Halfpoint Images/Getty Images“Put. Your. Pajamas. On,” I snarl at my 5-year-old. It’s been 20 twenty minutes since we got upstairs to start the bedtime routine, and, once again, gentle parenting has failed me. Or maybe I’ve failed at gentle parenting. Whatever. Either way, I literally don’t have the energy to do it anymore.Here’s how the bedtime interaction is supposed to go (I think). She tells me she wants to keep playing. I tell her I know she must be frustrated that it’s time to go to bed and I know how she feels, and how about I set a timer for two minutes so that she can wrap up what she...

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