What time does your ten year old go to bed?

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Interested to hear what sort of pre bedtime routines they have...or not.

My 10 year old is a NIGHTMARE at bedtime. We're in Oz and it's the summer holidays here. Naturally she wants to stay up later but it's getting silly now.

DH thinks it's because she has no routine. She did when she was smaller but it slipped as she grew. He thinks if she has a shower at the same time nightly, then some time to read in bed, she;ll be better because she knows what's coming.

My 10 yr old goes to bed realistically about 9.30 most nights, rarely asleep before 10.
In summer holidays, she is regularly up until 11pm or later, but wakes much much later, around 9-10.

Gosh, all these posts make me feel quite mean!

My 10 year old goes to bed at 7.30

9 year old 9pm lights out 9.15=9.30 up to 10pm weekends and holidays but lights out after i've read story up at 7.15-7.30am

why does a 10 year old go to bed at 7.30? even if up at 6am do they read etc past 7.30?

7.30 seems very early - my 10 year old is in activities which end much later. At the moment he's in Cubs 7 - 8.30, soon he'll be moving on to Scouts which ends at 9.30.

He also does a karate class which is 7-8. These timings seem fairly standard for his age group. If he was in bed at 7.30, he'd miss out. Plus he'd be awake about 5.30am which wouldn't work for us!!

During holidays we'll push bedtimes back to 10pm or later, but not too late as he's just grumpy the next day.

but if they fall asleep then (and don't wake at stupid o'clock) then that's clearly the right time.

DD simply wouldn't be tired and would just lie there tossing and turning and getting less and less sleepy for hours. When she started school I waited for her to be shattered and drop off instantly (as MN reassures everyone that they will when they start school) - well, 5 years on and I'm still waiting for that to happen!

10pm. She isn't tired any earlier than that.

I do t think there’s a right generic
Answer to this at this age. My boy is a bugger to get to sleep as he doesn’t like going to bed. But rather than argue and give him an early acceptable bed time I’ve compromised and it makes
No difference to him
He’s still up in the mornings.

Mine goes to bed at 7.30pm too Doggydoggydoggy!!

He seems quite happy about it though.. He gets up at 6.45am .. He stays up later on weekends and holidays and he reads for a bit if he's not tired but he's always fast asleep by 9pm..

I really believe that sleep is important for children (and adults) though

My (almost) 10 year old is lights out at 8.15pm on a school night. Will probably push this to 8.30pm once she is 10.

She is wakened by her alarm at 7am almost every morning so she obviously needs the sleep.

School holidays & weekends she can be up until anything from 9pm - 11.30pm but she will lie in until 9/10am, sometime later, the next day!

Some kids needs less sleep than others I guess. If my daughter was wakening up earlier regularly I'd probably let her have a later bedtime but as it stands she's not so her bedtime won't be getting much later any time soon!

10 year old girl.
Gives up her phone at 8pm, then supper, toothbrushing, then takes melatonin.
She then goes to bed with her t.v. on til she passes out

I wouldn’t let him miss out on any clubs that ended later in the evening macarena he’d go to bed late on those days but yes, 7.30 any other day.

He reads on weekends, sometimes up to 10 or 11pm, no reading on school days.

10yo almost 11, goes to bed at 9pm, often nearer 9.30pm and would stay up later if I let them.

Usually around 10pm in the holidays.

My daughter is 9 but turns 10 this year. She was a nightmare too. I bought the ‘what to do when you dread your bed’ book, which has various activities to help your child be ready to sleep and ready for bed. I have used it for my 11 year old ds too- they are both on the autistic spectrum.

www.amazon.co.uk/What-When-Dread-Your-What/dp/1433803186/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=what+to+do+when+you+dread+your+bed&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1547651155&sr=8-1

There are different activities in the book to help your child work out what their ideal sleep time is and devise a wind down routine every evening to help them feel ready for sleep. This saved my sanity and I am pleased to say that dd is a great little sleeper now.

Her routine starts at 8pm with non technology activities, like drawing, reading or a board game, or showering on school nights. At half eight she has a hot drink/ bedtime snack, brushes her teeth and gets into bed to listen to her audiobook. She is asleep for nine.

This works great for us.

I really believe that sleep is important for children (and adults) though
Because nobody else thinks that.

I think a lot of people don't actually realise how important it is.

Dd is 11. She reads from 8, lights out at half past. She does a lot of after school clubs but has always enjoyed her sleep.
She gets up at 7 but we're thinking of putting bedtime back to 8 as she's struggling.
As for routine. We do no electronics after seven, book till half eight. She's 11 so we're struggling getting her near the shower at the minute.

7.30 is bonkers!! Unless they have to be up at some ungodly hour like 5.30?

My 11 year old goes about 9.

My nine year old at 8.30.

My four year old goes at 7 and six year old 7.30.

They getup 7.30am.

My 12 year old has lights out at 8.30 in the week, 9 at weekends. When he was 10 it was 7.30.
He has always needed a lot of sleep (like his mum), and if it goes later he is a grumpy so and so

9.30 and asleep by 10pm. She attends Guides once a week which finishes at 9pm so we found it easier to have a later bedtime for the whole week. She gets up between 7 and 7.30am normally, never later than 8am if she needs a lie in and leaves for school at 8.45am on school days.

My boys (8 and 10) share a room. Lights go off at 8, I know they often whisper to each other for a little while after that, but I don’t usually hear anything after about 8.30.

9 ish. Light off by 10

And up around 7.30/8

My 10 year old goes around 7.30-8 too. TBH I guess it’s nearer 8 that he actually gets into bed and nearer 8.30 when he sleeps. He gets up at 7 and struggles to do so. He also looks exhausted. May look at his diet a bit more as he keeps sayi the goes to bed earlier than his friends.l. It until I read this thread I didn’t believe him!

Bed at 8, lights out at 9. But she usually drags it out a bit! I wouldn’t mind but she’s the one who I have to drag out of bed in the mornings!