Is anyone else's Reception child still tired?

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In January DD1 didn't want to go to any of her friends' houses anymore to play (having previously been happy to go anywhere with anyone) and now she pretty much wants to come home and watch tv/draw. This week she even wants to miss her 'favourite things in the whole wide world': ballet and swimming.

I have an older DS but he isn't NT so I'm not really sure what is normal. Is this? I'm quite happy for her to be like this btw, just wondering ...

My DD2 has SN and has a nap in school about 2 or 3 days a week!

She is exhausted - school is really hard work for her.

That must be hard Riven - DD is hard work when she hasn't napped. Mind you I don't know if 'naps' is the right word for it, apparently she just keeps going at school until they find her flaked out in the book corner or under a table!

DD was shattered until the second term of year 1. Just to encourage you ...

DS has been full time at school since September and still gets tired sometimes. I think he throws himself into it a lot and especially by the end of the week is worn out.

my dd started reception in Jan, he gets tired(not enough to nap) and is very grumpy and argumentative when she gets home from school. All she does is watch tv and draw! She's very keen on the drawing part and often writes lots too. She does annoy play with her brother aswell. She doesn't do any after school things atm as i thought it'd be too much for both her and I, and poor ds who gets dragged about anyway!

From what the other mums says it's perfectly normal(if there's such a thing!)

dd3 has been full time since January and she's still very tired and grumpy after school. She is one of the youngest (still only 4 and a half) so I'm not surprised. We dropped her swimming so she just does ballet on a Wednesday.

Yes my dd2 is still very tired. She is a July baby so she's one of the little ones. She still loves school which is the main thing!

ds was fine but the week back after half term he was absolutely shattered!!

This time last yr dd1 was in reception, like yours she did ballet and swimming, and yes she was knackered.
She went down with a virus last March and we're still feeling the knock on effects of that now. So, personally, I think that yr R is tough on such young children.

my ds is one of the oldest in his reception class and he is most def tired by weds..shattered/pale by fri.

(he does get up at six am every day though...sometimes earlier)

Ds 1 also went down with a form of glandular fever last april and hasn't been right since. Only now has he got energy, has grown and isn't absolutely shockingly tired all the time.

He does a reduced timetable (offered to all reception children at ds's school) in that he doesn't do wed afternoons as this is for the children to go and have tea at each other's. We'll miss this in the summer term as it stops then.

Ds goes to bed at 6pm, used to be 7 but he couldn;t cope and would become teary and not able to function let alone concentrate.

He doesn;t have telly after school just comes in reads and then plays till tea then story and bed so no time for any afterschool activities but until he copes with the days his sleep has to come first.

Could you do a reduced timetable for a few weeks? Bring forwad bedtime?

DD1 couldn't handle any after school clubs in Reception. We managed occasional playdates, but not clubs. Bringing bedtime forward to 6:30 helped, but she honestly only really got into her stride sometime during Year 1. July birthday.

I wish. Up at between 6 or 7am, at school for 8am. Home by 6.15pm, homework etc then bath,bed at 7.30-7.45. First two weeks were tough but since then he isn't tired at all. We even do a swimming class on a Friday evening - I'm the one that is shattered for that. He spends loads of time running around at school so not sure where he gets his energy from. Just wish he'd share some with me

So pleased to hear this is 'normal'. I keep trying to bring bedtime forward but events always push it back. DD1 is trying to keep up with DS I think but he's well into his stride now in year 2 and he only needs 9/10 hours sleep.

Yes,and he is one of the older ones.No after school stuff except homework and occasional playdate.He stays up at w/e but usually in bed between 7-7.30 and up at 6.30-7 schooldays.

dd is 3 with sn and is in that inbetweEny growing out of naps stage and is absolutely knackered by 6pm!Though the light nights are waking her at 6 AM AAARGHHHH

My DD aged 4 has been in reception since september. She has activities every night after school(swimmingx2,dancing,ballet,trampolining)
She is up at 6am EVERY morning and is still smiling when she goes to bed at 7pm. She is not shattered but I certainly am!!

My DS is a summer born child and for him the tiredness was much worse in the first term of year one...it really took all his energy to keep up. The school got the best of him - he came home from school in a furious mood everyday. We dropped lots of activities and Term 2 has been much better.

Really feel they go to school when they are much too young - but that's another thread entirely!

Ummm. DD (7, Yr 2) has just had the most horrific afternoon full of meltdowns, culminating in the full frothing at the mouth business because her grated cheese had been grated on the wrong size of grater hole.

Did I say she had stopped being so tired by Year 1? I take it back.

y8 DS still falls asleep sometimes on the way home from school despite having a seriously uncool bedtime!