preschooler-mom's need your advice!

Well I can suggest a few things to help. At night whatever time you want her to go to bed and sleep set up a routine before hand. Where she gets ready, maybe has a quiet time before hand. A time when she watches a movie or something else that is quiet and calm. Let her know about 20 or 30 minutes before hand how long she has till bed. I would suggest since she's not falling asleep till almost 9pm making her bedtime closer to 8pm instead of 7. Now you could if she has a tv or similar in her room have her go to bed at 7pm to watch a movie or something that she will fall asleep to. In the mornings whatever time you want her up by wake her up 30 minutes before hand. Let her know she can get up then or she can have 30 more minutes. Give her the choice. Doing that can really make a difference with kids. Letting them feel like they have some control. As for breakfast she might not be hungry when she first wakes up. I know many kids that way, including myself. I would get hungry around lunch time. Offer something light like toast that way if she's a little hungry she'll eat but won't feel like she's leaving a lot left over afterwards. Hope that helps.

I make sure that in the afternoon or at night, my toddler will have nothing that more or less have sugar on it...even juice coz usually it prevents her from sleeping early. Just like tonight...she had a mango juice and she is like a jumping bean. More or less, the routine helps and for now that she is not yet at school, I let her sleep as long as she wants so I can have a little me time in the morning.

some kids are just really slow warmers in the morning, no matter what time they go to bed at night. My daughter was always like this when she was younger, and now that she's twelve, she's still the same way. It's hard for her to get motivated and moving in the morning, so I've had to start earlier with waking her up. IT's hard because that means you're getting up earlier too, but if you could wake her slowly, sort of like a zen alarm clock, where you take the thirty minutes to wake her up, but do things in ten minute intervals. Wake her--leave the light on, go start breakfast, come back in ten minutes and give her another gentle prompting--go get dressed, come back in five minutes and give the third general prompt with the promise that in five minutes it will be time to get up and get ready. Patience is so difficult when you've got to get up and get going in the morning, but it won't last forever. Before you know it, she won't want you to wake her up. She'll want to do it all by herself!!