What time does your 10 year old go to bed?

[AjasLipstick]

That's it really. Mine is supposed to go at 9.30 but delays and delays...constantly messing about, reading, writing etc. She has a dim nightlight in a corner which she sneaks out of bed and stretches across so she can see to read!

I'm so tired! I feel I can't "turn off". We're in Australia and it's ten o clock pm now. She's a full-on kid and talks to me constantly a lot. So I just want to say BUGGER OFF now!

Don't bother comparing with other children it depends upon the child
And the lifestyle ie clubs they go to etc. Or even what has happened that day... Ie if they have ad an inactive day and they are not going to be tired. My boy just can't get to sleep sometimes and there is no point sending him to bed to lay there for hours. I now take the 7 year old up at 9 and let the 9 year old have an extra 20 mins downstairs by himself
And it's made him get up
Better in the mornings and straight to sleep without hassle. Yes I long for the days of them going bed at 8 so I can have an hour or two by myself but probably easier this way. She's 10 though and if she's in her room entertaining herself I don't see the issue as long as you put an limit on it.

Dd10, nearly 11 goes to bed at 9.30.

9pm, she has to be woken up most mornings at 8am for school.

I feel mine must be going too late now! All these kids in bed by 8! She fell asleep a bit earlier than she has done as today was the first day back in school after two weeks off (Australian half term)

But it was still late for someone of 10!

I find that once she's got in, played in the garden a bit, read and watched a bit of TV, it's suddenly 8.00 and time for a shower!

I can't seem to get it earlier somehow. She does get up in the morning with no bother though.

9:30. Asleep by 9:45. We are in Australia too.

For us it’s just our whole day is early! So school starts at 7.15am, clubs are straight after school so we’re home about 4.30pm most days. So loads of time still for chilling out, dinner, reading etc

Latest activity finishes 7.45, and she eats before, so it’s do-able to be home, showered and in bed by 8.30. It does help that all activities are local, so only a few minutes walk away.

I went to bed at 9 or 9:30 right up to the end of highschool (admittedly sometimes getting up crazy early to study just in the last 3 months when others stayed up crazy late). (grew up in Australia).

My son at 10 was still on 7:30 bedtime, perhaps moving later in summer term just before he turned 11. We were working on 8 pm bedtime until he was 12.5 Age 9-10 our routine after Evensong (he was a chorister) was collect, snack in car (10 minutes home), straight into the bath/shower and straight to bed. And that was what he needed. He's been able to cope with staying up later only relatively recently (now 13).

His sister started boarding at the age of 10 and I think was on lights out at 8:15 that year, going up by 15 minutes each year.

9pm in general. He's usually upstairs from around 8pm.

7:30-8 on a school night later at weekend but usually by 9. However we are awake at 6 and she does sometimes struggle

My DS2 is 10 and goes 9/930pm, up at 7am. He chills in bed watching videos on YouTube from about 815, he has autism and does the same thing way night.

DS1 is 12 and doesn't have a bed time, he turns his light out probsbly 1030 most nights.

No issues with either in the mornings.

I don't think it's massively relevant other people saying their kids go to be at 730 at 12 yo, it all depends on how much sleep your DCs need. I personally don't mind but I do insist they chill upstairs from 830 though to give them (and us) relaxing time. I allow them to do as they please in that time and have never had any issues where they have either abused that or been tally shattered the next day.

I send him up about 9. By the time he faffs about with shower/brushing teeth/reading, it's well past 9:30. More likely than not he'll come down to have a nosy at what I'm watching on the telly get water/say goodnight/complain he's not tired. By the time I head up to check on him again by 10, he's usually asleep. But it's a loooong hour until then.

In bed by 8:30 to read, lights out by 9.

There's definitely some faffing around some nights, I'll catch him out of bed playing with Legos, etc., but he needs to be asleep by 9:30 or the mornings are tough.