What time does your child go to sleep on a school night?

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My son is 9 and apparently the only one in his class who goes to sleep before 10pm on a school night. On weekends 'everybody else' stays up until midnight.

In an ideal world I would like to see him in bed by 8pm on a school night. He takes ages to drop off to sleep (I mean when you tell him he can read for half an hour in bed and forget to go up to turn off his light he's still reading when you go upstairs to go to the loo at 10pm .)Most nights its usually lights off by 8.30pm.

My 6 year old is in bed by 8pm on a good night. Quite often it's 8.15-8.30 as I find it hard juggling the two bed times and he keeps getting out of bed and I basically need to get more organised. Ideally I would like to see him in bed by 7.30.

Could we have a school night bedtime roll call?

Just put your child's age and bedtime.

I want to show my 9 year old this thread so he can believe me that the ones who say they go to bed at 10pm are probably not telling the truth........

dd1 year 9 age 13 bedtime is 9-930. up at 6 30 am

dd2 year 7 age 11 bedtime 9-9..30 (she needs very little sleep always have) up at 6 am

ds year 5 age 9 bedtime is currently 8 but will become 8 .30 by next weekend (when he has his own bedroom) always awake by 6.30 am on his won

dd3 year 3 age almost 8 (so 7) currently 8 and will remain so when she gets her own room with a hope that actually will get her to sleep she needs it badly) has to be kicked out of bed by 7 30. we leave the house (for primary) at 8 30.

oh forgot weekends dd1 and 2 Friday and Saturdays gets to go when they wish (that can be midnight at times)

ds and dd3 10 pm the latest

I think its more about amount of sleep depends when you have to be up

can't say anthing about 9 or 10 year olds but i do know that "everyone else" is offically at least 43 now and wishes she could sleep longer she keeps waking at 6.30am though DD and Dh do not wake till 8am :(

When i was young "everyone else" had drainpipe jeans etc and again stayed up at least 1 h-2 hours more than me also had loads more pocket money and did less chores

"everyone else " is a very lucky person cos she can pass exams without revising is always good at netball and always supports winning team has no spots ever and if she did have a spot it would be on monday not on friday night when ordinary mortals get spots she has marvellous understanding parents who give her everything she wants when she wants it , her parents do not find it a fag to pick her up at random times especially when these times are different to what was agreed earlier or to park two streets away as they understand they are embarrassing and never get out of car and they are completely relaxed about her not answering texts as they know she has better things to do

DSS - 13 Yr 9 at school, in Bed 9 - 9:15, usually asleep between 9:30 and 10.
Weekends, free for all, usually 11pm - midnightish, however thats in bed and playing on Xbox/ watching film!

Hi Lonnie, pleased to see your DS1 is the same as my DSS, as he always complains that everyone is always up later than him!

All 5 of mine have been in bed at 9 or 9:30, right from the start. Those still at home are now 16, 13 and 10. The 16yo often finishes homework until much later than 9:30. They are up at 7 but sleep in a little on weekends when they're not doing something.

Weekend bedtimes are a little later (10ish) on weekends when they are with me, but when they go to exH's they regularly stay up much later.

I never even tried establishing different bedtimes for everyone because I didn't want to spend all night every night putting people to bed and arguing with younger DCs about so and so going later and why couldn't they. They are always welcome to go to bed earlier than 9ish if they wish.

'Everyone Else' is an imaginary friend btw, or maybe she is Everybody Elsie, charming old ladyish name, very hep.

My 2 DDs - 9 and 10 - both go up around 8pm, lights out at 9 - though at the weekend can be later. They both get up full of beans at around 7.30, no alarm needed.

DS2 - 3yrs - in bed at 7pm, asleep in minutes

DS1 - 6 yrs - in bed at 7:15pm - takes longer to naturally settle himself (always has) but normally asleep quite quickly

DD - nearly 12 yrs - in bed by 8pm, possibly with a little reading time (15 minutes max - if allowed she would read for hours!). This might seem quite early for her age, but a) she needs her sleep and is vile without it, b) she has just started secondary school and is pretty knackered with all the changes, physical and emotional, and c) she is now having to get up at 6:30am, which is earlier than her natural/primary school waking time.

Weekends are a bit later/more relaxed, but the boys wake at 6:30ish regardless of when they go to bed. DD often stays up to watch a film or X-factor or some such...

DS1 8 - Bed by 8, lights out 8.30.
DS2 6 - Bed by 7.30, story and lights out.

DD has just turned 7. She is settled down between 7 and 8pm (nearer 8) during the week and 8-9pm at weekends.

