Hi Ladies,

I am hoping some of you on here have some suggestions and support. My daughter is starting JK in a few weeks. She is ready, she turned 4 in march she is social and I fully expect she will run in and never look back.

She sleeps a LOT and I am not quite sure the best plan for prepping her for school in regards to sleep. There is no way ever she will nap in JK. This child has yet to nap in a car, stroller or any where that she could possibly miss something. Even as an infant. She is however an amazing sleeper, in a bed away from the action.

She currently sleeps 14hrs a night. Typically 6pm-8am. When up later she pretty much just shifts and wakes 14hrs later (even if that is at 12noon). Awesome when for a stay at home child...not so awesome when she needs to be at the bus stop for 8am.

I literally start our suppers at 4:30 these days, when the DC kids leave at 5:15 she goes up for bed routine. But once she is in school I just don't see it being possible to have her in bed that early. I definately can't see having her in bed (asleep) by 5pm to allow her the 14hrs sleep she likes.

So, next week I will begin setting her alarm clock for 7am and having her get up, make bed, get dressed, eat and all that and be ready to be at the bus stop for 8am. To have her practiced and in routine for that.

Am I best to also have her stay up until a reasonable time so she is used to getting less sleep now before she starts? I expect we can have her in bed for 6:30 once she is in school. Or should I have her in bed for 5pm now while I am home with her and then just change that once she is in school?

Suggestions? She really doesn't do that well with less sleep, I notice signs of overtiredness pretty quick when we interfere with her 14hrs. But, she really will have to learn to make do with less :-(

Oh, I cut out naps about 5 months ago when she was able to make it without and she just moved her 2 hr nap time to her usual night sleep and hasn't adjusted to less sleep since.