What time are your rexeption dc going to bed?

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There just doesn't seem to be anytime when she gets home from school. I don't know where it goes and she is currently going to bed at 7.
We get home at 3.30ish.
Snack.
Look at reading book from school. Chat about her day.
Telly while I do dinner (she is exhausted)
Dinner at 5.30ish (for dc)
Play till bath at 6.
Bath and book takes us to 7.

I know dd1 wants more time to play after dinner but I'm not sure if she should really go to bed any later.

What time do your dc go to bed?

Mine are in yrs 1,2&3: 7.30 bed for youngest (he is always up first, doesn't need any more sleep) other 2 share a room and are in bed at 8ish then have about 30 mins stories. But, at the risk of being jumped on as a Very Bad Mother, you could always free up some time by not bathing every night. Mine are bathed twice a week. There - I've said it !

Both dc (reception and year 2) are in bed by 7pm. Ds2 will occasionally sleep in a bit later if he's tired, usually both wake at about 7am

Op - would you have time to do reading in the morning?

Dinner at 5, upstairs for bath 6.30. In bed by 7. Takes him ages to settle, asleep by 8, but it has been 7.30 a couple of times.

ssssh mine are bathed 3 times tops, more if they are really filthy.

My dd started school last year and it actually made her worse going to bed!! It was as if she had all these new experiences/knowledge whizzing round her head and she resisted sleep. It settled down quickly.
My sister puts her dd to bed quite often at 6pm - I am quite jealous - but she does get up at 6am or before every single day!!!!

Right, what about parents who work outside the home?

DD has just started preschool and is shattered by the end of the day. I dont get home until 6 at the earliest and the idea of havng to fit in dinner, reading, bath and bedtime (and eventually homework too) by 7/7.30 all just seems like a race against the clock and manic over-tiredness.

I work outside the home but have just been able to change my hours to work around school times now that both of our dc are in full time school.

Prior to this we used a child I der and our dc would have tea with her which meant that the time that we had together at home was less pressurised.

Is that an option for you Kindling ?

Ds is in yr 1 but same routine

Home around 3.45 /4
Snack
Play /chat
Tea at 5/5.15
Telly/play /chat until 6.30
Bath until 7
Story in bed
Asleep by 7.30

Sometimes he looks shattered or suddenly gets tearful and cross and so bath & bed are brought forward, he's then usually asleep by 7!

We don't get home till 6 so it is a military operation in our house of an evening!! Have ds1 in Y2 & ds2 in reception. Both are in bed asleep no later than 8pm (DS2 about half hour earlier than brother usually but sometimes together). DS2 is still tired towards the end of the day so we try and get him to bed by 7 but don't think we could do it any earlier! DS2 gets up no later than 6 regardless of bed time.

I'm finding it hard as I don't get home with the kids until 6, trying ti fit in homework, tea, sonetimes football at 6.45, then more homework and DS's second tea. Then trying to get them into bed before 8. Impossible.

kindling will your DD eat at school? Option is to have hot school meal, then after school club with a snack, so you can do reading bath bedtime etc.

Five definitely yes to hot school meals. The after school clubs near us don't offer much in the way of food other than toast, which i find really surprising. Surely most kids are ravenous by 4 o' clock!

Interesting reading.

DD is currently only hal days so finishing at 12. She's pretty tired now after lunch and often asks for a nap so im dreading what she will be like when she's there till 3pm!

We usually eat at 6.30 when DH gets in from work then its up for bath, story and bed.
I just know shes going to be so ratty and tired but im reluctant to bring dinner forward as DH wont get to see her.

DS3 is now in Y1 but all last year he went to bed at 6.30 - he has always needed his sleep and any later and he was really grumpy in the mornings

DS started reception full time this week. He isn't as exhausted as I'd anticipated him to be, but I know exactly what you're saying about time vanishing once you get home from school.

Rather than collect him in the car, Ive chosen to walk to school to pick him up and we walk home. i think this encourages him to talk about his day.

So - we get home at 3:45 or so. He has a snack and plays with his toys.

Dinner at 5. CBeebies from 5 until 6 - he is knackered and just slumps in front of the TV.

Bath at 6.

Into bedroom at 6:30 for faffing, story books and reading his school book.

I leave him at 7. He sings a bit and goes to sleep. He is up at 6 the next morning.

I think I will try giving him dinner earlier and a snack later.

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Kindling I used to get home at 6 too with DD when she was at her childminders and then nursery all day and she ate her dinner there. I didn't bath her each night so we'd get home at 6, play/cuddle/read and into bed at 7. If it was a bath night then I'd start running it as soon as we were in the door and by 6.30 she was bathed and ready for bedtime routine.

Wow , my little one is still going strong and its 20.48, since being at school he just wants to stay up playing ,no sign of tiredness yet.
Think i may have to put back his time by 15 mins every night til it becomes a child free zone after 7pm.
Hes quite happy in the mornings too, never griseley he gets up at 730 am , its me that needs an earlier bedtime :)