2 1/2 Year old - Will not settle at night

[ClaireMc]

Please help, my 2 1/2 little boy goes to bed between 7 and 7.30pm and can often still be playing in his room until 10.30pm. He has always had a bath followed by story routine and seems happy to get in bed but then gets out and plays. Any advice would be great as he is grotty in the morning when we need to get him up. Please Help!!

Does he have a daytime nap - if he does cut it out.

Or, maybe he needs more exercise to tire him out.

Star charts when he goes to bed and stays there.

You just need to sort his routine out.

It doesn't seem to make any difference if he has a nap or not. And we have tried giving him lots of exercise. I did just start a star chart so I will see how that goes. Thanks