One time, we had two foster kids, a boy and a girl about 5 and 3. They missed their mommy and had trouble going to sleep. So I sang them to sleep with this little song that I made up. Since I made it up, I didn't sing it exactly the same the second night, they kept correcting me until I sang it exactly the same every night. It did work too, somehow singing put them at ease and they were able to drift off to sleep, sometimes I would hear little snores before I even finished.
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