How old were your children when you went to bed before them?

[ChilliHobnobs]

My teens want to stay up far later than I do, it's so tempting to leave them to it!

Only recently but age 13 here

I think DS was about 14/15. I just want to make sure all the lights aren’t left on, door open etc. But frankly if I want to sleep, I sleep!

DD was 5yo... I was feeling really rough, Dh away with work and so she said she'd put me to bed and go to bed herself. I crawled in and she put me to bed exactly as I put her to bed, with all the cuddles, so much love and sympathy for being ill. Just as I was dropping off, she jumped up and said 'right, now its my turn mummy, come tuck me in'!
So cute, but think it will be a while before i get to go to bed first!!!

DH is already asleep but DS (12) is still up.

Around 13.

My eldest is 17 and I've only recently started going to bed before him.

13/14

15 in school holidays/weekends only.

Mine are 13 & 16 and at the weekends I pretty much say, “Don’t stay up all night” as I stumble into my bed at 10:00.

I do wake them at 10:30AM so they know better than to stay up all night!

Shift working so it’s always been a juggling act.

Same here 13/14

Dd age 9 is a real night owl. I often leave her to it if she doesnt need to be up early the next day, but i make sure she is in her room and ready for bed before i go to bed myself. On school nights she generally goes the same time as me.

13 I suppose. His desire to stay up late seems to have coincided neatly with my desire to go to bed early- it's like a sort of Darwinian evolution in real time

I get up at 4am so in bed for 9pm. Dh works opposite shifts so it's my 11 yr old dd who tucks me in

13/14 I think, much more frequent now as DS is 17, he’s out now, DH already gone to bed & I am haeding for a bath. Worse thing is that he is not exactly quiet when he comes in & usually wakes us up.

Ds1 is 12 and dd 15 and they sometimes stay up after me. They don’t stay up too late though so it’s not a problem. I’m not sure what I’m going to do when ds2 is that age. He’s always been a late sleeper since newborn he’d still stay up all night given the chance I’m going to have to be packing him off to bed before I go when he’s the same age I think.

13 I'd say. It's just recently happened.

I have been known to go to bed and leave DD (11) and DH up if they are watching something. They are night owls. I am not. If DH is away, DD and I will come to bed at the same time and I will fall asleep before she does. Not quite got to the point of leaving her downstairs yet when I come up and I don't think she'd want to but it won't be long as I just can't stay awake.

13 seems to be the age for it. Glad I read this thread as I've been feeling a like a rubbish parent for abandoning DS. My parents were such night owls I don't think I ever stayed up later than them!

It happens now with the 12yo in the school holidays.

13/14 does seem to be the age then - though I think I won't be doing it on school nights.

I'm tired long before my 7 year old and bedtime is usually a battle