Does anyone else do dinner at 6pm and bed at 7pm with small children?

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We have always ate when dh gets in a 6pm, but now my oldest has started school she is exhausted and needs to be in bed by 7pm otherwise she is a nightmare the next day. I am reluctant to bring dinner forward as I like us all eating together, but am struggling with the oldest dd literally eating her dinner and then straight up to get ready for bed! Is anyone else like this??

No feed the kids at tea time and we eat after they're in bed. They eat around 5 and I don't get in until 615. They're in reception so sure it will change as they get older. Saturday and Sunday we eat together.

DD and I eat at 4.30/5pm and she is in bed by 7pm. Even though I give snack after school, she is just too ravenous. DH only eats a snack or sandwhich when he comes home from work, so never felt the need to alter it really.

Husband does shifts so we try where possible to eat together. On occasions we were eating at 6 I'd bath the children before tea then once tea was over we'd have time to cuddle and read before 7pm bed time.

Little one eats at 4.30, then supper and bed by 7. I eat my dinner with dh about 8pm. Think they need time inbetween eating a big meal and going bed- is an hour enough.

We eat at 6pm and always have - like you to eat all together. Kids go up at 7.30pm, teeth, PJs, stories - I come down around 8.15pm (I read them a story each, 3 kids, older ones have chapters of books so longer than a picture book and they all listen to all 3 stories - DH does bedtime quicker as he only reads one story).

My kids have a cooked lunch at home at about 1.15pm - we're abroad and school is over for children of all ages by 1pm at the latest, there are no school lunches. Perhaps that makes "waiting" til 6pm for dinner less of a problem - I would find it weird and Victorian giving them a "children's tea" at 5pm and then having a separate adult dinner, and the evening meal time is often when the children reveal strange and amusing things about their day they haven't thought to mention til we all sit down together around the table.

My youngest is 4 and my eldest has to be up at 5.45am on a school day for a 6.30am school bus, and DC2 at 6.15am for a 7am school bus, youngest could sleep til 7am but never does - in practice the whole house is up by 6am. 6.15am breakfast, they take a sandwich to school to eat at 9.30am, lunch at 1.15, dinner at 6pm, bed at 7.30pm... have done that since before the youngest was born and it still works...

I'd honestly never heard of anyone eating dinner/supper at 4.30 before this thread!!!