What is the best bedtime for a 1st grade 6 yr old. She catches the bus at around 8 am and gets home arond 4 pm and has home work every evening. I feel she is so tired she has a hard time even getting through her homework each evening. Several months ago when she was on 30 Adderal in the am and 20 Adderal in the afternoon after school the Dr. said to put her to bed at 10 pm because we were haveing trouble with her getting up at night and playing in the night. We were also having behavior problems. The school was doing fine with work just in the last few months they were beginning to have behavior problems of not listening. So the Dr. took her off the afternoon medicine and put her on a medicine that would help with the behavior 1 mg but it made her sleep by near lunch time and the first day back she feel asleep in the morning. So we called the Dr. and he change the medicine until 1 hr before bedtime. The behavior had changed for the better. But I feel she should be going to bed at around 8 pm. ( I am the Grandmother and I have her on the weekends and some holidays I have helped raise her until a yr ago when her father remarried.) He feels she should still go to bed at 10 pm because the Dr. said so a few months ago but she falls asleep sometimes doing homework and he thinks she does it to get out of doing homework. I copy everything I can get that pertains to ADHD and what she is going through and I have ordered the Magazine I read it first and then give it to him. He had hyperativity while growing up going through school and still has it he took medicine while going to school and has stopped taking it in adulthood. The little girls mother also has some kind of problem and was in a special class in school and is supposed to be on some kind of medicine but refuses to take it in adulthood so I do not know what she has. But at least our Son sees that his daughter needs to be on medicine to function in school they found it in first grade in daycare they did not tell us afraid they would hurt our feelings and after we talked to them when she was in Kindergarten they talked to us and I told them they need to tell the parents so they can get the help sooner we knew we needed help because it took 3 adults to keep up with her but when our son was little when I went to his Dr. he acted like I was crazy util he got in school and the school said unless he got on medicine he could not come back to class because he was disturbing the class and not staying in his seat ,Etc. I knew what I went through with her father and I knew hers was like his but someomething was a little different. But my question is the bedtime.

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