SO, how many hours sleep a night does your 3.5 yr old have?

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Mine seems to only want 10.5

It's MAD and really annoying me that she will wake at 730am and not go to sleep until 9pm at the earliest. She doesn't nap in the day at all, EVER.

So, does this seem right for a 3 and a half year old? Or do I need to get super super tough on her and get her to go down at 730pm?

If she does only need 10.5 hours I am seriously considering waking her at 6am in the mornings so she'll go to sleep at 730pm and give us an evening, but with a bad sleeping 7 month old I DO NOT relish that idea much.

mine is 3.1yrs old and had always had 11 hours sleep. And she is happy during the day, sometimes she have a nap in the afternoon for an hour or otherwise none (since Aug 07 of her own accord). She in bed at 7pm - 7am.

IS your DD happy during the day?

yes shes in bed 7pm (doesnt go asleep till nearly 8) - 7am

my dd1 is 3.2 she goes to bed at 6.30 and wakes between 6 and 6.30, shes always gone to bed between 6 and 7 and had lunchtime sleep till she was 23months then was taking till 8/9pm to get her to sleep so we dropped nap and went for earlier bed time. She is a fairly good sleeper but does have a habit of sneaking in our bed at 3am given half a chance.

dd2 is 9 months and she goes to bed at 6.15 and tends to wake around 6 (well dh disturbs er at 4.45am when he goes to work but she comes in with me and nods off till 6ish)

We have had a really good week this week with both of them actually staying in their own beds and sleeping all night so am expecting a bad night soon.

Personally I like her in bed early as it means I have a bit of time to myself and with dh also if one of us is going out theres no tantrums as they are asleep before we've gone

she is happy in the day yes. she does get q tired around early afternoon, as we all do i guess, but never enough to make her nap. i'm wondering whether she passes her tired time by 8pm and gets a second wind. not sure she is, she just doesn't seem tired.

tonight she was in bed by 7pm. she had a story, then was relaxing when dd2 woke, i went into her and she came in and tried to get in her cot, to press her musical 'thingy'. i got mad, left the baby to cry, went into dd again, anyway, the fact of the matter is - she messed about until 9pm. after i had taken 3 of her toys away - one for each time she called or shouted out, dh had gone in and 'had words', blah blah blah.

you get the picture......

thing is it's not like she's playing up, as when she IS tired - ie, around 9pm she'll happily kiss us goodnight, wave and blow a kiss then turn over and go to sleep. it's the 2 hours before that that she plays us up!!

My 3.5 year old dd has about 11 hours sleep a night, sometime up to 12. She doesn't have naps. She goes to bed at about 7.30 and wakes maybe 6.30/7am.

sorry, just another thing. you're prob saying 'you're answering your own question', but there are the odd times when she will go down at 730/8pm. not often, but sometimes. which makes me think she can do it. although, maybe she doesn't always need it.

I'll shut up, the point is, I want a general poll average sleep times for this age please, in order for me to accept or do something about it!

thanks Fennel.

You have a nice name.....

Can you tell her she can play with something or read quietly to herself until she's sleepy, but she is not allowed to come out of her room or call out unless there's a proper problem?

DS1 (3.6) does that - he had a nap yesterday afternoon, so he wasn't as tired as usual at bedtime (three mornings a week, he's up just before 7 and is often not in bed before 8.30, without a nap usually).

So he played with his engines, telling little stories about them and puffing them up and down the headboard of his bed. He sometimes reads books too - we have two two-brightness lights from Ikea that he switches to "night-time lights" when he goes to sleep, but they're bright enough to read by when they're on their brighter setting.

We do that hunker. she has an ikea night light and tells stories to her 'children' (soft toys), playing schools with them, rearranging etc. She gets 3 chances to call or come out - in case she needs the loo, another drink, etc. She gets 3 glow inthe dark stars for her wall if she doesn't call or come out, 1 less for each time she does. Sometimes works q well, but still doesn't go to sleep before 9 ish!

sorry haven't read all thread

mine seems to want between 10 and 11 hours - 8 to 7.30 on good days, 8.30 to 6.30 on bad days, sometimes less

he seems a very light sleeper in the early mornings and we can't get out of bed unless we want him to wake up too (tho usually he's in with us anyway)

9pm a very late bedtime for this age IMO - like you i feel she surely could do better than that!!!

i shall have to wake her at 730 again tomorrow for school. maybe i should start to wake her at 7. then 630. argh

i am seriously considering the medised