When I was a kid, my bedtime was usually 7pm up until I was about school age, then it was 8pm. This was most problematic for my parents during the summer because there was still daylight seeping in around the drawn windowshades. But even in the winter my brother and I would still be up for about 30 minutes to an hour talking and playing and just trying to wind down. It was even worse when we could hear them laughing at what was on the TV, and we would be really jealous that we couldn't be there watching with them.
I'm not sure that there's much you can do to make her fall asleep when you put her in bed, but she will fall asleep at some point. Trying to force her to sleep when she's not ready to do so is just going to make her frustrated and grumpy, I would imagine. But if you don't constantly check on her, she will still fall asleep. And if she's making noise, she may just be playing with stuffed toys (we did this a lot) until she falls asleep.
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Date: 2009-10-30 01:13 am (UTC)I'm not sure that there's much you can do to make her fall asleep when you put her in bed, but she will fall asleep at some point. Trying to force her to sleep when she's not ready to do so is just going to make her frustrated and grumpy, I would imagine. But if you don't constantly check on her, she will still fall asleep. And if she's making noise, she may just be playing with stuffed toys (we did this a lot) until she falls asleep.