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.

Ooo yes, I love early bedtimes, evening to myself and I normally manage to muddle through early mornings with plenty of coffee!

It's really silly seeing it as boasting. As other people said different routines work for different families. Going to bed at ten pm is my idea of hell - we are a family of night owls. DS stayed up late with us and slept late. It was great on holiday or visiting people as he just came along and coped well. Now he goes to bed at 8.30 and wakes at 7.30 - which is painfully early for me Roll on winter and the dark nights :o

My two are 7pm-6am, like the OP I prefer to have my evenings as "me" time, and I try and get to bed at 10 so I get my 8 hours. I actually quite like the early mornings! Although I'm a lone parent so I do get one lie in a week when dcs are at their dad's :)

Keep- and we finish at 6.30pm hence late bedtimes. Very few people finish at 4/5pm here in London. More like 6/7/8pm. Kids adapt

It's never occurred to me that I need an evening to be completely child free anyway. If I want to bake/ sew/ read/ research/ have friends over we do all that with kids around still

My toddler is usually 7.30-7.30, although she's in bed for 7pm but often spends 30-40 mins chatting to herself. Trying to get the baby on the same schedule, although he seems keen on a 5.30-5.30 day. I've already told him that won't be happening

well, I finish work at 5.30 and it takes about an hour to get home. Not at all unusual ime. I wouldn't see DD 3 days a week if someone was putting her to bed at 6.

Like I said, what works for you works for you, what works for others works for them. Absolutely nothing to get all arsey about.

There's no way I could go to bed at 10pm I just wouldn't be able to get to sleep but I still get 8 hrs. Midnight till 8. . Everyone's still getting the same. My kids go later and so do I and they get up later with me. I'm still having my evening 9 till midnight.

People who send their kids at 9 are just getting the same as someone who sends their kids at 6. It's exactly the same. I still get my evening. I don't work office hrs so me getting up at 6 am is like op getting up at 2 am

I think it depends if you prefer your sleep or an evening. Personally I get a bit panicky if I am up more than half an hour after dc as I will never get enough sleep in!

I prefer mine in bed early and up early. Some posters might be able to relax and do things for themselves during the day but with very young children my day is taken up with wiping bums, getting snacks, breaking up fights, tending grazes, fetching things, mending things, cleaning up spills, changing wet clothes etc

I focus on my DC in the day and enjoy my time in the evening. If my DC go to bed late they are just really grumpy and rude to me in the morning.

I have relatives who sit downstairs trying to drink wind during the evening as their kids crawl all over them or un around like lunatics- not relaxing!

Yanbu. My DN is 10 months old and apparently sleeps until 8am and has to be woken....but goes to bed at 11pm!
Slightly concerned for my DSis when she goes back I work in three weeks and has to get them all out of the house by 7.30am!
DS is 9 months old and a 6 to 6. Can't said the early starts are MH favourite but DH and I need our evenings.

Ds (15 mths) sleeps 9-9 just about (with some brief wake ups). It suits us because DH doesn't finish work until 10 at weekends so our evenings are then late anyway.
I work Mon - Fri 9-5 so am up about 7.15 which I hate, DH and Ds sleep in until 9. Weekends we all get a lie in. It also means I get to see more of Ds in the week and do play time then bath and bed, which is so much nicer than up and dressed and breakfast which is all I'd get if he slept 6-6.

No boasting, just works best for us. What works best for other people is no issue to me.

I really don't think I've ever heard people boast about late sleepers. I have heard lots of people talking about how great their child free evenings are though. I hear sometimes there is .

Mine have all been the late to bed and lie in types, like DH and me. No way would i willlingly get up at 6am! (went through stages of it but thankfully they soon enjoyed sleeping in!). DC get up between 7-8.15am school days and 9.30-10.30 weekends. Go to bed around 9pm, older ones later.

My DD used to do 11-11 under about 1 we have gradually brought this to 8:30pm
I think its important for language development for them to see their dads as much as possible (or your friends etc)
For us if i put her down at 6pm she would see him less than an hour a day, most of it eating.
As long as they get enough sleep. You get some break if you want it and they hear some adult conversation
Coincidentally my friend put hers down at 6pm and her DS had very limited speech.

Mine does bed 8ish and up at 7ish in the morning. He's 4.

I would love him to go to bed earlier so I actually got some evening but he sleeps a max of 11 hours and no amount of getting him into bed by 7pm is having any effect on the actual time he falls asleep at the mo.

I'm a lark anyway so I'm up before him at 6am.

I enjoy dd's company, so have never felt the need to pack her off to bed quickly. I love my evenings, both before and after she goes to bed!

I don't know why anyone would boast about their dc sleep habits. I can't think of anything worse than putting dd to bed at 6 and then getting woken at the crack of dawn, but I recognise that this works for many people. Each to their own and all that.

You complain about people boasting, OP, but you do sound incredibly judgemental about other people's choices. Could it be that people are reacting against that?

I preferred slightly later bed time and getting up time, 9am obviously too late for school or work for me so i wouldn't see someone who said their kid didn't wake until 9 as boasting as it wouldn't suit me as I'd have waking them up.
You get people with different views to you all the time, I think parents of young kids are just more sensitive than parents of older kids or nonparents who just ignore other people's strongly held views if you think they are bollocks.
Also they aren't trying to force you to get your kids to lie in until 9am, just saying that's what suits them.
I did manipulate my kids' sleeping pattern to avoid waking before 6.30 though and blackout blinds were compulsary.

I love the evenings! Bedtime is 7.30, so there's about 3/4 hours of us time in the night, which I really enjoy.

They can wake anytime from 6.30am to needing to be shaken awake at 9am depending on if they've had a busy day.

Mine got o bed at 9ish and wake up at 9ish.I dont mind not having hours and hours of child free time in the evenings,i love our time together as a family in the evenings,and i love my lie ins too!

THey are home educated so dont have to get up early to go to school.

nat that is am interesting theory! My dds speach is wry advanced. But dh does finish at 4. He often has to work another job though in evenings sadly (for now) dd has always had excellent speech.

I am also pregnant again so I imagine the new baby wi be an early riser (like most newborns are!) so dd wakin early wi be ok then too, as atleast I will nothave to worry about her being disturbed in mornings by newborn if she is up anyway.

I am sorry if I offended anyone. I should not have been so blasé with some of the comments made- obviously Woking parents have to adapt their bedtimes to see their kids.

I appreciate people saying they do not boast, but I can assure you many do! They are always quick to say how late ther dc wakes with a smile- but forget to mention their extremely (relatively) late bedtime :) friends and fam I have discussed this with often laugh at folk who do this too! I am suprised a few of you are of the thinking people never boast about this!

jinsei I also adore my dd and adore spending time with her , but she is full on and only a year old! Plus she is not a fab Napper! Our days are surrounded around activities for her , so come 6pm it is bliss to pop her to bed and reeeelax and do something for me. I love a bit of me time as my days are full of dd time :) getting that me time ensures I am there for dd as much as poss in her waking time :)
Mi have apologised for some of the comments made previously, generally I am not so judgemental so the boasting is not a reaction to me, no.

Im jealous of anyone whos dcs sleep routine works for them, regardless of it being early or late evenings

When mine was a toddler she'd be in bed between 9 and 10 and up between 9 and 10. Which worked very well for me.
But she stopped napping during the day at 18 months and didn't sleep through a whole night until she was nearly six, so really not anything to brag about.

It doesn't matter how late my DD's go to bed. They are still awake by 7am!