What time does your 10 y.o. go to bed on a school night?

[MaggieW]

Just that really, interested to know what time other 10 y.o.s are going to bed. TIA.

Sorry

DD gets up at 6.50 am

DD is 9y9m.
She is a bit of a night owl naturally and would chose to go to sleep late and wake late given a chance.

As it is, on a school night she goes to bed around 8:30pm and reads for half an hour, lights off at 9ish. If she can't sleep she can read a little longer at times. She has to be up about 7:15am for school.

Weekends and holidays varies greatly!

Oh, and on drama night when she isn't home til 8pm, it is more like 9 when she goes up.

smee - it varies for DD on a school night but our normal Ish) routine is:

Monday - home at 5:30 after school LAMDA class; homework and singing/drama practise; dinner when DH is home; chat and TV, then bed to read
Tuesday - home at 4ish, homework and tea; drama club and home around 8ish; TV and chat; bed a bit later
Wednesday - home at 5:30 after drama; homework and singing/drama practise; dinner when DH is home; chat and TV, then bed to read
Thursday - from school to climbing with a snack; home about 7ish after climbing; dinner; only homework is has to be in; singing/drama practise if no climbing or no h/work; TV and chat; bed to read
Friday - home with two best friends at 4ish, lots of noisy play; dinner sometime; late night as bed when friends and parents have left - after we have eaten and had a drink or two :)

I got home late tonight from work so mine ended up staying up a bit later. I try and give them some time in the evening as dedicated chat time with me as no one in this house has meaningful conversations in the morning .

Ds (10) does sport, ps3, charging about like a lunatic in the evening
Dd (11) homework, Facebook, tv. Her walk to school is 30 mins so she's often quite knackered when she gets home, especially when it's cold or wet.

12 yr old - 9 pm ish
10 & 9 yr olds - 8 pm

The younger two read for half a hour, the 12 year old has a shower and reads until she sleeps.

Apparently I'm sooooo mean and everyone else goes to bed much later - I don't care, I'm their mother and I think it's right for them.

Should have also said dd is a voracious reader and we pretty much have to drag her out a book to join any real life activity like eating so that's what she's normally doing

My two are 12 and 11 and have been going to bed at 9, lights off at 9.30 for a couple of years. dh does occasionally say maybe they should have a later bedtime but I think they need their sleep (they get up at 7.30). They do pop in and out for drinks, peeing etc for a while some nights but have always been fairly good at staying put (although it did take a bit of yelling when they were small!). dd gets migraines when she is over tired so we are quite fierce about bedtimes.

smee, I'm guessing your ds is relatively young? I've found as dd gets older the problem is not so much what to do after school, as fitting it all in!

It doesn't help that dd would quite cheerfully sign up for every out of school activity going, but even limiting it to two clubs per week she seems to be pretty busy most of the time, with homework, activities, & general 'stuff' especially when the evenings are lighter and she can play out after school with friends more.

Smee - like you, I slightly struggle with whether DD1 (just 9) is allowed to watch TV later in the evening. We've now come to the compromise that if she's done all her homework and music practice, she can watch between 8.00 and 8.30, but then has to go up to bed and read for half an hour before lights out. I also need to know what she's watching as not everything on at that time is suitable for a 9yo.

9-9.15 reads for a bit, lights out 9.30. She's a good sleeper, wakes up at 8. She's quite sedentary in that she's not as worn out at the end if the day as my son.

Oh yes & no tv or laptop after 8.30 approx, we then get stuff ready for next day, brush teeth, tidy up etc.

About 10pm here. I thought we were much later than everyone else, but it appears not.

8.30 get ready, bed by 9 except scout night which doesn't finish until 9.15, so that's a later one.

I do think dh and I need a bit of time to relax during the evenings minus dc milling about; although that is getting harder to achieve these days with a 13 yr old too.

I don't think many things on tv are suitable for 10 or even 13 yr olds after 9pm.

They may be old enough to stay up later, but unless we all watch endless Come Dine With Me, I struggle to find something that's ok for them.

my 9yr old goes to bed from 7:30-8pm and by 12yr old from 8:30, sometimes a bit later, they can read, listen to music etc or some nights watch a bit of tv, as long as they have checked with me that its something i say is suitable for them to watch. bizarrely they are both a fan of foody type programmes or sometimes top gear, but its always lights out by 9pm. on school nights that is, wkends/holidays the routine can go to pot a bit depending on what we are doing.

school days they have to be up by 7am, during the xmas holiday they had started sleeping in which was great, but i had to wake them up the first few days of this term.

I totally agree BendyBob about adult time and unsuitable stuff on TV. Sadly some of the channels repeat post watershed programmes (like desperate scousewives and TOWIE) at 6.30 / 7pm on other channels

My DC are sadly addicted to any foodie programmes, and grumped massively about GBBO being on after bedtime to the extent that they all got recorded for later viewing - my DM can't quite get used to the ponciness of the pretend food she gets served by my 5yo .

wrt to bedtime, though - if they do get to stay up late (weekend or holidays) we tend to watch a film together (from sky anytime or DVD) rather than hunt through the schedules for something appropriate. I have no intention of either of them having TVs in their rooms until they are in their late teens.

DD1 is currently glued to "Cupcake wars" on crappy food network. It is dire, but I'm not complaining about the tasty cupcakes she has produced off the back of it!

Oh, we love watching foodie things together too - especially "Come dine with me"
dd even managed to do one of her own series with a couple of friends at half-term - each of them planning and hosting their own evening. Amazingly (for us) it was all a great success !
Can't wait for the new Masterchef series to start - gather from today's "Loose Women" that it starts tonight ! Excellent !

Oh, and while I'm going off on various tangents the thing I don't like about unsuitable TV is the trailers for post 9pm stuff shown much earlier and completely without warning in the middle of or just after perfectly reasonable family viewing. It makes me mad
In fact I might just start my first ? AIBU on that subject !

Yes dd adores all the foodie programmes too. Perhaps the producers are missing a trick consider how many of our dds like watching with us! She loves masterchef and come dine with me.

Ds still barely watches real tv other than football and those 8pm kick offs don't finish till about 10 and champions league games 945.

Tbh I would FAR rather mine were watching football and foodie programmes than that dire Disney shite they like (suite life, wizards etc etc)

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