To ask what time your DCs go to bed and their age?

[Goosey3]

Been living in a temporary house for a few weeks now - we’re here until our new house is ready. Have always lived in semi-detached where none of our main living space has adjoining walls with next door (lounge/bedrooms etc).
In this current house our lounge has an adjoining wall with the neighbour, as does our bedroom so for the first time I’m very aware of the noise from next door.

Really lovely family around the same age as DH and I. They have 2 children - ages 7y and 15m. Both of their children seem to go to bed around 10.30/11pm each night! It struck me as being pretty late but whatever works for their family I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ Tonight I can hear the kids singing and laughing and it sounds like they’re watching a kids TV show of some kind 🤷🏻‍♀️ One with lots of songs lol

We just have 1 DS at 1.5years and he’s usually asleep by 7/7.30pm on a good night. Usually 8ish on a bad night.

Just curious really - what age are your DC and what time is “bedtime” in your house? 😊

11 and 12 year old. Bedtime is 930pm.. to be honest I go to bed then too. We are all up at 7am. Weekends they can stay up later....

6 yr old here, 7pm we go up for bath and light off usually 7.30

We did bedtime at 7pm until the kids were about 8, sometimes a little earlier as they both got tired. Then gradually later until around 9pm when they were 11/12. They are older teens now and there is no fixed bedtime. DS tends to go to bed around 11pm and DD at 10:30pm. They go around the same time as me now. DS could not manage late evenings as a young child and wanted to go to bed at 7 even when we were out / at parties. DD loved a late night every now and then from very young. I don’t think it matters as long as they are fresh and not habitually grumpy through tiredness in the morning.

10yo bed at 8. Lights out at 8.30 unless we forget to remind them in which case they read until 10. Needs waking at 7.
12yo bed at 9 - only scouts and cadets and drama all finish later than this so mid week it's nearer to 10.15. up at 5.30.
Like DH, my kids don't need a lit of sleep.

3 year old - 7-7.30pm
11 month old - 6.30pm
i couldn’t even stay up until 10:30/11 😂

Dd12 chooses her own bed time. She generally takes herself off by 10.30 on a school night and is always up. She leaves for school after I leave for work too and has never once been late. Weekends and holidays who knows what time she goes as I'm long asleep but never has any trouble getting up if there's something we need to be up early for, otherwise she might sleep til 8.30 or so then stay in bed reading or on a device for an hour

No idea at 16 & 17. We are up at 6am so probably not late. Personally I aim for 9.30 in bed. Sleep is another thing though.

Our 3.5 son go to bed at 8 and is usually asleep by 8:30. He's still having a two hour nap which he's in the process of dropping so I think it'll be quite early once he drops it.

16, and no idea as it's after me, it's been after me for a while as I'm up at 6 and he's only 10 minutes walk from school. Before that it was required wake up time minus however many hours sleep, when he was in breakfast club he only needed enough time to get up and dressed. Never an early riser or up before me.

My 2 are 13 and 15 and they go to bed at 9! They have to be up at 6.30 and have such busy days with sport and work that they need a good nights sleep. I go to bed the same sort of time, I just think sleep is soooo important, it can't really be underestimated. They do go to bed later at weekends but then they'll sleep in till 10/11 so they need at least 8 hours but more like 10.

DS had told me he was in bed but often reading until midnight in year 7!

9 year old goes up at 7 and sleep at 8. 11 year old is 9.30

Almost 2yr-old goes to bed at 7.

7 and 5, 7.30/45, usually both asleep by 8, on weekends 7 year old will wait for 5 year old to fall asleep and get up and come hang out with me for half an hour.

DS is 8, nearly 9 and goes to bed at 8pm.

And he usually wakes up any time betwee 6 and 7. We leave the house at 8.15.

Do they actually want to go this early or are you enforcing it? Do you just want them out of your hair? 10/11 year olds shouldn't be going to bed at 6.30 unless they're ill.

DDs are 5 and 3. Both go upstairs to bed at 7pm, probably settling down to sleep around 7.30pm.

10 yo Y6, depends on activities, but usually asleep by 930. Wake up at 6am without fail. Even at the weekends 🤦🏻‍♀️

Year 5 and 6, both go at 9pm. Wake up around 7am.

What time do they wake up, out of interest?

I expect people think YABU because those are extremely early bedtimes and might think you're just trying to get them out the way for the evening. Unless there is a massive back story I can't see why an 11 year old needs to go to bed as early as 7.30.

2 year old and almost 1 year old both go to bed at 7. Youngest usually asleep by 7.30/8, eldest not usually until 8.30/9, but they'll both just lay in their beds and unwind and have a gibber to their teddies until they fall asleep

That's not true, recommended sleep for 6-12 year old is 9-12 hours sleep a night.

I always find it interesting how critical people are when they realise that my children go to bed early, no I don't want them 'out of my hair' I just believe that good sleep routines are very important, however I do think genetics has a part to play, we are larks whilst others are owls.

One night owl, one lark.

Both at 11pm, mainly because I don’t finish work until 10 so everyone gets a bedtime hug.

12 year old lark falls asleep in minutes and is up on time for school. He slept through the night as a baby too.

15 year old night owl struggles to fall asleep and foghorns wouldn’t wake her. She woke every 3 hours on the dot as a baby.

She wants to self regulate her bedtime now and I’m considering it.

DS and I are larks too but he still goes to bed at 8pm at 8 years old! He was up at ten past 6 this morning. Do yours sleep a full 12 hours every single night? That's quite unusual.