come tell me what time your 10yr olds go to bed at on a school night please

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hi ds is 10yrs he will be 11yrs at the end of January & gets up at 6am-6.30am every morning even at the weekends therefore i send him to bed at 8.30pm on school days & 9pm ish on weekends , dh thinks that's too early for his age , so what time do you think this age group should stay up until . tia x

dd is up at 6:50. Lights off 8:30pm (usually a bit later nowadays) in the week and 9pm at weekends. Shes finding it quite hard to get up at the moment, so I think it may be a little late for her.

When DD was 10 it was 8.00- 8.30 during the week and 9.00-9.30 at weekends.

DD2 is just 10 and doesn't seem to need a huge amount of sleep.

Goes to bed at 9 but often not asleep til 10 or later. Up at 7.30.

DD1 is 12 and needs more sleep but doesn't always get it - lights out at 9 but ditto doesn't always sleep until closer to 10 but has to be up at 6.30.

11 year old dd goes at 8 and then lights out after story at 8.20. She doesn't usually fall asleep immediately, gets up for a pee at 9 but is still sound asleep when I wake her at 7.45am.

so almost the same bedtimes as my ds , which i think is right for their age , i let ds watch his tv in bed on Friday night as there was a once off special pre-xmas program on until 11.30pm , but he was in a dreadful mood all day Saturday , never again .

Dd goes up at 7:30 and reads for half an hour or so..

DD is nearly 11- bedtime between 9-9.30 on a school night. We let her stay up late on a weekend...but she does sleep in at the weekend. Gets up for school fine during the week.

8:30pm, usually up by 6:30 (DS1 is 11 in Feb)

About 8.30 but she reads a bit sometimes

8.00pm in the week, 8.30 at weekends. Up at 7 most days.

lots of early risers it seems , roll on the lazy teenage years , must show dh & ds this thread , it might make ds feel less hard done by .

I'm afraid that I'm not sure the teenage years will help. My 10yr old has always gone to bed early and woken up early (5.30 is not unusual). My 12yr old has always wanted to stay up late and get up late. I think it's down to bodyclock not just age. So don't go hoping they'll be lazing around till midday come 13

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dd1 is 11 and goes to bed at 8.30pm and up at 7am in the week but on weekends she does her own thing and thats fine with me as long as she doesn't wake any of us up

oh ormirian - i can always live in hope
ds sometimes gets up earlier than 6am but i usually send him back to bed , i hate the thoughts of him going downstairs in the cold at that hour in the morning , it would never dawn on him to switch the heating on for himself , dd (3) is the lazy one in the family , takes after dh

I don't want DSs to stop getting up early - they look after their early rising sister, giving me some more time in bed

oh yes i must admit on Saturday morning i sent dd down to her brother to play the PlayStation & had a very rare lie in with dh . but i ran down to put the heat on for them so I'm not totally heartless

op- I think that sounds about right.
Ds also 10 goes then, but probably doesn't go sleep till 9ish on a school night.
Quite frankly, I want them upstairs by 8-8.30 as I want some evening time myself!

same as tegan

8 or 8.30 depending on what is on tv (and how good he's been ), but if he goes at 8.30 then light is straight out. can read til 8.30 if goes earlier.

gets up at 7.

tbh he is a nightmare if he doesn't get enough sleep - he desperately wants to stay up later but is awful, totally awful, even if his light stays on an extra half hour.

v reassuring to read this thread and now i am not the meanest mummy in the world!

thanks everyone , looks like we all have the same bedtimes for our 10yr olds
dh grew up in a household where the kids were pretty much left to do what they like when they like , go to bed when they felt like it etc , I'd go mad if i didn't have an hour or so to myself in the evening .