5 year old all of a sudden taking ages to go asleep

newmum62

Hi all. My 5 1/2 year old used to always be asleep by 7.30/7.45. this year we stretched that to 8/8.30 as he's getting that bit older. He'd always go through til 7 am.

For the last month or so he has started taking ages to go asleep. It could be 10/10.30 most nights before he finally goes off resulting in a very tired grumpy boy the next day. He is up messing at silly things....looking out window, taking things off wardrobes and in & out of bed.

I know they can reduce sleep normally from age 6 but literally a 2 hour sleep drop overnight seems a bit much especially when he so tired every day...he obviously still needs the sleep. I've talked to him & he insisting nothing wrong or bothering him to stop him sleeping. Any thoughts?

Fathom

Interesting read: Acebo C, Sadeh A, Seifer R, et al (2005), Sleep/wake Patterns Derived from Activity Monitoring and Maternal Report for Healthy 1- to 5-year-old Children, SLEEP 28(12), pages 1568-1577.

New Home

This is probably silly but could it be just a matter of too much light in the room? Maybe some blackout blinds would help. Just an idea.

Fathom

Case-of-one. Hard to predict.