to think 630 really isn't particularly early for young children to wake

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was having a conversation with a friend today who has little ones the same age as mine and when she asked what time the older DC (3.5) woke I said 630, and she said oh ok so pretty early then...

maybe i am deluded but i think 630 is pretty good going for a pre schooler, she goes to bed at 730 so that is 11 hours...

i had thought the majority of young children were up at the crack of dawn or am i just thinking that to make myself feel better?

My 8yo DD has always been an early riser. Anything past 7am is a long lie here.

I don't mind though as she goes to bed at 8pm. Her 6yo brother would sleep longer, and often does.

I prefer to be awake earlier if it means that I have a good part of the evening alone with DH.

No, sounds pretty normal to me for preschoolers. My DS (3.7) now gets up at 7am every day (and gets a sticker for doing so) - he may wake earlier but doesn't make a peep until 7am. He has lights off at 7pm. Sometimes it's after 7am which is always nice, but depends on how knackered he is.
Lucilastic, it's not really a longer day as yours go to bed later, so it's the same number of hours. Personally though I like to go to bed about 10pm so I need a bit of an evening before then. Plus when your DC go to preschool/school they are going to have to get up earlier than 8/9am.
psammead, that sounds lovely, I hope my DS2, due in October, is like your baby!!!

Anything before 7am pisses me off.

Forgot to add that when he was younger I just used to wish that he would wake up when the time had a "6" in it, so 7am is fine by me!!

6.30 would be horribly early for me.

None of my 3 DC were early risers (well DD1 does now but not out of choice, she is 12 and has to get the bus at 7.15), but then I never did the 7pm bedtime thing either.

You choose your evenings or your mornings. Simple. You can't win at both ends! I choose my evenings and mine (3.5 and 22mths) are usually up between 6 and 7.

Mine(2.5 and 11months) are in bed for 7.30/8pm ish and up between 7.30/9am.

I often have to wake them for pre school mornings.
It always seems such a shame to wake them, they both just love their beds.

they either go to bed late, or wake too early IMO

Yup - my DD goes to bed between 9 and 10 and wakes up at the same time. We like having her awake in the evenings or else DH would never see her.

I think it's a fairly normal time. DD (18 months) has had a horrible attack of the 5ams recently, which is Far Too Early. Luckily I'm a fairly morning person and tend to get up with her and do some chores whilst she thuds around downstairs.

DS (nearly 4yrs) is generally awake between 6.30-7.00. We made him a clock for his room with night/day marked on it - anything before 6.30 and he's not supposed to come in to us.

Our boys (3.5 and 22 months) go to bed at 7.15. 22 months usually wakes @ 6.15 and gargles away in his cot for a while till OH gets up to take him downstairs at @ 7am. 3.5 yo can be anything between 6am and 7am and, if earlier than 6.30 (when I get up) usually climbs in beside me. He then goes in to play with his brother till Daddy gets up as above.

6.30 here too.. anything past 6 is good going for ds (nearly 3)

Hes sparked out by 7pm tho so we do get our evenings to relax.

Agree you can't have it both ways.

DD aged 4 in bed by 8 (but not always asleep straightaway) wakes 8 ish.

6.30 to me would be too early but I am not a morning person.

I often wonder if DD is not an early riser because she gets very little response from me before 8am and always has done. She knows to go to Dh's side of the bed first.

Had a 'discussion' with my mum this morning who advocates a 7-7 routine. My view is why would I want DD to wake at 7 and how i'd struggle to get her to bed for 7 when we all come home at 6.15pm on the days I work.

It just depends on what you're used to. When mine were little I'd feed them and put them back to bed if it was before seven.

If both our kids were still quietly asleep in their bedrooms at 7.00am one morning we'd have called the paramedics...!

By that time we're usually on our seventh episode of Ben & Holly and the playroom has been completely dismantled

I used to put DD1 to bed at 8pm and she woke about 8am

I put DD2 to be about 8pm and she wakes at 6.30- 7.30 am

Some kids wake up earlier, some don't.

6.30am is definitely too early for me!!

I'm going to go on about gro-clocks again, but my Ds is 3 and he's been sleeping until 0715 from 2.5yrs, he knows not to get up until the sun is on his clock.

Works for us and he goes from 1930 to 0730.

My DCs tend to do 7 to 6.30/7 which is OKish as we prefer our evenings.

Am v jealous of friend's DD who does 7-9/9.30 if she can. They have very relaxing weekends!

My dd wakes up at 5.30 and my ds around 6.30-7 which is what we need as school is at 8.25.

I would much rather have them in bed at 7.30-8pm and have some evening as well - oh and a 2 hour nap still at lunchtime for the toddler...

nagoo - you can go on about groclocks all you like but dc just vary as I've found out after my initial smugness with ds.

My DS (just coming up to 3yo) is usually asleep by 7.30pm and his waking up time varies. This week it's been 6.15-6.30ish, last week it was 7am. Obviously I prefer the latter, but after 18 months of 5-something wakings I can't complain about 6 o'clock onwards.

These were my eyes last year:

DD (22 months) likes her sleep at night - never been very good at napping in the day until the last few weeks but she goes to bed at about 7pm (not always straight to sleep but amuses herself singing/talking) and is usually up about 8am.

A couple of weeks ago we had builders arriving at 7.30. She was still in bed, trying to bury her head under her pillow! On the odd occasion we've had to get her up she has Not Been Amused.

My dd's (2 and 4) are in bed by 7 and awake by 6.30 at the veyr latest, they are very good at playing in their room until 7 as I am not good in the morning and it means we can get straight into breakfast etc as they have had playtime already.
The days they don't wake until after 7 are horrible, rushed and they are grumpy as they don't have time to wake up properly.

BTW they have an analogue clock in their room with stickers on teh hour hand and clock face to show 7, and a digital clock in the spare room wheretheir toys are so they know to look for a 7. They figured out how to reset the INTG alarm clock and were getting up at 5 and changing the clock so it said later

6.30 would be a lie-in in our house (and to be honest, if I wasn't up by 6 I would think one of them was dead )

This time last year, DD1 was up at 4.30 everyday for 2 months. It's generally 6am now, but we still have the occasional 5.30.

I have friends whose LOs sleep past 8am, but then they put them to bed later (8 or 9pm). I just keep reminding myself that they will be the ones who can't drag their DCs out of bed for school in the morning, whereas we will be at the gates before they open!

Whatever I have/.have not done as a parent I have always had my evenings and therefore can put up with early mornings. We are never asleep past six, sometimes earlier!