6yo NOT TIRED at bedtime...

[CountessDracula]

Not sure what to do!

DD has never needed lots of sleep.
Everyone promised me when she started school she would change. She didn't.

She goes to bed at 8pm. She is almost always still awake at 9.45 (unless she is ill).

She isn't a problem per se. She stays in her room. When she is tired she calls down good-night to us.

Do I need to do anything?
I mean you can't force someone to sleep can you?!

She gets up fine in the morning and is not grumpy (usually!)

oh yes
she reads all 40 of the mr men and little miss books about 3x a week! She is a voracious reader.

I really think she doesn't need the sleep

Can she read to herself in bed, or listen quietly to an audio book perhaps?

Sadly some children don;t need a huge amount of sleep. My sister was like that as a child, still is now she is older TBH.

boring audio books? ipod?

the itunes store has lots of loooong ones - classics like Tom's Midnight Garden and the Secret Garden and the phoenix and the carpet etc

Chapter books might be more soporific - Mr Man books might be sucking the will to live out of her?

If she isn't tired and gets up fine in the morning, then I don't think there is much you can do.
My brother was like this- he was like a little robot- fall asleep at midnight, wake up 6am on the dot- he was like that from being quite young (Y1 or so).
The rules were- he had to stay in bed. Thankfully he loved reading, so he was allowed to read until he was tired then put the light off. He never had any problems getting up in the morning (unlike the rest of us... who were never allowed this regime )