What age does your 3.5 year old go to bed?

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And what is their bedtime routine?

Dd is clearly tired by about 5.30/6pm but then gets a second wind once we’ve done the bedtime routine (bath, teeth, story, lights out) and wants to play for another hour or so and only goes to sleep around 8pm.

She sleeps about 11 hours a night with no daytime naps.

When DD1 was that age, asleep around 8, up 6-6.30, unless she'd had a particularly active day or was ill. DD2 is only just 3, but pretty similar. The mythical 7-7 means someone is ill in this house.

Hi there, he goes to bed around 7.30 and sleeps for 11 hours or more if he’s very tired

DD turned 3 today 🙌 she’s in bed at 7 ideally, sometimes takes a while to fall asleep. With older siblings clubs, we often aren’t home until 6:30, so then have to do dinner/bath/bed so sometimes in bed after 7.
Up around 7 which is the latest of all my children, the boys are always up around 6. Do you do lots of rough play etc at bedtime? Can really help - obviously for some kids it might rile them up, but it helps lots of kids wind down too.

Start routine at 6.30, asleep by about 7.45. Wakes anytime between 7-8am. I think your routine sounds pretty normal for that age

My two eldest were in bed and asleep by 630pm and slept 12 hours…they loved their beds !
Youngest about 730 because he was put to bed same time as his older siblings. They were then 5 and 8 .
I was very lucky!

I think it’s a hard age, they have dropped their last nap but it’s hard to keep going till bedtime. I try to get mine to bed early…stories at 6pm-6.30pm. He will fall asleep then and sleep till 7am.

However, leave it any later and he often gets a second wind and can stay much later. Or if he naps at all during day he will be wide awake till 10pm.

I don’t do a long winded bedtime routine now I’d have to start so early! Basically teeth and stories.

Bathtime can be during the day or nights we don’t need to get up early the next day.

In bed between 8pm and 830pm and up between 6am and 7am. Still gets up in the night for a drink but goes right back over again

My 3 year old is awake until about 9-10, sleeps in 2-3 hour chunks and wakes up at 5:30. Every day. Yes, we have a nice relaxing bedtime routine. Yes, we tried sleep training. They just don't sleep much.

Go upstairs at 7, do teeth and have a quick scrub with a flannel, get into pyjamas, two stories, go for a wee, back into bed to sleep. He’s generally asleep by 7:45. We stopped doing baths before bed because he kept drinking the water and then having accidents in the night 😂 so it’s showers in the morning now. He then gets up about 7ish, sometimes slightly later.

Dd is only just drifting off tongiht and we’ve bee upstairs since 6.30pm 🤦🏻‍♀️

We finish the bedtime routine around 8.15-8:30 and he drops off not long after that. He wakes up around 7-7:30am, occasionally sleeping longer if the day before was busy.

Our bedtime routine starts around 7.15ish (bath time 7:15-7:45, stories and cuddles after that).

If 11 hours is all she needs, then all you can really do is decide which 11 hours would work best for you as a family. If you want her asleep by about 7pm, you might need to move her wake up to 6am. Or accept that 8pm is bedtime and wake up more like 7am.

DD is 3 years 2m and has been going down at 7pm and then waking at 6am since we took the side off her cot just before her birthday- prior to that she was sleeping till 7am. However the last week or 2 we have had increasing difficulty settling her at night so going to move to 7:30pm

Between 7-8pm. He sleeps through until around 7am, so a good 11 hours is the norm for him.

My DS turns 4 next week but has had the same times for the last year. He does love a lie on our non early days and will sleep until 8am or later on these days I still try and get him into bed before 8pm to be asleep by 8 or shortly after. On our early days I need to wake him just before 7 and so I aim for in bed around 7.15 on these days. Typically he sleeps 12 hours at least. He's a good sleeper though and has high sleep needs I guess. Some children need less overall sleep.

Probably around 8pm. I used to get the train home from work that got in at 7pm a few days a week, so I’d be home by 7:20pm. Dh and I would trade off, usually just getting out of the bath around then. And then to sleep by 8pm or a little after.

We’ve never really done bedtime earlier than that except maybe when dd1 was a baby and it was more like 7pm. We didn’t get home from work on a good day until 5:30pm and then had to start dinner, so never early to bed.