If you have young children sharing a bedroom

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What is bedtime like? What do you do, can tou leave them to it once settled? They are 3 and 4. No option to not share. Room is big.

I put the 3 year old to bed, get him to sleep and then put the 5 year old to bed. Stories in our bed to keep them seperate. The 7 year old goes to bed when the 5 year old is asleep. 30 minute increments from 6.30 - 7.30.

Little 2 in the bath at 6pm. Big one in the bath at 6.30 as the little one is going to sleep.

Bedtime takes hours in our house

For a while they both went together for stories & bed, now they both get bathed & into jams, then little gets stories & when she’s asleep 4yo goes up.

But that’s when we’re both here. If only one, then they both get stories together.

Mine are 3 and 8 and have shared since the youngest was 5 months. Youngest goes to bed first, eldest reads a book, a bit of TV and goes up half an hour later. I have some nice time with the eldest then too.

I should have said, it's just me. Currently they go together and it's 50/50 as to who falls asleep first. But sometimes it's ages. I feel like I can't leave them in case they start buggering about. I've started popping in and out of the room.

What sort of bedtimes do your 3 to 5 yr olds have? Ours is getting ever later, they are sleeping in a bit but not enough to compensate for the late nights.

weve always had sharers (by choice) we just chuck them in and leave them to it. age gaps are 17mo or 2.5y. Currently 4 and 6yo share.

Sometimes they lark around, sometimes straight to sleep. I dont care as long as I can go downstairs :)

7pm bedtime, 8yo is half past since lockdown, if she is sleeping alone.

We have a 2yo and 3yo sharing so we do everything together but we do still have to sit in with them until they’re asleep - maybe half an hour on average. I’ve tried a few ways to go downstairs and leave them but it descends into chaos (usually led by my eldest). They’re usually asleep by 7

The 3yo goes at 7.00 ordinarily. But in the current circumstances it’s more like 7.30

We have a 3yr old and just turned 7yr old who share as we have no other option. The 7yr old typically goes into bed after the 3yr old is asleep, but tonight shes being a little madam and repeating that shes not tired and wonr go to sleep. But that's another thread!

We have the same age gap as you, they are now 4 and 5. They get separate baths now as too much messing/bickering. I usually get one dried while other plays in Bath, our house is very small, rooms right next to eachother. Get second one out and dried and in pj's and downstairs for a couple of stories, supper and teeth. Both up to bed together, tuck them in and leave them to it. We're lucky in that usually my husband and me try to do bedtime together. One of us hangs out in our bedroom next door while the other reads downstairs with the oldest.

They usually chatter for about half an hour, sometimes yell for water or to go to the toilet again, but they fall asleep quickly enough once they get that bit of messing out of the way, they get up very early though, usually around 6 and insist on waking the other up. We don't keep toys in their bedroom though, just a few cuddlies each.

I have a 3y age gap and mine always went to bed at the same time and straight to sleep from ages 1&4 til 4&7, they started to mess about so 5yo goes up 7-7.30 and 8yo nearly 9 goes up once she's asleep between 8&8.30 which is a bit late but found he wasn't sleeping earlier anyway.
He reads between dd bedtime and his eother downstairs or in our bed.