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What bedtimes do your preteens have?

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LetMeLayAmongTheStars · 23/02/2020 21:17

Just that,
I know the ‘recommended’ guidelines but just wondering what time others go to bed.
My DC age 10 currently gets into bed at 8pm but then has quiet time/reads/doodles etc until about 8.45pm
Finding it a struggle to get them up in the morning some days but an earlier bedtime would put him in line with my younger DC and obviously that can’t happen Hmm

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madnessitellyou · 13/03/2020 21:53

12.5 yo, up to bed at 10. She’s never seemed to need tons of sleep - stopped napping at 18mo. Screens live downstairs at night.

Watchagotcha · 20/04/2020 17:17

12 & 9. Then 12 yr old us usually asleep by 9:30 and up by 6:30 (lark), the 9 yr old is in bed by 9:30 but reads for a while, I have to wake him for school (usually) by 7am. He would sleep on (owl).

Tigresswoods · 20/04/2020 17:20

DS is just 10. Under not my circumstances we send him up to bed about 8:30pm. Right now 9pm. He reads. No idea when until. He's always asleep when we go up any time after 10pm.
It's unusual for him to not be away by 7am.

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 20/04/2020 17:24

9yo goes up somewhere between 7.30 and 9. Lights out between 8.30 and 9, so if she's going to bed at 9 then no reading time.

13yo turns in around 9-9.30 weekdays, 10.30 weekends.

TeacupDrama · 20/04/2020 17:27

my DD is 10 she goes to bed around 9.15 -9.30 asleep by 9.45 occasionally 10 in holidays/weekends she wakes about 7.30 or later which is plenty of time for school leaves house at 8.35, that is 10 hours which is recommended for her age
she is a bit later just now as only needs to be ready for online school at 9am
she normally goes straight to bed lights out rather than reading in bed
I don't know any of her friends that go to bed before 9pm

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