9 Year Old Won't Sleep HELP!! My daughter has had a strict bedtime of 7p for all her life. She has always gone to bed at 7, read for an hour, and gone to sleep.

6 months ago, she started coming downstairs, crying, saying she can't sleep. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Sometimes 5 times a night. We have tried pushing her bedtime back to 8:30, lavender, melatonin, sound machine, removing the clock in her room. Nothing is working. We have now resorted to grounding her and taking away technology if she comes downstairs after bedtime. Still not working.

Is this a developmental stage? Is she testing her boundaries and our punishments? Are there mental or physical disorders that would cause a kid to not be able to fall asleep? We are at a loss right now on how to get her to just stay in bed at night.