What time does your 10 year old go to bed?

[Dancergirl]

That's it really. My 10 year old dd has always been a night owl - finds it hard to fall asleep at night and hard to wake up in the morning.

I don't want her lying there tossing and turning for hours so usually her light goes off between 9 - 9.30pm. And even then it takes a good while for her to fall asleep. But it seems late for a 10 year old....

8.30.

Does your dd get much physical activity in a day? DD finds it hard to fall asleep on days she has not exerted herself physically.

What time does your dd get up in the morning?

My 10 yr old is asleep between 8 and 8.30pm. She has to be up at 6.20 for school and even when she goes to bed at 8/8.30, its still an effort to get her out of bed.

She'd be exhausted if she didnt go till 10 every night.

She doesn't have to get up till about 7.50am. Obviously that will change next year with secondary school!

Earlybird - I would say she's quite active. Usual PE stuff at school and she does a lot of ballet. But if anything ballet wakes her up even more!

Goodness she gets to sleep late!

As I said, dd is in bed with lights out by 8.30 and is up by 6.30 - 6.45. So, she seems to be getting roughly the same amount of sleep as your dd.

DS turns his lights off at 9-9.15. He wakes up at 7.40 for school, although often is already awake when I go to his room.

I think it's about right, though-9 til 7.50 = almost 11 hours which I believe is right for that age.

Mine is up at 7.15. She finds it hard to switch off at night and hard to get up in the morning. She and her sister both get ready for bed at 8 and are allowed to listen to quiet music. Her little sister is usually asleep before nine, which is when the music is switched off. Sometimes she can still be lying wide awake in bed when I am going to bed, but then I remember finding it hard to sleep when I was her age and watching the clock getting later and later and not being able to drop off.

She tends to catch up on a bit of sleep on a Sat and Sun morning, but we don't let her sleep in too late so as not to spoil her routine.

Many of her friends stay up later and a lot of the 10 year olds I have taught have ridiculously late bedtimes (if you can call playing on the Xbox/watching TV til they fall asleep a bedtime!).

Mine is lying in bed ATM, he likes to have someone sit in with him. Should be asleep in about 10 mins. He's the youngest of three, and I suppose I'm a bit more lax in that he tends to start watching whatever the others are watching on telly, then I suddenly realise it's 9pm/9.30.
But his siblings, esp DS1, were late to sleep as well - the difference is, I spent much more time fretting and reading stories, trying to will him to sleep, rather than letting him go up when he was tired and could pretty much go straight to sleep.
He gets up at 7.30 on school days, which I think is fairly civilised.

Between 8-9 pm...depending on when I've had enough of him.

8pm on school night later in the weekend.

It's funny we were talking about this today as DD (10) came home and said she felt embarrased about the time she goes to bed as her friends go to bed 9, 9.30 and later.

DD is 9y (y5). On school nights she goes to bed between 8 and 9pm. If 8pm then she will read. Lights out at 9pm. Depends on after school activities, etc.

Weekends are flexible.

Dd is also a night owl; always has been.

DD has to be up just after 7am for school.

9 -9.30 but asleep straight away these days, up at 7. Think 10-11 hours is recommended

9 -9.30 but asleep straight away these days, up at 7. Think 10-11 hours is recommended

I'm intruiged about where all your children are going to school that they have to be up so early...?

Mine goes at 9pm (well, she's supposed to), but she's out like a light, then is up and dressed before everyone else in the morning (I'm not even sure what time she gets up, but it must be well before 7am).

mine is in bed and reading by 9

officially lights out at 9.30 but usually she has already turned it off when I go up to tell her

up at 7.15 if it's one of my workdays -she goes to breakfast club
up at 7.45 if it's my day off from work

bedtime stays the same at the weekend and the latest she will slepp is 9am but this is very unusual

dd has just started Big School, and so second other posters - sleeping pattern will be well sorted out when she goes to secondary school. dd and all her friends flake out in the evening. No night-owling at all.

DS is 10, goes to bed 9-9.30am up at 7am for school and would sleep at least another hour if he could. I would like him to go to bed earlier but once sport, homework, dinner, shower are done its 9pm!

Lol - they don't have to get up at 7 in our house but sadly they do

Lol - they don't have to get up at 7 in our house but sadly they do

8pm here. She has to get up a 6am for school (bus leaves at 7am) so she gets 10 hours sleep, which seems to be enough. She often complains that her friends go to bed later but I know she would cranky as hell on less than 10 hours sleep, so I stick to my "mean rule."

My daughter has just turned 10, she goes to sleep at 9-12 usually, and i wake her up to give her a hug and kiss at 5 in the morning before leaving to work. She then sleeps till 8-10