Time for bed at 7 nearly 8

[EllieJayJay]

Having an argument with DP...

I think they should be in bed sleeping by 8.30 (stories excluded)

What do mumsnetter think...

They do wake up super bloody early but I figure we deal with this and I'm not a monster I think occasionally it's ok for them to stay up a little late

But what time do people 7 year olds go to bed (sleep)

At 7 my DS was bed 7 light off 7.30...He is still an early riser and is aware when he learns to sleep in he can go to bed later... He is now 8 nearly 9... and it is 8 lights off normal nights..Closer to 8.30 on cubs and saturdays..

My DD is 8 in a couple of weeks. She goes to bed at 8pm,later on a Saturday so she can watch Ant and Dec though

5 y/o in bed by seven and 7 y/o goes at half past. Have to wake them for school and neither get up before 8am on the weekends, unless they have had a later night and then they wake up at 6am for some bizarre reason.

My eldest however never, ever slept for more than 6 hours at a time and still doesn't as a grown up. He was always in bed by 8pm; just had story CD's on or read a book until he fell asleep and then used to draw or read when he woke early at that age.

9 year old DD goes at 8 and will read till 8:30-8:45
5 and 7 yr old Ds's go up at 7:15 and will usually be asleep by 8pm, they like to chat for a bit and read a story to each other.
They all get up at around 6am

8yo ds1 went to bed at 8:30 last night. Most nights it's 8:00. If he's really tired and miserable then it will be 7:30. He generally reads for about an hour and wakes at 6:30 or before.

Ds1&2 - 8&9. Ready for bed from 7pm onwards, into bed by 7.30, allowed to read until 8pm. They have to be woken at 6.30, they don't wake up spontaneously (they used to be in at 5.30am, I'm enjoying the turn around!).

Mondays/Thursdays we have karate until 8 so they're in bed by 9, no reading on those nights.

DS is 8 and he goes to bed at 7:30. Reads to dad for 30 mins and the 30 mins alone. 8:30 light out. Otherwise would be up till all hours reading!!! Today I removed 9 books from his bed! The kid loves to read X

5yr old in bedroom at 7. Stories, wee, cuddle, fast asleep by 7.30. Wakes anytime from 5am.

Nearly 7yr old into bedroom at 7.30, plays quietly for 30 mins, then into bed and he reads to himself (his choice) for 15 minutes. Lights out at 8.15, fast asleep by 8.30pm. Wakes up between 7 and 7.30am.

Xmas baby when mine were 4 and 3 they went to bed at 6/630! They love their sleep!

On a school night my 8yo goes up at 7.30 and it's lights out by 8pm. DS is almost 5 and he goes straight to bed at 7.30.

Both stay up later on the weekend - last night it was 9pm to watch The Voice.

We have 8 year old twins too. They have to be in their rooms at 19:15 and after that they can choose a quiet activity (no screens allowed during the week in this house) like colouring, reading, Lego. This is the point at which we say good night once their teeth are done etc. and they then self-regulate their bed time. A couple of people thought we were mental when we said we were going to do that but bedtime has become a bit of a battle for a few weeks. For the first week or so, while the novelty wore off, they stayed up late-still got up at the same time they were just crabby-but after that they became pretty sensible with it. Most days we have two sleeping boyos by eight o'clock. Occasionally, they're not tired and they just carry on with their activity a bit longer. Works for us-you're not tired at the same time every day.

My grandsons are 7 and 9. The 7 year old goes up at 7:30 and the 9year old at 8:00. The young one wakes early but likes to read when he wakes up. The 9 year old wakes between 7:30 and 8:00.

DSS will pretty reliably do 11-12hrs no matter what time he goes down so it's adjusted according to when he needs to be up - bed by 8 on school nights, a lot more flexible at weekends.

9 year old in bed at 7.30, 11 year old at 8.

God, I'm so jealous of all of you people with children who need vast amounts of sleep and go to bed early .

I worked out when DD was four that she needed ten hours' sleep a night. As I didn't want to get up much before seven, I aimed to get her asleep by 8.45. (And to all of you who are about to say that I just needed a proper bedtime routine, I had one. She simply didn't need much sleep. I was the same as a child.)

She's 17 now and doesn't so much sleep as enter a coma. I would never have thought it possible.

Jean, DSS hasn't got any of my genes affecting his sleep. DD on the other hand, dropped her nap at 2.2 and is absolutely happy on between 8-9 hours a night - with wakings.

It's not that surprising though. On her second waking of the night I was already awake and reading in my mid-night awake break.

I'm so pleased to hear that someone else has a young child that doesn't need much sleep. Genetics can be a bugger, can't it LBOCS2

DD started to change as she approached twelve years old. If anyone had told me when she was younger that she would sleep like this as a teenager, I would have laughed in their face. She sometimes asks me why I get up, "in the middle of the night" by which she means 7 / 8 am. I reply, "Well once, I had this baby that wouldn't sleep...."

DS 8 in bed for 830pm lights out by 9 on a school night. Often still awake at 10, even in a quiet house, door pulled to, room nice and dark. Usually asleep by 1030. Wakes naturally about 745 or 8.

I feel a bit mean that he goes to bed before he is actually sleepy but at least he is resting and relaxing.

Weekends he goes up at 9 and has lights out about 945. Wakes about 8 or 815.

My daughter is 7 (year 2). She's in bed at 7pm every night. She's asleep by 7.05 generally. She has a long day at school (8am - 4pm) and dances after school almost every day.

She wakes at 6.30am. She's VILE if she doesn't get enough sleep.

My newly 8 year old has been going to bed and lights out anytime between 7.30 and 8.30 during the week. She has various activities on in the evenings and we work so sometimes she has to do homework later than I'd like. However she sleeps for a good 11 hours every night as she doesn't have to be up for school until 8am. I think you have bed times that suit your child not what 'convention' says you should.

Nhs guidelines say that 8 year olds need approx 10 hrs and 15mins of sleep. 7 year olds need 10hrs 30mins.

My 8 (nearly 9) year old goes to bed at the same time as my 5 year old which is usally about 7.30. They're both pain in the arses at getting up in the morning.

7:30. My 11 year old goes at 8:30-9.

Bath at 7.15. In bed reading by 8. Lights out at 8:30. Wakes at 7:30/7:45 on a school morning.

Bed time (teeth stories etc. 7:30-8. Lights out at 9. One falls asleep almost straight away. The other rarely actually goes to sleep before 10:15, sometime 11. They wake up at 7:45 (earlier on weekends ).

Different children need different amounts of sleep. If you're both happy with the early wake up and they are awake when they need to be then I don't see the problem. If one of you isn't happy then maybe you need to compromise a bit. It's of no particular benefit to the children to go to sleep at 8:30 and wake at 5:30 compare to going to sleep at 9:30 and getting up at 6:30 (or vice versa) unless it's their body clock demanding it not your desire for routine. The whole an hour before midnight is worth two after received wisdom is not based on evidence.