What time are your kids going to bed over the summer holidays?

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Aged 9, 12 and 14. No rush to get up in the morning.

While we were on holiday last month my 8 year old was going to bed between 10 and 11 most nights because he wanted to stay up and play cards with the rest of us. No idea when my 15 year old was going to bed. Now we're home and I have to be up at half 4 for work my 8 year old has to be in bed by 9 (he doesn't need to get up at any particular time) and my teen goes to bed when she wants but has to get herself up in the morning for her summer job so probably not too late.

We are very relaxed when on holiday. Children are 5 and 8 and currently go to bed at 8.30. In the holidays it's probably 9-10 and if actually away on holiday it could be midnight as we do lots of theme parks and cities and are out watching fireworks or late theatre shows etc.

Whenever we do

On a holiday or just the general summer school holiday?
DC 5 & 2 typically go to bed at 7pm ish but on oldest summer holidays from school it’s more like 8-8:30. They don’t sleep longer but it allows for a more flexible evening.

On an abroad holiday they would stay up until around 10pm ish.

Whenever they want to really. 7 year old is autistic and doesn’t sleep before 9pm anyway. 12 and 10 year olds will probably go at about 9-9.30 unless there’s a particular reason to stay up later (family
film night or meal out or something). Neither of them see the sense in staying up late for the sake of it!

Mine have to go at roughly the same time every evening because they don't necessarily lie in and that makes everyone miserable if we don't get any sleep. Exceptionally, we'll let them stay up a bit more ( Theatre show, sleepover). Once a year I reckon.
So 10.ish for the soon to.be 11 years old, and 9 ish for the soon to be 7 years old. No point being tired and miserable on holiday!

I take my 8yo grandson on holiday on my own and it's flexible. We often don't eat dinner until 7:30-8pm, so he will be up for a while after that. But that being said he will be encouraged to go to sleep before I go to sleep so I can have some headspace to myself and unwind after busy and active days.

If we have had a very active day and climbed a mountain or done a long hike, he may well ask to go to sleep relatively quickly after dinner.

Teen and tween, when they feel tired / 10pm whichever is the earlier. They can read if they want to, and they'll usually head to bed around 9-9:30 for some book time. They rarely get to 10pm, as they've learned they feel like crap if they don't get sufficient sleep and they almost always wake naturally at their normal waking time.

We usually shifted by up to an hour.
Then spent the last week of the holiday shifting back.

Last year (13 and 10) they pretty much went to bed same time as we did whilst we were away and around 9.30 at home.

I fear this year we will lose any adult time at all for the whole 6 weeks!

When they were little I let it slide a bit but didn’t want to mess up their routine too much so maybe half an hour later than usual.

Usual times as they are up at 6am as they always are. We just keep same routine for their sakes.