What is the 'right' bedtime for your little one?

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Hi, I've just read an article in the Daily Mail suggesting that 8.10pm is the right bedtime for a 2.5 to 3yr old. Seems late to me and to be honest I've had enough by 7 but my DD can be a real pickle at bedtime. What do you wise ones think?

DD is 3.6 and in theory goes at 7, though in reality she could be having stories read to her for an hour after that.

I don't think you can generalise. When DS was smaller he had to go to bed at 6 most nights, which seemed ludicrously early but it suited him. Even now (at the ripe old age of 22 months!) he sometimes finds it difficult to get past 6.

DD is just turned 3 and has gone at 7.30 since 4/5 months. She sleeps from then until 7-8.30 and it works perfectly for us.

19mo goes down at 7pm sharp (usually). Long may it last!

DS always went to bed at 7pm to sleep until DTwins arrived and he turned 8 and we moved it to 7:30/8pm. (9pm weekends mostly).

DT 1 (boy) goes to bed at 7:15 and up 5:30/6 if he goes any earlier he wakes at 5am!! DT 2 (girl) struggles to make it past 6:20 up at 6 and they are 10 months. I like evenings to myself and encourage ds1 to play quietly in the evenings.

When I was younger up until my late teens I wasn't really encouraged to be downstairs after 7/8pm and was expected to take a drink and snack upstairs to my bedroom and go to bed when I was ready from about 11 years old. I have always gone to bed early and was asleep by 9pm until I was about 17/18!

I'd have loved DS to have been in bed by that time at that age, but it was nearer 9! We didn't get home until about 6.30pm though, so having dinner and getting him settled by 8 would have been impossible. I don't think it did him any harm though. Now he's at school and we get home a bit earlier he's down by 8 quite happily though.

I'm at anything the DM says.

My ds was ready for bed between 7-7.30pm at that age as was still napping. Now at 4, it's similar without the nap. My dd, who's 2, goes down at about 7.30/8 she has a nap still.

So whatever works. If your dd is tired at 7, then bedtime at 7 it is!

DS is 20 months and he goes to bed at around 6.30pm. Until he was a year old it was 5.45pm! On a good night he sleeps 6.30-630.

DD1 has been a 10pm from about the age of 2 to 4.

Still she was a midnight child from birth so it was an improvement.

Now she's at school it's 9pm (sometimes)

DD2 is a 6-6.30pm child.

I love having a lark and an owl, I really do oh no I don't as I never get a bleddy minute of peace