A mother couldn’t help but laugh when her husband sent her a video showing how bedtime went with their youngest son.

Daisy Hipsher of Knoxville, Tenn., reacted to what her son Thomas insisted his father let him sleep in — and it wasn’t his bed.

Bedtime can be a nocturnal battle for millions of parents trying to make sure their children get a good night’s sleep. In a survey of 1,000 mums and dads with school-aged children, carried out by OnePoll on behalf of toothbrush manufacturer Firefly, 77 per cent of respondents said they were exhausted by the daily challenge of raising their children to go to bed.

The time spent getting children to sleep can really add up too. The same study found that it eats up close to three hours a week, or 140 hours a year.

As a mother of five, Hipsher knows the anxiety a difficult bedtime can cause for everyone involved. However, that didn’t stop her from finding the humor in the dilemma her husband faced, trying to get Thomas to sleep.

She shared on social media the photos he sent her of the standoff. In it TikTok video, a visibly frustrated Thomas can be heard telling his dad, “I’m not going to sleep in there,” while pointing in the direction of his bed.

“Where are you going to sleep?” his father is heard asking. “In there,” Thomas replies, pointing in the direction of a box with a blanket in it.

While the box certainly fits the description of cozy, it doesn’t look like the kind of place where Thomas could enjoy a comfortable, uninterrupted night’s sleep. To his credit, his father doesn’t seem to budge on the question, much to his son’s audible annoyance.

Newsweek reached out to Hipsher via TikTok for further comment.

Hipsher captions the clip, joking, “His mean dad told him he had to sleep in his big, comfy, full-sized bed instead of that little box.”

She wasn’t alone in finding her husband’s situation amusing. Many viewers on TikTok took to the comments section to share similar stories from growing up.

“My little brother had one the sleep phase in a box for months,” one user wrote. “So when he got his haircut he told the barber he sleeps in a box and my mom had to explain we weren’t homeless.”

Another said: “I had a phase of sleeping in a closed wicker laundry basket when I was little. It was amazing.” A third wrote: “For some reason my daughter will randomly sleep in a clothes basket. Pick your battles.”

Another user commented: “I went through a phase where I slept in my wooden toy box for MONTHS my mom didn’t care as long as I slept.”

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