If your kids are 6 and 9 (ish), what does your evening look like?

[meringue33]

Think we need a clearer household position on bedtimes etc!

Dinner done by 6-6.30. They go up together to bath (9yo sometimes has shower instead), down stairs for fruit snack and some tv before bed. They usually arrive down at 7. Youngest brushes teeth at 7.30 and lights out 7.45. Eldest brushes teeth 8pm and story don't by 8.15. Can then read til 8.30. Lights out by 8.30.

We're done by 8.15 and rest of evening is ours. The 9 year old does wake early so we're wondering about a later bedtime although not sure how to keep him awake without more screen (he tends to fall asleep quite quickly as he's tired by 8!).

I have 6 and 9 year olds (and a 3year old) bath and into their rooms by 7pm. They all get time on devices/tv until 7.30ish then the 6 and 9 year olds get to read while I get the 3 year old off to sleep. Theyve figured out if they're quiet enough I'll forget (or fall asleep next to the 3 year old) and they get to stay up later but I like them asleep by half 8.

I have a 7 & 10 year old and they still go to bed with lights out at 7.30.

Neither have complained and they both have to be up at 6.30am as school starts early here, finishes at 2.30 and then they’re either at football or karate until 5.30.

Weekends they stay up late, probably 10pm earliest they go to bed.

I don’t intend on making bed time later until they stop needing 11 hrs sleep!

Got those exact ages here.
Eat around 530 normally. Eldest has an activity twice a week which means he may eat later sometimes.
They have fruit and a biscuit in front of the TV after dinner, then tidy up the play room. Whilst they do that I sort the kitchen/packed lunches and plate up DH and I dinner.
We all head upstairs around 630.
I get 6yo showered and hair washed, teeth cleaned and PJs, then he reads to me whilst eldest gets showered.
Then I read to 6yo, we’ve recently been reading books as a family so DH is normally coming in at this time, and we all reads chapter together.
DH then takes 6yo to bed and tucks in, lights off by 730 for him ideally. Eldest reads in his room until 845 then heads down for a quick kiss goodnight.
When DH takes youngest to bed I then heat up our dinner, after eating we do any quick jobs like bins then sit down for the evening normally about 815.
On days I work it’s similar but a bit later as DH doesn’t pick up from childcare until 6.
Fridays we all watch a TV programme together.
Saturdays movie night normally.

Are you having problems with your routine?

Mine are 8, 6 and 4.
Dinner, craft/play/tv, up for a bath at 6.30 ish.
Baths, school reading books, a story each and into bed.
4 yo has an audible while 8yo reads to herself. 6yo has other parent sit with him while audible.
When 4yo asleep (8/8.30ish), 8yo has audible.
The younger 2 are asleep 8/8.30.
8yo at 8.30/9.
They wake at 7ish.

6 & 9 year old here, and bedtime for the eldest is tricky. On nights when they don't have Cubs/Beavers, we eat at 6 then it's east her baths or we play a board game, do a puzzle or something similar. Usually upstairs by 7.30, and bigger one reads to himself while younger one has a story and does reading if we've not managed it earlier. 6 year old normally settled by 8 and falls asleep easily. We then read to older one and leave him by 8.30. He struggles to settle though and we're up and down stopping him reading all evening. We have tried letting him read until 9 and putting him to bed earlier and giving him more reading time, but neither solve the refusal to settle. Little one up by 7 every morning. Older one struggles with morning as always so tired.

(Older one has always found settling hard, which is why we have no screens in the evening).