What time does your dc go to bed?

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TBH what time do your dcs go to bed, actually in bed, head on the pillow and light switched off, that sort bed time?

Aged 6,8.30pm. Sometimes later.

Hello OP

My dd is 10 and is usually in bed with lights out anytime from 8.30pm / 10.30 pm, it varies quite a bit.
We don't really have a set time, just when she's tired.

My dd is 4 and a half and it's lights out around 7pm on a school night. She might be allowed a bit of extra reading time at the weekend.

DS1 is 3, in bed about 7pm and asleep at the latest by 7.30pm
DS2 is 10 months falls asleep at about 8.30pm but is still up in the night for milk at about 4am

11 year old boy - in bed between 7.45pm & 8pm story / own reading time till 8.25pm. Lights out 8.30pm.

My dcs go to bed at 9pm. Is it too late? How many hours sleep does your dc get?

7pm for my 7yr old, lights out 7.30pm

7 year old sent to get ready for bed 7:15, lights out hopefully by 7:45. But she often stays awake later, and then is tired the next day...I let her read if she really can't sleep. It is a real problem for her.

11 year old lights out 8:45, and he nearly always falls straight asleep.

Both wake up just before 7am usually.

On school nights:
DS12 - in bed at 9, lights out 9.30
DS9 - in bed 8.30, lights out 9 (although usually asleep before then
DS5 - has stories read to him from 7.30, then left to get to sleep 7.50-8ish, although he often is still finding excuses for being awake until 8.30.
Weekends and school holidays are more flexible

2 and 4, bed at 9pm. No way could we do earlier as rarely home before 6.30pm, have to cook/ eat/ bath/ relax. They wake 8/9am

7.5y.o bed at 7.30 reads till lights out at 8.

Only recently moved from 7.

Up at about 7-7.30. Still seems tired a lot of the time but I know she can't sleep longer.

3 yr old - 7.15
6 - 7:30
8 - 9pm (always been a night owl, though he is in bed by 7:30 just reads)

My 9 yr olds lights out at 8pm on a school night, 9pm in the holidays. One gets up at 6.30, the other gets up at a more civilised 7.30 -they just need different amounts of sleep despite being twins.

12 yrold is 9 pm on school night, 10 pm holidays.

The NHS website will tell you the required amount of sleep a child needs, but obviously it depends on the individual too. It says a 6 yr old needs 10.25 hours a night-but if you think your child needs a little more or less I'm sure you know them best.

DD(8) and DS(11) go to bed at 9:00. DS has to get up at 6:30 and DD gets up at 8:00. Generally DS bounces out of bed but I have to drag DD out despite her getting an extra 1.5 hours sleep!

My 4 and 6 year olds are in bed at 7 but are allowed to look at books as long as they wish. The 4 year old falls asleep fairly quickly and the 6 year old is rarely up past 7:30 or 7:45. They are both up at 6:30.

7yr old - 8pm school nights, 9pm non-school nights
10yr old - 8.30pm school nights, 9.30pm non-school nights

Ds is nearly 8 and is usually in bed about 7.30/7.40 and lights out is 8.

He wakes up at about 6.30

Dd aged 7 - 9.00, up at 8.
Ds aged 11 - 10.30 up at 8.

So both getting their quota. Every day I am grateful that we live exactly five minutes walk from school so no early starts.

DD1 is 12 and is usually in bed by 8.30 on a school night (except scouts which is later). At the weekends/holidays it's more like 10pm. DD2 is 10 and goes to bed later than DD1 in the week - usually 9pm. DD1 is finding secondary school v tireing.

I'm feeling a bit sad that we are losing our evenings...

Oops forgot to say that they are both up at 7am.

DS is 10 - school nights bedtime starts 8.30, we don't have a specific lights out time but around 9.15 - 9.30.

Non school nights bedtime starts 9pm.

Dcs 3 & 6. Upstairs at about 6pm aiming for lights off just before 7.

DO is 6yo. She's in bed for 7:30pm on a school night and around 8:30pm on a weekend. She usually wakes between 6 am and 6:30am of her own accord. It is pointless setting her bed time much later as she has to be up by 7am to get on the school bus just before 8am.

DDs are 11 and 13 - both go up at 7.30, brush teeth, I read to them (yes, tha probably makes us weird) and then they read by themselves, lights out at 8.30. They are up well before 7 on a school day though.

Weekends and holidays it's later and more flexible.

ds6 in bed and lights out by 7. Up at 7am.
dd9 in bed for 7 reads till 8. Probably asleep by 8.30. Up at 8am.