bedtime for a 4 year old?

[emily05]

ds has just started school and I am wondering what time his bedtime should be?

at the moment it is 7 - but he gets up so early starting to think 8pm might be better? is 11 hours sleep be ok for a 4 year old?
thanks

7.30 for mine. Enough time to see his dad wehn he gets home from work and still be ready to get up a 7 next morning.

8pm for mine (both boys have always had a 8pm bedtime since they were babies).

I try and aim for ds to be in bed by 7pm but most of the time it's nearer 7.30 and he only tends to fall asleep around 8ish (after nattering endlessly with his sis!)

thanks guys I think that I might try 7.30 - 8 - as it will give him a little more time with dh.

thanks

My 4 year old goes at 7 and always gets up between 6 and 7.

If I try and give her a later bedtime she gets grumpy as she wants to go to bed, she starts asking to go to bed about 6pm, and, if we do get her to stop up later she still gets up at the same time.

Between 7 and 8 for mine. It used to be a strict 7pm but now I tend to put ds2 and ds3 down and keep ds1 up for an extra half an hour and he usually does his school reading book or spellings in peace!

It also helps because this way, ds2 often is asleep by the time ds1 goes up - they share a room and if they go up together they muck about for an hour.

My youngest ds has just started school too, he'll be 5 in December - I start the bath running at 7, so he's generally in bed for 7.30-7.45ish. He gets up before 6 most days and I've found that it makes no difference what time he goes to bed - he still gets up at the crack of dawn

marthamoo - mine are the same (all 3 of them) - they get up at 6. If I put them to bed later, they just get up at 6 but grumpy!

Yes - they always wake at the crack of dawn, regardless of how late /early you put them to bed. If it was late, they are just grumpy and difficult all day.

I am not sure a later bedtime will equal later wake up.Sometimes they just wake up at that time regardless.
My dd is 4 and just started fulltime school.Here is what her bedtime routine is like-
5:30-dinnertime.
6pm-t.v. time with a cup of milk
6:30-bathtime.
7pm-teeth brushed,pyjamas on.Bedtime story.
7:20-say goodnight,hug kiss.Light out.
7:30-she is nearly always asleep by now.
She wakes up at 7am-always has done.
I also have a ds who is 6yrs and another dd who is 2yrs.They basicly have the same routine except ds is allowed to read until 7:40 and light out then.He is usually asleep at 7:50