Children's Book That Makes Kids Fall Asleep In Minutes Becomes No. 1 Bestseller

By R. Siva Kumar - 23 Aug '15 18:08PM

One Amazon reviewer explained: "The first time I read this to my 2-year-old, she fell asleep in under 20 minutes. I have already recommended this book to all my friends with kids. Simply amazing."

How is one book responsible for children sleeping?

A book called "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep," written by a psychologist, Swedish author and behavioral scientist, Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin, makes children want to sleep, thanks to science, according to upworthy.

"The tale gives suggestions to the child's unconscious mind to sleep," Ehrlin says on the book's site. "The Rabbit who wants to fall asleep works perfectly either at naps during daytime or home at night, in a group or alone."

Why do children resist sleep? It's mostly because they may be too tired. First, we must understand why kids have trouble drifting off. Often, the child is completely exhausted, yet too anxious to fall asleep. "They're afraid of going to bed, so they fight their sleepiness and become hyper or restless," says Umakanth Khatwa, MD, director of the sleep laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital, according to yahoo.

There are some sleepy characters like Uncle Yawn as well as a special language pattern that has been used throughout. That may give hints to something, definitely.

Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin claims to use a series of "powerful psychological techniques" to encourage drowsiness. Certain text is bolded, which the reader is to emphasize, and italics indicate enunciation. The reader and child are also supposed to yawn at promoted points in the story and the child's name can be subbed into indicated brackets, according to yahoo.

A survey by Worlds Apart shows that parents tend to lose on an average 16 nights of sleep per month in the first three years during a child's life. Moreover, one in six parents have lost a lot of sleep---the most by the time they shift their baby from a cot to the "first big bed".

Moreover, it does rope in millions of readers onto Google and other social sites. So the book has multiple uses.