How many hours does your six year old sleep a night?

[Newsenmum]

Trying to work out what’s normal and what we just need to put up with. 😄

Around 10, and he’s a late sleeper too - usually asleep between 9-9:30. Has to be woken up around 7:30 or we’re late for school. He’d rather sleep until 8. He does wake anywhere between 3-5 and come into our bed most nights (he’s not quite 6 just yet)

I suspect my child has low sleep needs - but generally she goes to sleep around 9 and wakes up at 6

Have an almost 6 year old and he normally sleeps 10-11 hours but he didn't consistently sleep through the night until well over three.

11.5hrs
7.30pm- 7am

I had one that slept for 12 hours one that did 9 and 2 that more like 10/11 hours

Usually asleep about 8pm (sometimes later) and awake anywhere between 4-6am. We get spells of night waking too, sometimes anywhere between 1-3 hours at a time. We usually end up playing musical beds too. He's in with me now having already woken twice tonight, but he is currently asleep! He's autistic and waiting for an ADHD assessment.

Between 11-12

11, like clockwork. Occasional car nap on a long drive doesn't affect it, his body clock is very firmly set at 7.30 - 6.30

7:30pm-5:30am roughly, so around 10 hours. But sometimes he'll still be up at 8pm/8:30pm (and still wakes at 5:30am). Or he'll have a lie in until 6am.

This is so dreamy

Mine also diagnosed asd and awaiting adhd diagnosis. We are currently asleep around 7:30, wakes in the night to come into us and then up playing anywhere between 4 and 5:30.

I would love this so much. 😭

That sounds really tough. Do you take it in turns to get up with him so you at least get to sleep in a bit later every other day?
I'm not sure there is much you can do if they just need less sleep unfortunately! Hopefully soon he will at least be sensible enough to get up, play quietly and not wake you!

We used to have split nights really badly up until he was about 4, where he would be awake for 4-5 hours every night and that was a killer.

We take the approach that as long as everyone is getting enough sleep, that'll do. We have a minimum of a double bed in every room, which allows for musical beds relatively comfortably whatever the set up. When we have a particularly bad run of nights, we survive in whatever way we can in the week then we will tag team it at the weekend - I usually supervise the night waking whilst my husband sleeps (he'd sleep through a bomb dropping on the house!) then anything beyond 5am he takes over and I have a couple more hours sleep. We go through various periods of him sleeping independently all night, coming in during the night, and just starting off in our room at bedtime.

Mostly we just go with the flow, there's enough stress in life as it is, I refuse to add bedtimes and mealtimes to that!

Mine is 7, but nothing has really changed about our routine. He’s asleep between 9:30-10pm and up between 6-7am, so maybe 9 hours on average?

We are not a children’s tea and early to bed house though and never have been. We eat dinner 7:30-8pm. My other dc often has sports training til 9pm a few nights a week. But he wakes up naturally every morning so he’s getting plenty of sleep.

5 nearly 6 year olds. they're asleep by 8.15 I'd say, and they wake up from anything from 6.30 generally. sometimes by themselves or sometimes I have to praise them from their beds (weirdly the earlier time is them getting up alone, the later one is me getting them up)

It depends on the child, they are all different.

Mine gets ready for bed at 7pm, we have two bedtime stories then he gets into bed and talks, plays with his soft toys, sings and then goes out like a light at 8pm. He wakes up when he sees daylight, so in the summer that can be anytime from 6.30 am but now that the clocks have changed and it’s dark in the morning he doesn’t wake until 7.30/8 am.

When my six year old wakes he can’t stay in bed, he has to get up and leave his room. My other child at that age would have just pottered about in his room until I went to get him.

Mine is autistic and I suspect ADHD. He sleeps for around seven hours a night. It’s not for lack of trying either.

Having endured one that was a hideous sleeper when a baby/preschooler and then one that struggles to get to sleep since pre teens and being a poor sleeper myself you have my empathy.

ASD & ADHD is pretty rife in our household.

7pm - 6:30am (but usually wakes up around 6am, alarm is set for 6:30am) so 11 hours

doesn't often go to bed later than 8pm and will still be up before 7am