My daughter does that now that I have been working late...she thinks that it's okay to wait up for me. But when I don't work late I enforce her going to bed around 7:30 or 8pm.

Also, because she doesn't get enough rest at night she doesn't want to get up for school and she's tired. So therefore, we're both late to school...

What I've been doing is setting small and cheap rewards for goals...one that we have is if we get to school 15 minutes early for the both of us, then we would go for pizza. Cici's is what we have here and it's cheap. She loves it.

Also, if she goes to bed on time, then at the end of the month we'll go to a movie or rent some movies...have a friend over.

We've been doing it for a few months now, and oftentimes at the end of the month she'll just say she would like to stay up until 10 on a Friday night...which is priceless. Or extra 30 minutes on tv time or something of that nature.

We do not do rewards often and especially for things that should be done already, but it's almost to a point where she's tired and she wants to go to sleep. We are exercising more...parks in the afternoon, walks around the lake, etc.

Thanks ShaeN will give that a try. I used the reward system when I was toilet training,so it should work again. Just have to get creative wont I.

That's true...creativity always works..my daughter was tired tonight and she's sleep! Thank goodness. No, but she's usually a good girl.

Tried the reward thing. We were in the supermarket and he asked for a Pez despencer thingy. So I said If I buy this for you, you have to go to bed at what ever time I tell you with no arguements. He went to bed and was asleep before 10pm. So if I bring the time back little by little and keep thinking of things to reward him with. I think it might just work.

Have been doing ok this week with getting him to bed. Last night I had him asleep by 8.40pm. I've started a new bedtime routine and working on a reward chart with him. Will just have to keep being consistent and trying new things when all else fails. But at the moment cross fingers he continues to improve with his sleeping. He's noticed this week that he's keeping up in class and not yawning as much in class.

Hey, that's great keep it up! That's one thing we've always had luck with our kids have always gone to bed by 7:30. It actually was 7 when we only had our oldest daughter, but with three kids now that gets too hard to do.