Tea/dinner at 4pm?

[nappyaddict]

If your DC have their main meal at 4pm do they have anything else before they go to bed?

4pm? What time do they go to bed?

We eat at 6 or 6.30, then I can eat with them too and not feel like its still the middle of the day.

When my DC were younger they used to eat at about 4.30pm as they would be in bed by 6pm. So they didn't have anything more before bed.

But now they are all in school at least one of them often isn't home from after school clubs till 5 or 6, so we eat together at 6pm.

mine eat sometime between 5 and 5.30pm and me and dh eat later when the kids are in bed.

5 and 5.30 here we used to eat earliar but they were always starving again by 6pm.

DH used to feed the girls at around 4.30 - 5 then we would eat later - however, since the school holiday we have all started eating together at 6 pm and it works really well.

My DD's are 6, 3 and 2 btw. They get to have a bedtime snack before bed too - like a biscuit or some grapes/strawberrys etc

My DD (3.6) eats at 4 and is in bed by 6. She doesn't have anything in between. Although if it were up to her she would graze right up until bedtime

Is it lights out at 6 or does she have stories etc first?

my dd9 and dd3 eat dinner at 4-4.30 and then have snacks at 6ish.i give them dinner early so they eat it and not fill up on snacks and not eat dinner.my dd3 goes to bed at 7 and dd9 goes at 8

When i'm working,(3days week), my dc eat dinner at their grannys at 4/4.30, which is a real help. They usually have some toast& cheese at about 7 and then get sorted for story and bed at 8.

She does have a story first and looks a books too, but she absolutely loves and needs her sleep.

DS is the same. What time is it lights out?

DD has her dinner at 6ish depending on how fast I can cook. Dh is just in through the door at 6.30 so we have our dinner together at 7.30 and dd has her pudding (usually sliced fruit) sitting with us. Bedtime for dd is 8pm.

Crikey. DD has her dinner between 6 and 7.30pm and goes to bed between 8 and 8.30pm.

If I out her to bed at 6pm she'd be up and raring to go at 3 in the morning!!

Oh how I wish I had a toddler that slept long and deeply .

Bunny, we have the same problem. If dd went to bed before 8, she'd be bouncing off the walls at 4 and would be exhausted by the time we set off for school at 8.15! It was such a relief when it dawned on us that a late bedtime isn't the worst thing in the world . DD now wakes up at 7.15 bright as a button with ample time for getting dressed and the obligatory time-squandering and we're out of the house bang on time with nary a problem

Sorry for going off-track, OP

Glad it's not just us Lutyens .

Sometimes it feels like DP and I don't have much time together in the evenings (I work a few evenings a week too) but putting her to bed later is the only way to ensure we'll all get a vaguely normal night's sleep.

Even when she goes down at 8.30pm she still sometimes wakes up at 3-4am and that's after a full day of playgroup/the park/playdates .

My DC have a snack around 4, some fruit or a biscuit or maybe a piece of toast and a drink. We then eat at 6pm as a family when DP comes home. I personally think family meal times are really important for communicating with each other so make a point of having a meal together every day. My DC range in age from 11 to 1 year. At the moment they all go to bed around 8-8.30 but my eldest DD has half hour reading time after that. The youngest ones usually wake around 7am but then I wake 11 year old at 7.30am.I have often contemplated an earlier bed time but then they wouldn't see their dad on weekdays if I did that.

mine have just started school and nursery and are wiped out in the afternoons, so we've been eating at 5 and they've been asleep by 6.30pm. LONG may it last...

Ds has a snack when he gets home from school fruit, toast or cheese and crackers, then we eat dinner at 6 when dp gets home from work. He's 6 and goes to bed at 7ish. Dd on the other hand is a law unto herself

My Dcs (5 & 2) have tea at 4/4.30.

DD goes to bed at 6/6.30 with a beaker of milk.

DS then has a cheese string & apple once DD is in bed and goes up to bed himself around 7

I eat once kids are in bed with a glass of wine

DS have tea/ dinner at 4.30 - 5pm if no clubs after school.Normally have cereal or toast about 7-8pm.

Nappyaddict, bed at 6, lights out at 6.15 usually.

DS went to bed at 5:30 today!! Hope he gets used to being at school soon, else we are going to get in the cycle of him getting up ridiculously early then being shattered by 5 and going straight to sleep.

My kids have a snack around 4pm & the dinner sometime between 5.30/6.30

I am seriously and simultaneously at this thread!

So for those of you whose dcs go down between 5.30/6.30pm, do they sleep right through till 7am???

DS goes to sleep about 6:30 (in bed between 6 and 6.15) and gets up about 6:30.