Typical schedule for 1-year old

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I'll be going back to work in April, and my (by then) 1-year old will be going to a childminder.

She currently has her dinner at just before 5pm, and has a bath and goes to bed at 6pm. She wakes up around 6/6.30am most days.

This current routine won't really work when I go back to work. I think I'll have to push bedtime to later, plus I'll want to, to spend some time with her before bed.

May I ask what you do with your 1-year olds? What's a sensible bedtime?

Follow-up: do you eat dinner with your little ones, or give them something cooked earlier, and eat your own dinner after they go to bed?

Is the problem that you'll be home later or you need to get up earlier?

I'll not get home until 6pm, so that's the main issue.

Her bedtime is really pretty early based on my kids and friends kids. I have one brilliant sleeper and one shit one (see my thread on that if you want!) so bear that in mind, but both of mine are in bed for 7-7:30 and we are the earliest out of my friends.

I work three days a week and on those days I pick the boys (1 and 3) up from nursery at 6 and do their dinner, then quick bath/story etc and try to get them down for 7:30. We have our own dinner after. On non-work days we eat together but they are still in bed for 7:30 having had dinner at about 5:30pm.

Nursery is knackering for kids and ours feed them loads so they just have a simple tea like soup or sandwiches/pizza on nursery days.

Thank you - perhaps I'll start phasing her bedtime to later soon.

Push the bedtime till 7pm.
Childminder gives dinner so you don't need to do that (baby won't last waiting for dinner till after 6pm!)
You don't need to bath every day.

What's the childminder's routine?

I'm a childminder and don't provide dinner.

But if the op doesn't get home till 6pm then makes dinner thays way too late for a 1 year old.

If the childminder doesn't do dinner then she'll have to, so it will depend on what the cm offers.

The childminder provides snacks but no dinner. My husband will be picking her up and by the sound of things will be giving her dinner too.

I know we don't have to bathe her every night but she loves and it's part of her bedtime routine. We'll push the routine back, to start around 6.45/7pm perhaps, and in bed by 7.30pm latest.

My 1 year old's routine is:
Up 6.30/7
Lunch at 12
Nap 12.45-2.30 (has to be up then for school run)
Snack at 3.30
Dinner at 6
Bath 6.30
Bed about 7.15