Aimed at frustrated parents whose young children refuse to go to bed, Go the Fuck to Sleep was a bestseller before it hit the shelves in 2011. Much of the book's humour lies in its juxtaposition of profanity-laden poetry with illustrations of children and nature that would not be out of place in a typical children's picture book – the books that parents read repeatedly to satisfy their restless children. Although the writer is a father speaking from his experience, creating this in-joke nurtures an imagined community of any caregivers who suffer the same fate night after night. A combination of APPRAISAL analyses, both verbal (cf. Martin and White 2005) and visual (cf. Painter et al. 2013), provides evidence for the ways in which the book shows how the child takes the power role in the bedtime routine of middle-class households. Visual choices follow the typical format of children's bedtime stories, with the child increasingly at the centre of the images. Verbal evaluations show that, at first, parents deny their children the items or activities that they want but later concede to their demands. As the narrator becomes more frustrated and desperate, the evaluations move from the idea of a secure sleep for the child, to questioning the child's honesty, to denouncing his parenting skills. This paradoxical role-reversal in the book allows parents some relief from the guilt that they might be bad parents because of their nightly loss of authority over the child. However, it also foregrounds the ideological issues at stake at bedtime.

针对那些拒绝小孩子上床的沮丧父母，该死的入睡在2011年问世之前，它是一本畅销书。这本书的大部分幽默之处在于，其亵渎性诗歌的并置与儿童和自然的插图并列，在典型的儿童图画书（父母阅读的书）中不会错位反复满足他们躁动不安的孩子。尽管作者是一位父亲，但从他的经历讲起，创建这种笑话却养育了一个想象中的社区，该社区由一个日夜遭受同样命运的照料者组成。言语分析（参见Martin和White，2005年）和视觉分析（参见Painter等，2013年）的APPRAISAL分析相结合，为该书展示了孩子如何在孩子的就寝时间例程中发挥力量作用提供了证据。中产阶级家庭。视觉选择遵循儿童就寝时间故事的典型格式，孩子越来越多地处于图像的中心。口头评估表明，起初，父母拒绝给孩子他们想要的物品或活动，但后来又让他们同意了。随着叙述者变得更加沮丧和绝望，评估从对孩子安全睡眠的想法转变为质疑孩子的诚实，再到谴责其育儿技巧。书中这种矛盾的角色颠倒使父母可以免除内the感，因为他们一夜之间失去对孩子的权威，他们可能是不好的父母。但是，它也预示着就寝时面临的意识形态问题。随着叙述者变得更加沮丧和绝望，评估从对孩子安全睡眠的想法转变为质疑孩子的诚实，再到谴责其育儿技巧。书中这种矛盾的角色颠倒使父母可以免除内the感，因为他们一夜之间失去对孩子的权威，他们可能是不好的父母。但是，它也预示着就寝时面临的意识形态问题。随着叙述者变得更加沮丧和绝望，评估从对孩子安全睡眠的想法转变为质疑孩子的诚实，再到谴责其育儿技巧。书中这种矛盾的角色颠倒使父母可以免除内the感，因为他们一夜之间失去对孩子的权威，他们可能是不好的父母。但是，它也预示着就寝时面临的意识形态问题。