If you put kids to bed at 6pm ...

[ichifanny]

Just out of interest , I keep hearing parents talking about kids getting up at 4am - 5am I have 4 including a baby and apart from the newborn stage it’s never happened to any of mine unless they are ill or otherwise disrupted . Is it not just the case that if you put your kids to bed at 6-7pm then it makes sense they will be up with the larks ? Does it happen often that kids who go to bed about 8.30pm -9pm still get up early ?

My kids (5 and 7) go to bed at 9pm and get up at 5.30am. If they go to bed at 10pm, they still get up at 5.30am. And I can't stay up any later because I'm really exhausted. So that's just how life is

I once put DD aged around 8 to bed at 1am due to a family party where she’d kept going all night. She still got up at 6:30am zzzzz

Never mattered if she went at 6pm or 10pm - she still got up between 5 and 6am. Just had an atomic body clock that woke her up similar time every day. So I figured I might as well have evenings free time if I couldn’t get a lie in.

Even now at 13 she’s still up early by nature. Thankfully not as early but if she sleeps until 9am I’m practically checking her breathing. 7:30am is normal wake up time now.

My eldest went to sleep at 7 (from 6 weeks old) until she was 5, until she went to school she would naturally wake anywhere between 9-10:30 am, now at 6 she sleeps 8pm until we wake her for school or between 8-8:30am weekends/holidays.
My youngest (8months) sleeps from 6pm (tried a few times to keep her up later but she cries until you put her in bed!) until I wake her for the school run for eldest or 8-8:30 weekends/holidays (she has done this since 7 weeks).
I put it down to a mixture of genetics (all babies on my side of the family have been excellent sleepers) and luck!
I think some children must just need more/less sleep than others.

My son would sleep 7-7 or 7-8 with a short morning Nap and then another at 2-5pm.

Mine wake early regardless of when they go to bed.

My eldest DD was an early riser regardless of what time she went to bed. She's now 3 and only in the past year has she started to compensate with a lie in it she has a late night. Not always tho so we can't bank on it!! 🙈

granted we are a unusual case
but your kids get up when mine goes off

he dont go off till 6-9am or not at all(blooming last night)because of severe disabilities

im up all night everynight

Black out fabric velcroed to the window frames help early risers stay asleep. We took it everywhere on holiday too when kids were small.

It makes no difference what time mine go to be . aLWAYS up pre 630, usually 6

My youngest wakes between 5.30 and 6 most days (now the days are longer, we often start before 5 am). I’ve tried keeping him up later. I can guarantee the times he’s up later, he’ll wake earlier. So I stick to a 7 pm bed time for him. I’d rather have an evening to potter than extra time in bed in the morning.

Jeez, do you really think we hadn’t thought that out for ourselves.....
it doesn’t work.

My DD would be bloody knackered by 9pm and the whole evening would be horrendous! Plus that three hours or so to ourselves of an evening is golden. She sleeps for longer when she goes down earlier too. If she's overtired, she weirdly wakes up a lot more overnight.

My youngest Dd is now 12 and until she was 6 woke at 4.40am every day. I used to throw some toys in her cot then concede & get up at 5.45am. Now 12 she still wakes at 6 am or earlier regardless of when she goes to bed. I fact, I rarely tell her to go to bed, she just naturally goes early.

No matter what time mine go to bed one wakes up between 5 & 6 and the other wakes up at 7 unless disturbed before. They're 3yo twins! I put them to bed at the earliest they'll go (usually 7) because it makes no difference to the morning.

Dd usually sleeps 11-12 hours no matter what time you put her down but I'd much rather be up with her 6-7am than up with her at 9pm and get a lie in. I can't stay up late myself so it's our only time alone. I would be awake by 8 pre DD anyway

Mine went to bed at 6.30 from 4 months until the age of 6. If she woke of her own accord, it was never before 7am. She napped every day. I still got judged for putting her to bed 'too early' .

Even now at 10, it makes no difference when DD goes to bed, she gets up at 7.

DS2, my third used to get up horrendously early, it didn't matter if he went to bed at seven or at midnight. Once he was up that was it, there was no cuddles etc he would shriek until someone took him downstairs.
The only thing that changed by putting him to be later was his mood, the later he stayed up the more horrific his behaviour.
He is generally still foggy up but will read or amuse himself until 7am.

Didn't matter if they went bed at 7pm or 10pm they would wake up at their 'normal' time.

DD1 would sleep 7pm to 7am. Unless she didn't have an afternoon nap then she would wake up every bloody hour.

DD2 would sleep 7pm to 5am. Even now she is nearly 12 she wakes about 7am, but she doesn't go to sleep until 9 - 9.30pm.

Ds would sleep 7pm to 6am. He now 10 and he still wakes at 6am.

But then I'm an early riser and get up at 5.30am as I'm awake anyway.

My 18 month old has dropped his nap already, goes to sleep at 7.30 and rises at 5.30. Occasionally we put him to bed later, like recently when we had visitors he was running round the garden til 9. Up at 5.30. happy as Larry. He also still wakes 3 times a night.

He's absolutely knackering. Some kids just don't need much sleep.

My teen is always up by 6 no matter what time he goes to bed. He is also usually awake for a few hours during the night as well ( has severe sn). Not much sleep goes on in this house.

'i have friends who complain their kids get up early but always put them to bed also .'

The kids aren't getting up early because they were put to bed early. The parents have to put them to bed at 6 because they get up early.

Tried that, just ended up with a grumpy miserable child who hadn't had enough sleep.

Mine were always in bed at 6.30 when they were small, always got up about 7. I had no energy for parenting after that point in the evening. Even now at 10 and 12 it's bed at 8.30 weekdays, 9 at weekends. I've got important adult tv to watch!

Dd gets up at 5.30 every morning. Regardless of when she goes to bed. Normally asleep between 6.30 and 7 but last week she did stay up till midnight and still got up at 5.30!!