What time does your child go to sleep on a school night?

[MyChildDoesntNeedSleep]

My son is 9 and apparently the only one in his class who goes to sleep before 10pm on a school night. On weekends 'everybody else' stays up until midnight.

In an ideal world I would like to see him in bed by 8pm on a school night. He takes ages to drop off to sleep (I mean when you tell him he can read for half an hour in bed and forget to go up to turn off his light he's still reading when you go upstairs to go to the loo at 10pm .)Most nights its usually lights off by 8.30pm.

My 6 year old is in bed by 8pm on a good night. Quite often it's 8.15-8.30 as I find it hard juggling the two bed times and he keeps getting out of bed and I basically need to get more organised. Ideally I would like to see him in bed by 7.30.

Could we have a school night bedtime roll call?

Just put your child's age and bedtime.

I want to show my 9 year old this thread so he can believe me that the ones who say they go to bed at 10pm are probably not telling the truth........

[alittlebitshy]

dd is 8 and has lights out at 7.45 (but she has to be up by 7 am)

[LawrieMarlow]

DD is very nearly 6 and starts going to bed about 7:30pm I read to her and she is generally asleep by about 8:30

DS is 7 and starts going to bed about 8pm. I read to him and then he goes to sleep. Not sure exactly when but pretty sure he is asleep now.

[curlyredhair]

7 and 3 - 7pm
Later at weekends, maybe up to 9pm if they're good.

[festi]

other children lie about bed time always have and always will.

your mum has a regular bed time for you because she is a good mum and cares about you and wants yiou to be well rested ready to learn and grow and develop into a very healkthy strong young young man

BTW my nephew is 9 and goes to bed 8pm and has half hour reading lights off at 8.30pm.

[katedan]

I am really interested in this post as recently friends have shown surpise as to how early we put DS to bed, he really seems to need his sleep but wonder if letting him to read in bed later would be OK.

DS is 8 and goes to bed at 7.30
DT's are 4 and in bed at 7.

[HandsOffOurLand]

DS 9 - it's nine o'clock by the time he's come home, done homework and music and eaten, so he's normally asleep by around 10 (though sometimes later). But he never seems tired. He gets up at 6.20 for school.

DD 7 - lights out at around 7.45, but I can hear her chattering to her toys until more like 9. So long as she stays put and keeps her light out, I don't interfere.

[CrackerFactory]

DD 9 in bed for 8.30 but frequently found reading till far too late.

DS 7 in bed for 8 latest and asleep soon after

[PatriciaHolm]

DCs are 5.5 and 7 this week, and they are in bed by 8. DS then usually drops off quickly, DD reads for 30 mins or so. They are both then awake around 7.30. I don't mind an hour or so later at weekend, but any later and they are dropping!

[EyeoftheStorm]

2 - 7pm - thumb in, bit of music, asleep.
5 - 7.15pm - asleep when head hits pillow.
7 - 8pm - does a weird game with his fingers and asleep (most nights).

About half an hour later on weekends.

[Bonkerz]

Ds age 11 in bed at 8pm
Dd age 5 in bed at 7pm
Ds2 age 4months in bed at 6:30pm.
All sleep till 6:30/7:00am!!

[MrsSnaplegs]

Dd 6 tomorrow bed by 7 asleep by half past on a school night an hour later at weekends

[chillikate]

DS almost 5. In bed 6.30-7.00 and asleep within minutes.

[livinonaprayer]

DC 4, in bed 6.30...asleep in minutes!
DC 6, bed around 7, varies how long it may take to go to sleep but not usually after 8.
DC 8, bed approx 8 and reads for approx half an hour. He stays up a bit at weekends because he sleeps in whereas the other are generally up at 6 regardless so their bedtimes remain the same!

[MyChildDoesntNeedSleep]

festi Thanks for that!

herecomesthesciencebint how old is DS1?

Keep them coming, guys...this is really interesting!

[Lilyloo]

dd 3 7 (on a good night)
dd2 6 7.30
ds 9 8.30 (to read for half an hour)

[IwishIwasmoreorganised]

DS1 is 5 - he's in bed by 7pm

DS2 is 3 and just started half days at school. He's asleep by 6.15 atm!

[yellowkiwi]

DS is nearly 7 and goes to bed at 8.30. He finds it hard to get to sleep and eventually goes off about 9.15 if I'm lucky. He does sleep until about 8 in the morning though. No different at weekends unless there is a special reason.

[irrationalfury]

Bedtime and sleeptime aren't usually the same. Mostly down to the smaller DCs who are in nursery and reception and both have an hour's nap 4-5pm (or else they are completely hysterical all afternoon and evening), then go to bed around 8.30. They are still awake now, which is unusual.

DC1 is nearly 10 and he goes to BED at 8.30 (unless he's had karate in which case it's 9), and usually gets to sleep quickly unless he's sharing a room with one of the younger DCs.

They seem to wake up around 7.30am, DC3 (who stays awake the longer), often later.

[verybusyspider]

ds 5 - 7pm if he makes it but any time from 6.30pm
ds 3 - 7pm
ds 2 - 7pm

When I was little we were all in bed at same time, the older we were the longer we got to read for

[pchick]

Ds 2 is often awake after ds 1 as needs less sleep. Ds 2 usually is asleep by 9 pm, although is in bed a lot earlier 8pm). Ds2. Is 9.

[Marne]

Both of mine go to bed at 7pm, but dd1 (7) is starting to say her friends stay up until 10pm , tonight she went to bed at 8pm as she had brownies and was still arguing that it was too early.

[tortoisefairy]

DS1 is 5, asleep by 7.30
DS2 is 3, asleep by 7
DS3 is 1, asleep by 6.30

[weegiemum]

DD1 (11, primary 7 = y6) Bed 9, lights out 9.30

Ds (9, primary 5 = y4) Bed 8.30, lights out 9.00

DD2 (7, primary 4 = y3) Bed 8.00, lights out 8.30

Older 2 are "old" for their age in school, youngest is "young".

I'm horribly strict but glad every morning at 7.30!!

[zipzap]

I can still hear ds1 (6) and ds2 (3) talking now - 10pm
They have been in their pjs from about 7.30, maybe 8pm. they have been quite good at staying in their room tonight but some nights they will be up and down like yo-yos - and they still manage to wake up when they are supposed to at 7.30am if not earlier.

DS2 is the worst - ds1 will usually peg out first and ds2 will carry on being awake for another hour or so, sometimes still carrying on playing the game they were playing on his big brother's bed, using his brother as an extra mountain to drive the cars over or as a book rest to look at books - luckily ds1 sleeps through this!

Would love them to fall asleep earlier. my mum is forever suggesting different tactics and saying about how my sis gets all her 3 dds to bed by 7pm - maybe 7.30 for the eldest (8). She just doesn't believe I've tried everything but if the boys aren't tired then they aren't tired.

So far ds2 has fallen asleep early (pre 8pm) on about 5 occasions in the last couple of years - so you can imagine I treasure those evenings quite highly. Couldn't believe that one of them was one of the few times that my mum was babysitting for us so she didn't have to go through the experience of them being so awake for hours [grrrrr]

so if you do find a reliable way of making them go to sleep early I'd love to know! Most of their friends (according to their mums) do fall asleep between 7 and 8, only one other was regularly asleep at about 9-10... thinking the mums might be a more reliable source of info about actual class bedtimes!!