Bath and bed time

[Pudding20]

How long does your bed time routine generally take with your child?
Aged 3+

Im talking from the moment you ascend upstairs to the time they get into bed

About 20 mins

Maybe 45 minutes on a school night, sometimes more and sometimes less. We don't do a bath every night (it's always "wound up" our eldest before bedtime!) but every other night. With a bath it's about an hour.

We always do a story and then we have a chat about the day and then it's lights out at about 7.30

A good night 20-30 minutes. Some times we go up early to do a jigsaw before PJ's teeth story bed and mouth wash and another story sleep 5-10 minutes

If she has a bath it is a 20 minute bath. 20 minutes running as high as a kite. 20 minutes to do PJ's. 20 minutes to do story mouth wash and another 15-20 minutes for sleep. She only baths every 7-10 days because of this!

An average night is 30 minutes for bed time routine and 10minutes to sleep

Almost 3 year old. We head upstairs at 6. Run the bath whilst she jumps on the bed/runs around getting off last bit of energy. Any attempt to calm things down is pointless. Then into bath by 6:15 latest and out of bath 6:30. Into a dark bedroom room with hall light on. A lot of distraction techniques needed to get dry and get pyjamas on and teeth brushed. Then into bed and 5 minutes of singing/books/hand holding. We leave the room between 6:45-7 turn all lights off. She shouts for up to 1 minute and then goes to sleep. But once we leave that room, we do not return. It is probably the only discipline we are consistent with!