DD1 (4.9) is exhausted: dark circles, pale face, snappy, arsey, no energy the whole shebang.
She will not go to sleep before 10-10.30, wakes at 7/7.30, and it's just not enough sleep for her.
We put her to bed around 7 every night with a v similar routine-supper, wee, bath/sink wash on alternate nights, teeth, pyjamas, stories, prayers, music, gro clock, night light on, kisses, out of the door.
She dicks around with her toys/books/gymnastics across the floor/sometimes just lying there til 10-10.30. We go in to check every 30 mins or so.
I've asked & asked what the matter is-it ranges from: monsters (we move the scary stuff from her room-bookcase, charlie & Lola poster, etc. I spray room w monster go away spray, I tell her how much we love her & how monsters can't come near mummy & daddy love etc etc) )
'I just want to play' we tell her not time to play, if she chooses to play she loses tv time the next day.
'I want you with me' so I sit quietly in her room and lose a chunk of my evening and she's still awake.
But none of this really works, she stays awake until she passes out with exhaustion.
No major changes in her life, dd2 is 15 months & still in our room, (v wakeful, teething, 2 bed flat) and I know she finds that hard, we've talked about it.
What do I do, because it's seriously beginning to tip me over the edge. She just finds it funny. Is it the attention? If so, what do I do? It's making her a tired crosspatchy
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4 year old not going to sleep, ANY ideas?
kohl · 17/06/2015 22:10
Maybe we need to put the black out blinds up again, skoda, I guess i gave up on them because it seems to make the room so hot. She does lots of walking, scooting, ballet, swimming, general running around...
twisted I'm sure, at some level, she does feel left out, particularly as I'm breastfeeding DD2, but we've tried having her in our bed & she just will not sleep, also as it's the getting to sleep, I worry about her & DD2 in the same room without us at 7/8 and DD1 waking up DD2.
Just getting to that shit stage of taking it really personally & feeling like it's never going to get better because I am a terrible mother.
Remove toys and books, but encourage comfort from cuddly toys.
Put blackout blind up.
Don't keep going back in each 30 mins, don't get into habit of sitting with her and definitely no mattresses on bedroom floor-ridiculous.
I am harsh though 
but had two good sleepers.
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