She's always been an early riser. Before she started school she never slept beyond 6 which we found hard but do-able,. especially as she was having a nap then. Everyone told me that once she started school she'd be so tired we'd be waking her up for school. Ha! She's half way through Year 1 (as a August baby she's the youngest in her year) and has woken between 5.30 and 6 since starting school. Even worse, she has to come to us to tell us she's awake!
From 5pm until bed at 7 (if we're lucky, she will argue that the moon is square if it will get her another 10 minutes of being 'up'. She's often not asleep until 7.30, half an hour after lights out), she is bad tempered, argumentative and generally a complete pita. She's just so tired! How can we get her to sleep more? If it wasn't for the nightly meltdown I'd assume she was getting enough sleep but she could clearly do with another hour at least. Putting her to bed later doesn't help, in fact she often wakes up even earlier! She says she 'hates sleep', 'hates her bed' and that 'sleep is boring'. DH and I work ft so this is all quite exhausting for everyone, especially ds(3) as she regularly wakes him up too. 