Do your children go a bit, well maybe more, wild in the evenings?

[Buddleja]

My two go bonkers just before/around bed time.

More shouting, more jumping, more fighting, more bouncing more everything all at once than they do during the day.

Am I alone with this?

Nope you're not alone. We get hyper DD and whatever song she feels like bouncing round the front room to for a good hour or so before bed time. She gets louder when the Cbeebies bed time hour comes on and the volume increases steadily until she closes her eyes. Drives me insane!

Ah ha!!

So THAT'S what the witching hour is. I'd heard of it but for some reason hadn't collated the two things.

I'd always thought it referred to the time between dinner/tea and bed when you wished it all would go faster so you could sit down and put your feet up.

Mind you unless you are very fast that would be more than an hour .

Brian doesn't work anymore. I blame the kids.

Brain not Brain [grin}

or "not Brian" even.

Might go lie down ...

Yup my DD 3 yrs has the same wild time, usually when she's really tired. However, my OH always has a laugh when I talk about it as he says I am exactly the same and turn into a whirlwind in the last hour before bed when I am really tired so they may never grow out of it I guess

yup ds1, 2 and 3 like that - I never believed the phase 'over tired' till I had children! thank god they are all asleep by 7pm

Yes, DD has always been more giddy in the run up to bedtime. She still is a bit at 8y. Her and DH oten have silly games, pretend fighting and los of noisy run around play before bed. No such thing as winding down int his household!

DD just gets a bit naughty and irritable/irritating, but 15mo DS goes NUTS in the last hour or two, just before bathtime and through til he goes to sleep.

He climbs with gusto, up the coffee table, the dining table, tries to throw himself out of the bath, ad infinitum. Is quite hilarious but also stressful!

Mine always have a "nutty half hour" which coincides with dp coming home from work, I retreat to the kitchen and leave him to it! When we were children we were the same, we would strip to crop tops and knickers to play gladiators My mum would always tell us it would end in tears and she was right.

I refer to it as the Star Trek time - "loss of impulse control". The filter that makes them stop and think for a nano second before doing things switches off. Oh joy!

Same with mine. I used to think it was caused by the arrival home of 'Crazy Daddy'; but he's been away with work, and they still climb right onto the back of the sofa and bouce down! I just let them run off steam downstairs, so when we get up to bed, hopefully it's out of their system!

Not as of yet, DTs, 2.4, maraud around the garden all day long and are pretty much ready for snoozes when clock strickes 7. However, bracing myself for the witching hour when/if it arrives

Oh like cats? They often have a mad half hour too.

DD is exactly the same.

Reminds me of Where the Wild Things Are

I actually love this time of night - a. it is extremely funny to watch and b. signals the end of another wonderful day (ie. time for hot chocolate, recorded programs on sky plus once they are fast asleep!)

Fine once been in bath and settle well for book time. - except when daddy is loving it so much, he is no here every evening, he continues the fun - then he puts to bed once wound back down again!!!