Long story but basically dd is regularly missing lessons or arriving late at 6th form. I just want to get some ideas/others' experiences for how to deal with this.
I think all is ok at school - she has lots of friends, normally enjoys her subjects apart from the usual "school is boring" moans, and she doesn't get too stressed by the workload or difficulty. She goes out with friends and has interests, though she does spend a lot of time on youtube/social media or sleeping and she is totally lazy, which seems quite normal for a teenager?
I've tried asking her if something is wrong but she says no, so I've tried laying down the law & telling her to leave on time and, on the days I've not left for work before her, I wake her up, tell her when she needs to leave, etc. She just doesn't take any notice e.g. if she needs to leave at 8, I'll wake her up about 7 then go in a couple more times to check she's not gone back to sleep, but she just says "yeah yeah" and eventually will leave aabout 8.15 and get to school late.
I've tried leaving her to organise herself and she is the same except sometimes later - she might get up at 8.15 get dressed and go to school 5 mins later looking half asleep without even brushing her hair. She says she's tired but I suggest she goes to bed earlier but she won't have that because "she's a night person". Which is all very well but I think night people need to find ways to function in the mornings because that's how the world works?
She rarely eats breakfast and will buy a pack of biscuits and eat those when I've told her dinner is ready in 10 mins, so then she isn't hungry for dinner. I think she needs to eat a better diet, but on the whole she's pretty healthy - she'll eat fruit and veg and she usually goes to zumba twice a week, so she does look after herself in some ways.
I don't really know what to do. I am worried she'll mess up her A levels and that will have implications for what she can do with her life. I don't know if it's a teenage/rebellious thing not wanting to conform to authority either me or at school, but I also wonder if she's depressed - but then sleeping late could just be a normal teenage thing? I really need some ideas for what to do.