What meds and why? Your cart is WAY before your horse. There are not meds for behavior that adults do not like, that is what dicipline is for, Meds are for children with Nuerological disorders that cause a very specific set of behaviors that are evaluated by a team of doctors, psycholgists, neuropsychologists, and therapyists of many types, and when they have behavior that is caused by medical issues, neurological issues, they can be helped by medication. Do you have any other issues other than her being loud sometimes, not wanting to go to bed so early, some arguing, and not wanting to get up in the morning? Your teacher has said that she is great at school, and if this were a global issue, you would be seeing it at school as well as home, and frankly, you just never, ever, ever medicate a child with a "global" medication when the problem is not global. Put that out of your discussion, ulness there is a whole lot more to this story that involves teachers, care givers, and you suspecting that your duaghter has a neurological issue that requieres evaluation. Evaluation is first...even if she has a neurological issue, you have no idea if medication is appropriate without having her evaluated first.
Maybe she is not sleepy at 7:30? I have kids who have issues sleeping (they have evaluations, and needed medications) and putting them to bed earlier and punishing them was not going to make them sleepy if they were not. If I were you, I would be rewarding her for not sassing off to you and for being quiet when it was necessary by letting her earn time to stay up a little later. You have her currency= she does not want to go to bed...you have her problem= she argues with you and she is loud sometimes, so reward her with what she wants for what you want, and let her earn it. She can earn quiet time in her room to color or draw after 7:30 if she does not argue. Give her until 8:30 to stay up quietly, then take 5 minutes away for each time she argues, or each time she is loud. Her choice. Take away a half hour the next night if she comes out after 8:30. At 8:30, get her a drink to take with her, make her go to the rest room, and ask if she is hot or cold, give her a fan to turn on herself if she is hot, and an extra blanket to get for herself if she is cold. Tell her that she is only allowed to come out if she is really sick, and by sick, you mean that you had better see blood, vomit or a fever on the themoeter, or she loses a half hour, and tell her that you will always know when she is fibbing, you can see it in her eyes, and she just better not try. It works.
None of what you are saying sounds like anything more than a typcial active 6 year old. Tell those around you, and yourself, that the meds discussion is rediculous. It just does not work like that anyway. So many people have a huge misconception that they can waltz into a pediatricians office and spend five minutes complaining about thier kids behavior, and walk out with a prescription. Identifying neurological disablities is a long process that involves many people, hours and hours of evaluations of many kinds, and a long invloved report with numbers and terms that must be explained to the parents in a sit down hour or more long appointment after weeks of appointments and waiting. After all that, some kids will benefit from medication for very specific issues that are neurlogical, but expressed in behavioral terms. Attention and focus, sleep, depression, mania, tics, siezures, aggitation, anger, anxiety...all are issues that are commonly treated with meds for kids who have neurological disablities. Meds do not come first.
M.