She will not being going any later than that at any point in the future unless she learns to occupy herself a bit better and starts getting up at a reasonable hour in the morning rather than any time from 5.30am onwards.

I swear she has Duracell bunny genes in there somewhere.

DS1 (8.6) lights out 8pm (reads with a torch for a bit sometimes I think), maybe 8.30 on Fri/Sat and after cubs one school night a week.

DS2 (nearly 7) same time but without the late night after cubs.

Both up by 7 just about every day.

My 9 year old has lights out at 8:00 am I mean?

my 7 year old lights out by 7:30

those that are still at home
dd 10 8.00 pm can read as long as she likes, is always asleep by 8.30
dd 12 8.00 pm can read as long as she likes, is normaly asleep by about 10
dd 14 9.00 pm can read as long as she likes, normaly asleep by about 9.30
ds 18 (at college) if hes home by then in his room at 9.30 reading or doing homework till i dont know when
ds 20 (job less) in his room at 9.30 if he is in, reading untill i dont know when
they all get up at 6.55am

ds 19 away at uni probably never sleeps, he didnt seem to at home. was always still reading when i went to sleep, and was almost always up showered and dressed when i got up at 6.50.

Dd1 (7) in bed by 8-8.30, usually awake until 8.30 - 9pm, wakes up at just before 7. but she's never needed much sleep.

Dd2 (5) in bed by 8, asleep by 8.30, wakes just before 7.30.

Sorry - just read SCHOOL night in OP title... in that case it's usually:

Dd1: by 8.30
Dd2: by 8-8.30

5- in bed for 7/7.30pm, asleep for 8/8.30pm.

dd1 6 years goes to bed at 7pm asleep 7.05pm!
ds nearly 4 goes to bed at 7pm asleep by 7.15 (naps for 40 mins in day)
dd2 nearly 3 goes to bed at 7pm asleep by 7.15 (naps 1.5 hours a day)

All wake between 6.45 (school days) and 7.30 (weekend)

However i go to bed between 9 and 9.30. so dreading when they want/ need later bedtimes as i only about 2 hours to eat tea/ see dh/ watch my programmes etc.

We have that problem already, with just the one TV in the house and DD (15) liking to watch programmes which we hate until 10 or 10.30. DH wants to go to bed by the time her programmes are over. We do record things for her to watch later, but accept that there are certain "watercooler" TV things which she will need to have seen in time to discuss them with friends the next day. (eg X Factor and the like, urggghhhh.......really, they should only be allowed to put this sort of stuff on Saturday and Friday nights, b* commercial TV)

We don't want to go down the "2 TVs in the house" route, so we record our programmes and watch them earlier in the evening. Backwards bedtimes! - DH sometimes go earlier than DD!

DS who is 11 sometimes watches till 9 or 9.30, ready for bed in his pyjamas. But he is no early sleeper and often reads until about 10 if we send him to bed. Being a person who only has about 6 hours sleep a night, I don't feel it's worth arguing....I can remember having to go to bed at 9 as a child, and waking up at 4 - 5am, for years. I got a lot of reading done.

no bed time rules. As and when they like.

My DS is 11 and is never in bed before 9.30pm on a school night. He always reads and I insist on lights out by 10.15pm at the latest - unless he pushes it with he old "just until the end of this chapter" routine and I may say OK to an extension until 10.30pm. He gets up at about 7.00am.

At weekends he more or less goes as and when he likes unless he has football and then I insist on the same time as a school night but if he's got nothing to get up for the next day I usually say by by midnight enough is enough - he still has to read for a bit when he gets into bed though, it's a ritual.

aloiseb
that is what babysitters are for
I WILL NOT have those "talent" "reality" shows on - LOATHE them with a willing
and the only Soap in the house was the Archers till Nigel F e l l l l l l l l l l l l l
BUT
when the babysitter comes every couple of weeks (and DH and I go out for a deux dinner)
they watch wall to wall trash

DS age 7 and a half, bed by 7.30, lights out by 8

DD (4) bed by 7:30, not allowed to get up before 6:30, both times half an hour later at the weekends. Still using groclock as her time telling can be a bit hit-and-miss. She has never read that bit of the books that say how much sleep they are supposed to need. She's still singing quietly to herself now.

oh yeah everyone else watches corrie and eastenders as well!!

DS1 - age 9 goes to bed at 8pm on school nights and is always asleep by 9pm.

DS2 - age 6 goes to bed at 8pm on a school night and is rarely asleep by 9pm! I usually go up again at that time and force him to turn his light off, stop playing with his lego....