What time do you put your 9 year old to bed?

[starrynights8]

Dd is just turning 9 and thinks her bedtime is too early. She goes to bed at 7 does this sound too early on a school night?

Just to add she goes up at 7 and has a dvd to watch while she falls asleep.

Bed or sleep?

My 8 year old goes up at 7.30pm, showers etc. In bed for 8pm. Reads until lights off at 8.30pm

Our 9 year old goes to bed at 8.30 / asleep by 9 and she wakes naturally at 7. Seems to be enough for her.
Will be different for each child I guess.

My 8.5 year old goes up just before 8pm and then reads till 8.30pm. Then lights out.

My 8 year old never falls asleep before 9.30pm. She is a night owl. Doesn't wake until 8.30-9am if left to sleep on.

Mine watches tv with us and then bed at 8.15. She says she struggles to get to sleep “so early” but the reality is I have to wake her for school every morning.

My 9 year old goes to bed 8/8.30pm and will often read for a bit in bed, so is probably falling asleep around 9pm. Although I'm a huge advocate for children getting enough sleep, I have noticed a big change in how much sleep he seems to need in the last 12 months. Initially I battled against it, but he'd just lay awake for ages before nodding off, now he goes to bed a bit later and goes to sleep quickly. Hasn't impacted wake ups (wakes up at 7.30pm) for school and tends to sleep in extra at weekends.

DS1 nearly 9 - 9.30. Up at 7 usually.

I don’t think watching a dvd to go to sleep is helpful.

Mine wouldn’t be home from activities at 7pm

8pm with an 8.30pm actual sleep time was more like it.

the NHS recommends 9-12 hours for 6-12 year olds. So if we assume say 10.5 hours as a mid point for the mid age point, then unless she’s up at 5.30am every day 7pm is quite early.

At 9 years old bed time was 8:30/9pm here. I don’t allow screens to fall asleep to though - I don’t understand that idea.

That does seem early to me! My 8 year old goes to bed about 8.30/9. Often later in the summer/ during the holidays. Are they tired at that time?

Seems a bit early but depends entirely on wake up times. When 9 my twins would go to bed as in lights out at 930-1000 but didn’t need to get up till 0700-0730. Daughter usually went straight to sleep and son took half an our or so

Weekends and holidays later

I would be very pleased my 9yo did that, but he has sports clubs til 8pm 3 nights and so he goes to be at 9-9.30 and sleeps til 7.45

8 year old DS goes to bed between 7-7:30 depending on activities, homework, time of dinner etc. On a weekend I’ll stretch this to 8-8:30. If ever he isn’t tired he can have reading time for half an hour or so, but I don’t let him come downstairs or wander about. He generally wakes up at 7am.

It does seem a bit early then. She isn't tired at 7 but she has trouble sleeping and as a result is tired in the morning so I thought get to bed early and get a good nights sleep but she's saying it's too early.
The dvd is just to help get off to sleep.
Perhaps we'll try a bit later and see how she gets on.

Depends what time they have to wake up and how much sleep they need. Mine needs 11 hours so I like him asleep by 8:30, into bed at 8, up at 7:30

9yo dd goes to bed at 8.30, asleep by 9.30 and up at 5.30. Weekends she's asleep by 10.30ish and up at 5.30.

9pm. She is up at 6.20am to get ready to leave for school. I work at her school and run the breakfast club so it is very early. She never seems naggy though. She is very chilled. I do think it is because she is our 3rd child. I'm a bit more relaxed about bedtime.

We're up at 7 so quite an early start.

My 6 year old is 8.30. My 11 year old is 9.30. We get up at 7.

My 9 year old goes at 8.30pm. She was at football training until 8pm tonight and is at dance class until 7.30pm on a Thursday so it would be a struggle to get her down earlier.

OP could it be that she has trouble sleeping because she's going to bed when she's not tired then tossing and turning? Or has this always been an issue?

Ds lights out at 8.30 asleep by about 8.50. Up at 7.