My dc doesnt wake until 9 am every morning... Piss off!

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Ok, so I am rather 'jel'. But I do tire of the incessant boasting , in RL esspecially, about peoples dc's and their epic sleep patterns... Yaaaawn!

Funny thing is, when asked what time their 1 year old dc goes to bed? 9pm!!! WTF? Where's your life?

Personally I much prefer dd in bed at 6 and up at 6, this way i actually hve an evening to myself :) (if she does go to bed at 7 she rises even earlier!) I don't go round boasting about how my dd is in bed at 6pm though, I just wouldn't...

It appears many love to boast about this topic in particular, which is non- sensical to me, as their dc is goin to bed ridiculously late IMO.

Sorry for the rant, but I do tire of this.

I'm on your side. Mine are very early risers but in bed by 7pm. I love my evenings.

I can't imagine having very young children up still at 9pm. How would they get enough sleep? If school-age how do they get to school on time if they are sleeping till 9am?

YABU. Different things suit different families. I used to keep my DS up until late, so he'd sleep til late. It worked really well on holidays, as he'd be out with us in restaurants until 11.30-1 a.m. and then sleep the 12 hours :). I only started putting him to bed at 8 p.m.when he started Nursery and had to be up by 8.15 a.m. at the latest.

He's 11 now and sometimes stays in bed til after mid-day at the weekends, if we're not doing anything in particular. Love it!

I'm gradually pushing 3YO DD's bedtime later. She only sleeps 10.5 - 11 hours at night (never all in one go) and, as we live in the same road as the school she'll start in September, we don't need to be up at 6.30 in the morning.

Don't be jealous. You enjoy your child free evenings. I wouldn't have it any other way!

I'm with cremeEggThief on this. DD had a medical condition as a baby that meant I had to be with her 24/7. It suited us better that she went to bed later and woke up later. I couldn't work because of her condition so I didn't need to get up early.

She was never a 12 hour sleeper either, so if I had put her to bed at 6 she would have been awake at 4.

My kids do 7.30pm bedtime, DD is up at 8.30am and DS can sleep in as late as 10am! Do I win a prize?

There was a time when my DD1 slept 11 - 11. It suited us perfectly. We would eat out 3/4 times a week and have friends / see friends the other nights, so having a baby who was happy to sit in her carseat at the table till 10.30 and then let me sleep in was perfect

Now she's at nursery she sleeps 8-8 it's not that hard to change it. It's just what works best for your lifestyle. The idea of having to be home at 6 every night for her to go to bed would be my idea of hell.

Hah, my DD sleeps late and usually has to be woken every morning at 8 or she'd never be ready for school. At the weekends it's 9. However, in our infinite stupidity wisdom, we thought it was so easy when we had her that we'd have another one quickly.
7 years later and it's rare that I get a full nights sleep and am always up early. :(

On holiday we strive for 12-12

YANBU, I get that some kids have different sleep patterns, but hate the boosting about long lies, but being very quiet about the bedtime bit.

When I told a friend that 18 month old DD gets up at 6:30-7am each day, she was horrified and said her pfb sleeps until 10am most days. She neglected to mention said child went to bed at 2am.

I would hate to have to stay in until 12 to wait for a youngster to wake up. What a waste of a day.

I much prefer the child free evenings than sleeping in.

I'm crap at sleeping in anyway.. early mornings are mint

My Ds 4 regularly drives me to tears with his need for constant physical activity and attention. Sometimes the only up side in an otherwise exhausting day is that he wakes up at 9. there's usually a context to people being happy about such a thing- they are more able to cope, perhaps.

I don't know.... I think it's far more common to see people complaining about their kids getting up at 6 am, when they put them to bed at 6 pm, which seems kind of obvious too.

We used to do 8 to 8 (lived in France) was a nice balance of free evenings and morning sleep.

I love my child free evenings. But we have to leave the house 4 mornings a week by 7am with 3 under 7 in tow, so I need them all awake by 6am.

I know loads of people who keep their young dc up late so they can have a long lie. As their kids get older they're having trouble getting them up for school/to bed earlier resulting in tired grumpy kids and stressful mornings. I on the other hand have time for 2 leisurely coffees and a bit of housework before school/work and get to enjoy child free evenings.
Nothing to be jealous of.

I prefer my mornings - I'm too bloody knackered by 4pm to do anything more than collapse infront of the TV. If I didn't have late risers my house would be a complete bombsite.

I agree with you OP. My dcs are early risers - both up at 530 this morning! But they go to bed at 630/7pm and love my evenings. On the rare occasions dcs do stay up late until 9, they still wake really early and are in a foul mood all day.

7-6.30 here, wouldn't have it any other way, love my child free evenings, next month on holiday it'll be usual bedtimes as far as possible, doesn't bother me getting up early in the slightest. Tbh most of my friends are the same!

You all sound like you have wonderful dc's, one of mine sees fit to still only sleep 3 to 4 hours at a time. DH was nightshift lastweek so by Thursday I looked like I done 12 rounds with Tyson the black circles were so thick. If someone was to tell me theirs slept till 9 am I would lie and tell them mine did too and ask them to babysit that would be a rude awakening for them

I much prefer a bit of a lie-in - DS1 used to go to bed about 8.30pm when he still napped. Now DS1 sleeps 7.30-7 and DS2 does 8.30-8. I don't tend to go yo bed til 11 though so still have a childfree evening, and I prefer we eat dinner together after 6pm than 5pm.

I much prefer a lie in. Ds is a night owl like me and gets up late at weekends and school hols. Not sure why you're so angry about it?

Ofgs diff folks diff strokes. I loves my 10 pm bedtime yawn

What about this then.

As a baby: 11-6ish no problem did it from 5 weeks old and then we gradually tried to bring the bed time forward.

By about 18 months Bed at 8pm - up at 2.30 - 5.30 - absolutely raring to go, then would go back to sleep until about 8. It was complete hell.

By the time he was about 2.5 we realised he didn't actually need more than 8 hours sleep a night. He never did; he never has. At that point we used to put him to bed at 10ish (he got to see daddy) and he would wake up at about 6.30 and was trained to stay in bed until about 7/7.30 (earlier in the summer "Birds up; Windyboy up".

They are all different and all have different patterns. He's 19 now and I have rarely had trouble getting him up in the morning; even as a teenager. You just have to go with the flow and do what's best for your family. We had to give up our evenings because it was better than giving up three hours in the night or getting up before 4.

I have tried to get dd to do the 7-7 to no avail. I am going to try it once again. It normally results in her waking at 6 anway :( I know I am lucky regardless.