Toddler bed wars inspires weary bestseller

IT’S A must for the baby shower gift list, but not the kind of publication the mother-in-law is likely to read to her grandchildren.

Go the F**k to Sleep, which is at the top of Amazon.com’s pre-order bestseller list, contains the sort of sentiment relevant to any parent for whom getting the kids to bed is a challenge up there with scaling Everest.

Conceived by a dad desperate to truncate the spun-out routines of bedtime, it spells out what many a frazzled parent has longed to shout at the little one, but instead bit his or her tongue and read the tenth bedtime story, or fifth cup of water or fourth visit to the bathroom or whatever else is dreamt up to in order to prolong the ordeal.