Wind down at bed time

Hi all how do you get your older ones to sleep at night? My daughter ends up taking nearly a hour to get to sleep at night we make sure we’re calm before bedtime she reads a story. But then her mind doesn’t switch off for example today we put her in bed at around 6:30 because she was very tired and I’m laid in my bedroom and she’s come in telling me about a cherry that’s in her pocket and that she wants a bobble tomorrow and it’s now 7pm.
She’s 5

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I would say it’s very early for a 5 years old to go to bed at 18.30, probs she’s not tired enough to be able to fall asleep x

Sounds pretty early for a 5 year old. What time does she wake up? Some children find it hard to wind down and they kind of keep going until they drop 😆

Being tired and being ready for sleep are not necessarily the same thing. Try delaying bed time slightly and see if it still takes the same amount of time to fall asleep, or if she ends ups falling asleep at the same time as before

My 7 year old had all tech off half hour before bed then we do bath supper teeth brushed and stories or if not a story we talk about our day for about 5 minutes then I put his tonies box on and leave the room

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