how many hours does your 3 year old sleep in 24 hours?

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Just post your answer. I'm getting worried my DS1 is not getting enough sleep and so want to know if 12 hours is the norm or some book-derived figure. He sleeps from maybe 7.45 p.m. till 6 - 6.30 a.m. I suspect his report card would read "could do better". And he was a textbook 12 hour baby until the birth of DS2 and the room sharing began. So any extra tips you may have regarding improving sleep with that in mind would be appreciated.
Also, he insists on sleeping with the door open now and the light on, and screams in the night if we've closed the door.
Anyone? Anyone?

Identical to yours - 7.45pm to 6-6.30am He is 3.8 now and has slept a similar amount for ages now. He doesn't seem too tired during the day but is tired at night which is how it should be I guess. He will occasionally have a nap if we are out in the car but never naps at nursery or at home.

12 hours here, 7 til 7.

i guess you've tried things like night lights or fairy lights or those bunny clocks?

7.30 to 7.30ish, sometimes a bit earlier. She often tries to sneak a nap in the afternoon, I let her have 30 minutes if she succeeds in falling asleep.

Mine is 3.5 and sleeps 8pm to 6am, so similar to yours. He was always a terrible sleeper as a baby, did not sleep through until he was about 2.5 and often wakes up now and comes into my bed. Doesn't like the door shut either, has to have radio 3 on as he drops off

Hey ho.

How is he on the sleep he gets? Is he happy enough, or does he moan and look tired? If the former, like mine, then that is just how he is. Look forward to him being a teenager and not getting up til lunchtime. If the latter, try to get him to bed earlier for a while, even if he doesn't go to sleep straight away. And give him as much fresh air and exercise as you can. Mine will only have a really good night if I have treated him like a Labrador and run round outside half the day.

Think I might get a bunny clock. And was thinking of just being firm and getting a night light and saying "no,the door is closed now and you can see everything because you have this great new night light". We would need to shift furniture though, but that's a minor consideration really. I was thinking along those lines anyway.
I think I have to bring his bedtime forward too.
I feel like he needs more sleep than he's getting, you see.
He currently waits until the end of the Infernal Peppa Pigathon on Nicklodeon, so might try some sly sky plus tricks there too.

loved your answer lankyalto, really made me laugh! I totally feel your labrador comment!
He's a bit grey lookin and grumpy, but I've just dropped his day sleep in the hope he'd sleep better at night.
He goes down a bit earlier(before it was sometimes nearer half eight), but doesn't sleep any more soundly throught the night really.

Mine sleeps about 10.5 - 11 hrs a night.

he slept really well as a baby and toddler and napped well.

His need for sleep has diminshed in the last 6 nths or so - guess he is getting older!

7.45 - 6/6.30 sounds pretty reasonable if his behavior/tiredness levels are fine int he daytime.

Oh! And ds took to night light and door open at around 3 after 3 years of darkness adn closed doors! Seems fair enough request to me.

7.15 (ish) to bout 6.30-45. So about 11 and a half. He is also definitely woken up earlier by DD (18mth). However, he has always needed less than average.

Last year he went through a terrible sleeping stage and the doctor said he was extremely sleep deprived but that was very obvious from behaviour for example he would fall asleep eating. After that we were very strict with bedtimes etc.

oh and he hasn't napped since around 2 yrs.

Seems full of energy anyway.

7 till 7 or 6.30pm till 7.30 after a tired chicky day at pre school.

She sleeps about 11 hours at night, occasionally 12, no other naps. Ds (5) will do 12.

She's just got the stage of being frightened of the dark but am not keen on having a bright light on as have read in Yehudi Gordon's book it's not good for the eyes or for getting proper restful sleep so have got a bedside light that can be dimmed, although if it's turned off completely she wakes up and turns it up to full brightness again, so not a total success!

OP - I guess if he is grey and grumpy then he probably does need more sleep than he gets. My DS1 is a very hyperactive cheery soul most of the time and doesn't seem to get tired during the day so I figure he must be getting enough sleep on the 10-10 1/2 hours he gets.

I have given up trying to do anything with the 6-6.30 starts - I think that is naturally his wake-up time as he has always been an early riser since he was a baby - can't fight nature!!

my 7 til 7 dd has never been much of a napper. she only ever did 30 min naps and none at all from 18 months old.

early waking was resolved by a timerfairies coming to switch her light on.

and her bed time is 'after humf' so at 6.30 she knows it's time to go upstairs.

she started wanting a light on from about age 2.5 and our compromise there is a small plug in night light, the sort you would put in a hall way, not a special kids one. it just gives a low orange glow.

her only slight oddity is that she likes to have her big toy grage covered by a blanket at nigt as she doesn't like to see it in the dark but fair enough!

yeh, I think just gradually bring the bedtime forward a touch and he'll sleep a bit longer, don't foresee him waking any earlier.
Don't have a real prob with the time of waking, it's just his demeanour over the day would suggest he could do with an hour or so extra, but like I said if he has a nap through the day he just seems totally not ready for sleep at 7 p.m.
thanks to you all for sharing!

dts are just 3 and sleep 7pm - 6.30am

ruddynorah- I 'd @ covering the garage!

My DD (just turned 4 now) would sleep 13 hours if left, but usually goes to sleep at 6:30, gets up at 7am. She has always needed a lot of sleep though.

3yo ds sleeps 2 hours in the day and then about 8.30pm ish to 7am. He still very much needs his daytime nap which is great, we had a few days where we thought he´d dropped it and we were horrified but it was a blip.

maveta, good to know. haven't ruled out reinstating the nap, as he's much brighter for the afternoon after that.

mine sleeps from between half six and half seven pm till about seven or half seven in the morning. he has a nap in the afternoon, on weekdays from about twelve thirty till ten to three (I have to wake him up to go on the school run otherwise he would happily go three hours or so).

yes you are a lucky goat, geraldine!!! thanks tho

lol thats ok, my boys just take after me and dh, we are hideously lazy also!

not lazy, sensible.

My DD has between 11 and 12 hours. On a good night 7pm - 7am, but sometimes 7.30-6.30. About once a week she has a nap of about 45mins (usually falls asleep on the sofa).

its obvious some kids outgrow it much earlier but he sleeps 2-4pm at nursery and at the weekend if we stretch him til 2.30/3pm thinking he might just skip it he gets all eye-rolly/droopy eyelids and starts crying ´no bed´ which, bless him, he hasn´t quite realised is his trademark sign of being ready for bed.

dh and I still nap (heavily) at least 1 hour while he sleeps so dread him outgrowing it, I don´t think I´LL manage the afternoon!

he went through a ´light on´ phase which we were pretty strict about nipping in the bud, we settled on the bathroom light on (right in front of his bedroom door) and slowly phased that out by shutting the bathroom door more and more and then just forgetting to do it. We´ve never shut his door though as he comes into our room in the night so he´d freak if he got up and couldn´t get out of his room.

9hrs ish. 10 on a good night.

Hasn't napped since 13 months. The days are long, the nights are short.