DD has just started reception and I was told to expect her to be really tired.
She is a bit spent after school and generally wants to come straight home to watch TV and play quietly. She's on great form and we, and her teachers, agree all is going as well as possible. No behavioural issues whatsoever.
But she is falling asleep at 10pm and is really tired in the mornings.
She's always been the first to drop naps, never needed masses of sleep but this is so late.
She has the same bedtime routine as ever - dinner, play, bath, books, lights out. But after lights out she is just full of chat and energy. I lay with her as she falls asleep but she just doesn't fall asleep!
I don't know whether to just accept that she needs less sleep than other kids or what?
I am loathe to force her to the park for exercise or to stop laying with her as I feel she has enough going on with the start of school
But I am worried....