How old is / are your DC and what time are they in bed?

[dilemma456]

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[likessleep]

kwt - on the days i do work (2 days a week), dh picks up ds at 6, home by quarter past.

ds has his milk, bath, books bed, 45 minutes in all (he sometimes has his milk in the bath). we don't see much of him on those days admittedly, but he is desperate for sleep before he even gets in through the front door, after a day at the cm! he is so shattered by then, that if we are slower on those days, he goes into meltdown with overtiredness.

[zippy539]

DD (5) - in bed by 7.30
DS (7) - in bedroom by 7.30 - allowed to potter about, draw etc 'til about 8.15 then into bed.

[likessleep]

19 mth old ds in bed by 7.
we leave him to go to sleep by himself (i sometimes hear him kiss his teddy as i leave the room and then 'chat' with teddy for a while).
i do occasionally stay and sit with him if he is ultra tired though, he sometimes needs a bit of comfort.
my favourite time of day

[notevenamousie]

2.6 year old in bed by 7, usually asleep by half past. And awake around 6, utterly regardless of bedtime, anything between 5 and 8:30 she is up at 6, so this is the best that I can live with.

[DidEinsteinsMum]

4yo asleep anywhere between 8pm and 1am. it depends on the day and we always do bedtime routine at the same time. start at 6.30pm (he spends an 1hr in bath to calm down), lights out at 8pm (unless he is flying round the ceiling when it is first necessary to catch him)

Incidently he gets up for the day anywhere between 3am and 9am and this has no corrolation to when he went to sleep. He went to bed the other night around 2am and got up for the day at 6am. He was fine I was a zombie.

Do whats right for you dc - everyone is different!

[kwt]

Just wondering - for all of you who are able to put your kids to bed at 6.30 or 7, how do you do it? Do you work full time? I'm honestly wondering, as on a good day I would get home at 5.30 - 6pm (pick DD up from nursery), by the time you put a meal together, spend some time together, bath story etc.. I would never be able to! She's 1, and often is asleep by about 8.15 but I would struggle to make it any earlier.. maybe I'm just really slow! But any tips would be helpful. She does, however, wake at 6am ready for the day And naps 45min-1hr twice a day.

[Orissiah]

12 month old DD goes to bed 7pm (doesn't last much longer than this) and wakes up around 6-6.30am (Spring/Summer) and 6.30-7.30am (Autumn/Winter). If she goes to bed later than 7pm, she tends to wake up earlier.

[elvislives]

DD is 2.3 and goes to bed when I do

She rarely drops off before 11pm no matter what I do. If we go to bed near 11pm she snuggles in and is out like a light. Or I can try her earlier and waste the entire evening lying in a dark room. (only for her to muck about until 11pm )

She gets up at 7.30 am (at the weekends..) and is happy and jolly, so she is obviously getting the sleep she needs. I assume that if she went off earlier she'd be up at 5 ish.

My other children all went to bed at 7/ 7.30 at her age. 2 of them needed loads of sleep and one used to get up at silly o clock. Children are all different.

[womma]

DD is 9 mths, goes to bed at around 7.30, wakes up at 5ish...

Will only get a reasonable amount of daytime sleep if we stay at home all day too.

[pigsinmud]

3 & 5 year old dds - between 7 and 8

9 year old ds - about 9

11 year old ds - about 9:30

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

DD aged 3 anytime between 8 and 9, this has stopped her waking early or in the middle of the night.

DS age 1 goes to bed at 7.30 which seems to have stretched him to 6.30 mornings.

[Jaquelinehyde]

DD1 just turned 4 goes between 7 - 7.30

DS 3 and a half goes between 7 - 7.30

DD2 turning 2 next week goes between 6.30 - 7

All three are put to bed and get themselves off to sleep.

[ilovesprouts]

ds 2.6 goes to bed at 9pm but is still awake wen we go to bed as dh puts dvd on for him

[AnarchyAunt]

DD (6) in bed for 6.30 on weeknights, sleeps til around 7.

Weekends she goes whenever she seems to need it - as she has got older she's started to sleep later to compensate.

She's always had an early bedtime, as a single mum I find I really need the evenings to myself. Even though we are away visiting friends/travelling a lot, there's always a corner or comfy chair to snuggle her up in with her special blanket.

[Skimty]

DD (8mo) and DS (2.8) in bed and asleep between 7.15-7.45. Both sleep around eleven hours (with usually one or two wake ups each in between!)

I was convinced that all children needed a six o'clock bedtime and a daytime nap until they were three etc. until I go given two children who really don't need as much sleep as that. DS hasn't napped for about a year and DD has between 1 hour and 1 and half hour nap during the day. (Spread over two naps)

Trying to extend their naps/sleep time has proven pointless...ho hum

[lizziemun]

ds 12wks between 6 - 6.30pm
dd2 22mths 6 - 6.30pm after ITNG
dd1 5.5yrs 6 - 7pm. Her teacher told the class they had to be in bed 6.30pm so they were well rested for school.

[MarthaFarquhar]

DD is 2.2 and sleeps 7.30pm - 6.30am. I would rather 8.30pm - 7.30am but she's having none of it. I really do think most DC find the pattern that suits them best.

[EyeballsandherSunburntNorks]

DD 17 months won't go to bed before 9pm and sometimes later. Wakes again at 1am for a couple of hours then again at 6.30ish

They never told me it would be like this

[ilovespinach]

ds1 3.2 and ds2 17 months 7. They run around like crazy during the day and are shattered at 7. The downside is they get up between 6/7 am.

[MagNacarta]

dd1 - almost 10 yrs - 8.30pm
dd2 - 7 - 8pm
ds - 6 - 7.30pm

Weekends however is a bit of a freeforall - often as late as 10pm.

[smallchange]

Ds (2.7) is in bed around 8.30pm as on the days I work it would be difficult and no fun at all to get him fed bathed and in bed any earlier. It keeps him to a routine for him to have the same bedtime every night. He wakes up 7.30-8 and luckily this is enough time (just about) for us to get ready to go out in the mornings.

I think he?s inherited my sleep habits though. We can often hear him chatting away to himself well past 9pm and my mum says I was exactly the same, but she put me to bed at 6pm so I was spending the whole evening awake lying in my cot ? perfectly happily apparently though.

[Biglips]

my 4.8 yrs old goes to bed @ 6.30pm...she doesnt get to sleep till 7-8pm and wakes up @ 6.30 - 7am. my 8 months old is usually in bed by 9pm and wakes up @ 7am.

[PinkTulips]

4 and almost 3; techinically 7.30 but usualy closer to 8/8.30 and they won't go to sleep before 9 or 10 most nights when it's bright

the baby stays downstairs with us, not going to bother trying to get him into an evening routine til closer to a year old as ime it's a waste of time and soul destroying spending half my evening up in the room trying to settle a fractious baby

[posieparker]

dcs 6 & 7, in bed by 7pm lights out at 7.30
dc 2.75 bed and lights out at 6.30-45
dc 7mths 6.15-25 fed and bed.

[pagwatch]

Average night is
DS1 nearly 16 - 10.00ish
DS2 12yrs - 9.00
DD 6 yrs - 7.00