Getting toddler to sleep after a day at nursery!!

[ElleOhElle]

DD2.4 is normally a pretty good sleeper. She goes down by 7pm and normally gets herself off to sleep without too much trouble except on nursery days!!??
She does a long day twice a week 8am-6pm. Normally has a nap about 1 or 2 hours long but comes home absolutely wired!! She is sooo excited about telling me about nursery that I cannot get her to sleep. I do the same routine as normal and tried variations but nothing settles her down. I know it's because she's over tired and over excited but how do I settle her down?
I've tried baths, milk, stories, cuddles, rocking but nothing seems to calm her.

Any ideas??

Watching with interest - my 2.2 yo DD is exactly the same.

Do you put your LO to bed anyway? she's been up there for over an hour jabbering away! not crying though!

If she is happy in bed just chatting, I would definitely leave her to it. Are the nursery maybe allowing her to sleep longer than at home? Not unheard of - I speak from experience

My DS is the same but we have it 5 days a week. Come to think of it he is the same at weekends. Hasn't had a daytime nap in a couple of years.

she'w perfectly happy just not falling asleep. she normally sleeps less at nursery than at home -she normally does 2hrs at home whereas at nursery it's more like 1-1.5hrs, occasionally 2hrs.

I should say she's happy enough tonight but last night was a different story. just kept going up and down to settle her.

We have downtime in front of the tv after nursery, might that switch her brain off?

I've tried in the night garden but the tv is in the same room as her toys so she just runs about with all them. maybe I'll try putting the tv in our bedroom on so she could sit in our bed for a while to calm down without the toys as a distraction?

We've tried all sorts of bedtime routines, including just putting her to bed. Starts off happy, playing with cuddly toy, then gets more excited - bouncing up & down, singing etc, then she gets grumpy & upset. TV before bed doesn't seem to help, can't get her to sit still long enough to watch anything. Not normally asleep before 9.30 on nursery nights.

Both mine are like that. It's like they think they need a full day with mum and dad at home on top of nursery day. Perhaps when they're home all day they're bored enough to go to sleep earlier?

She finally went off just before 9!

catkind I think you've got a point - she's even worse if daddy is home when she gets in. It's lovely that she's excited to see us but she really needs her sleep!

We're having a similar issue. On nursery days our 3yr old doesn't sleep. It's 11pm & he's still trotting around wanting to play. He was always a great sleeper - down at 8pm then slept through in his own bed. Now I'm happy if it's 10pm.
On other days he's not as bad providing I get him out in the fresh air in the day .
Really frustrating