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

[dilemma456]

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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.