Thanks for the advice. I will keep this in mind a few years from now when if I have a kid who has troubles falling asleep. I wouldn't have thought of so many possible reasons myself! :)

I have an 8 and a 5 year old. I have not really kept them on a schedule and now that they are both in school I am trying to get them on a bed time schedule and it is not working. They find every reason in the book to get up.. I am hungry. I need to use the restroom and so on. They will normally fall asleep about 2 hours after I get them in bed the first time. Do you have any ideas on how to get them to bed at 8:30? They will not need to get up until 6:30 for school. Please give me some ideas. I am going crazy at bed time now.

Thank you.

I hope things have gotten a bit better. My daughter does things like that and it makes me laugh. Sleep is boring? Eventually she will wear herself out (granted she is a challenge to be with in the mean-time.) As long as I can keep her settled enough that the rest of the family can still sleep when they need to it seems to resolve itself eventually. Good luck!

Help !! My 6 years old won't go to sleep. We have a very strict and same routine everyday. I will put her to bed at 7:30pm ( although I know she won't sleep at 7:30pm ) thinking she needs her down time say one hour and that will give her enough time to fall asleep at 8:30pm. But I'm wrong. So I try it with points system, awards system , sweet talk , soft talk ..........all failed. She has millions of excuses that you cannot imagine a 6 years old can find.
Really need help to get her to at least have 6 hours of sleep.

Thank you.