What time does your nearly 3 year old go to bed?

[Elisabeth3468]

DS is 2 years 10 months. A couple of months ago he started the process of dropping his day time nap and he went weeks where he didn't nap and then he would need them again. I would say we are now consistently no nap at all (maybe the odd one in the car but rarely). This has meant bed time has shifted earlier. Recently we've been experiencing a lot of tantrums /meltdowns near bed time and can last for ages and that's when we were starting the routine at 6ish and aiming for sleep between 645/7pm. The past 4 nights he's had tantrums and fell asleep after 7 because he is so over tired and just cries.
Tonight I decided to try it all earlier so started the routine at 5.30. We had zero tantrums and he was asleep for 6.15.
I just find it sooooo early (I'm not complaining) but is this a common time to go to sleep for their age? He wakes between 6.45-7.30 so clearly needs the rest.
Before this his bedtime was more past 8pm.
What time does your toddler go to sleep with no nap?

Dropping naps and bringing bed time earlier is common but great that it worked for you
Yes it is early but if they slept through
I think this age the recommendation is they still need 11-14 hours ......
remember its just a phase and maybe in the future as they adjust you can start pushing the bed time back again🤷🏻‍♀️

Mine is the same age.

When he first dropped the nap, he’d go to bed at 6:30ish, or he’d be so tired he’d get really overwhelmed.

2/3 months down the line and he now goes to bed at 8:30. He’d probably fall asleep at 7:30/8pm, but he doesn’t sleep through if he does. He’s not desperately tired or chaotic anymore, but we do have a slightly longer bedtime routine - we now do 20 minutes of stories, so bedtime tends to start around 7:45/8pm depending on how he’s doing and if he asks to go to bed.

When naps were dropped we had a year of going to bed around 6.15 to 6.40.

3yr DS dropped naps just after his 2nd bday. Bedtime moved to 6.30 and is still 6.30 over a year on - he’s asleep within 5/10 mins (though still fed to sleep so that helps!) and tends to sleep through til about 6.30/7.

DD is 2 years 8 months and dropped her nap in July- except some car naps.
She has been going to bed at 6:30 since then but in the last few weeks we noticed she was starting to wake earlier again- pre dropping the nap she was a 5:30 waker but it then moved to 6:30ish. So the last few days we have put her down about 7pm.

DD1 is 3yr 3month. She has dropped her nap at nursery and on those nights we are having to start bedtime routine almost as soon as she gets in so that she is ready to sleep by 6.30pm. I usually have to wake her at 8am so she obviously needs the early sleep. She will still have a nap at the weekend, so bedtime a bit later and a bit more relaxed - probably start routine at around 6.45/7 and asleep at 8pm. As pp have said, I'm hoping it's just for a bit as it would be nice for DH to have a bit more time with her when he finishes work in the week and for me when my mat leave ends.

Thanks all! Seems pretty standard then when they drop the nap. I'm having to give him his dinner separately at 430/5ish and we are eating later which isn't great as we like to eat together but I can't eat that early and partner doesn't even finish work until 5pm x

DS is 2 years, 7 months and is in the process of dropping his nap. He still naps a bit on nursery days but at home he just chats to himself in the dark for an hour before I get him up.
We used to do bedtime at 7pm, with lights out at 7:20. Now we're doing it at 6:15 and lights out at 6:30.

The trouble is he has a light with a digital clock on it in his room and he's obsessed with numbers. We've had to change the time on the clock in his room and hide our watches at bath time / bed time because if he knows we're putting him to bed early he'll fight it.

He wakes between 6:30 - 7:15 am, with a fixed 7am wake up on nursery days.