Can anyone advise, please.
Eight year old DD, happy, healthy, bright, since the start of term has been staying awake till 10.30pm most nights, despite having a lovely calm slow bedtime routine (since forever). It coincides with going back to school (and there is now more homework). I think she just has a lot on her mind, and I hope that "this too shall pass" but in the meantime it just feels so wrong for her to be getting only 9 hours' sleep.
She is hard to wake and relatively grumpy in the morning (I wake her at 7.30am). Her behaviour is otherwise normal, and she simply says that she doesn't feel sleepy till then. She is going to bed at the same time as me! She's in her pyjamas from about 9pm, she is read to and then has the freedom to read to herself until she feels sleepy.
She does sport four times a week, walks two miles on school days, has a good diet, and apart from going back to school, nothing else has changed in her life. She seems to like her teacher and has nice friends. She doesn't appear anxious about anything except perhaps slightly bothered by the increased homework (though the work is not particularly difficult for her).
Surely she needs more sleep though???