My kids go to bed between 7 and 7:15pm.. I am wondering if this is too early. But ds and dd will fall asleep within 5-10mins.
they get up between 6-7:30am depending.
We have tried keeping them up later so they will sleep in, but they still get up early.
They are almost 4 and 3 in march.. is that too early .?? They dont have naps. When do you "up" the time??? thanks

i think that if the schedule works for you and your kids are making it through the day without naps, not getting up at 4am, and without you losing your sanity, then i wouldn't worry about it being earlier than SOME. usually if kids are having a hard time going to sleep at night, they are overtired and need an afternoon nap, but it sounds like yours are doing great! my dd is in bed at 8, and she'll be 3 next week. she still takes a nap in the afternoon (2-3 hours, depending on if she's having a growth spurt), and goes to bed just fine. all kids are different and have different needs for sleep.

My almost 9 year old son and 5 year old daughter go to bed between 8:30 and 9:00. They get up at 6:30. This schedule works well for them at this age and with school going on. Now if school is not in session....the hours vary a lot :lol: . Stephanie :D

I would love for my children to go to bed at 7 or 8, thereby giving DH and I a few moments of sanity to ourselves each night, however, sometimes I don't get home from work until 6:30 or 7 and I just can't stand to not spend time with my family before declaring "Bedtime!"...therefore, this is how we work it out..

DS (12, almost, gulp, 13) bedtime is 9:30. Supposedly he is to be IN BED with everything but the radio off at that time, but usually at about 9:20 he either decides that he has forgoten some homeowrk or that he really really loves his mommy and daddy and wants to start a deep conversation with us. We are wise to his ways and nip it in the bud.
DD (4) will usually go to bed at that same time if she is not already asleep. Most nights she sleeps with us, so we all cuddle up and fall asleep together.
DS gets up at 6:15 in the morning and DD gets up at 7 so we can get out of the house on time.

It's around 7:00pm for our ds (sometimes sooner if he is really tired) and 8:00pm for our dd. We keep them on a strict schedule. It is good for them and manditory for us...if ya know what I mean. [coupleofspuds]

Sam was going to bed at 9, but with us having to wake her up and take her to work with us, we've bumped it up to down to 8!

we have a mandatory bedtime rule in our house 8:00 pm and all 3 kids are in bed. but my 2 of my kids are generally up at 6:30 and the other one i have to wake up for school

Our kids go to bed between 7-7.30.

They usually talk to each other via their bedrooms - I just ignore it though.

My kids go to bed at 7:30 on schoolnights and around 8 friday night. They are 7,5,4 & 2. They usually don't fall right asleep. They usually get up between 6:30 -7:30 depending on the day.

My 7 year old daughters go to bed at 6:30pm and get up at 6:30am. It has been this way for a couple of years. When my boys were this age they went to bed at 8pm and that worked for them. Do whatever is best for your kids and yourself.

My 6 year old goes to bed at 8 on school nights and I have to wake him up at 6. I don't enforce a bed time on weekends. I am thinking that I should have him in bed earlier during the week though.

We must be bad parents. Ash stays up to 9 or later a lot. :oops: I try to get him on a schedule, but it doesn't seem to matter, we end up fighting with bed times and he keeps coming out of his room.

When Rob was caring for his mother, he was gone for 2 weeks straight and Ash ended up in bed with me almost every night. Since Rob has been back home, I have been trying for about the last 8 days to get him back on schedule. I do give him a afternoon nap and that seems to be the problem, how late he goes down and stays down. On the days that I work he gets up around 6:45. On the days I don't work I let him sleep in if he wants too. Last night around 3 am he got in bed with us so he was up early this morning before work.

I still do the naps because he seems too cranky when I don't, plus he is at daycare 3 days a week and she gives them after lunch naps and kindergarten still makes them lie down for naps.

I think that we just need to be more strict on the times of naps and bedtime.

My daughter is 5 and she is in the bed between 8-8:30 each night. She gets up around 7.

I have read that children this age need at least 10 hours of sleep a night, so that timing works for us.

Ds is 2 and he used to go to bed at 6pm, but then he was getting up between 4-5am which was a little too early. Now he goes to sleep between 7:30pm and 8pm and wakes up between 6-7am. He still takes his afternoon nap around 12-1pm.

My DD goes to bed at 9 and sleeps until 8 or 8:30 in the morning. She is 29 months. She npas from 2:30-4 most days, though sometimes she spends he first 45 minutes or so singing and readiing books to herself. My DS, he is 6 months, is still not really on a schedule yet. Some nights he is asleep by 7:45 other nights it is not until after 9.

We start the "routine" at 7:20 (after Franklin on Treehouse :oops: ), so after stories, teeth, and etc. they're down by 8. Up usually anywhere between 6:30 and 7:30.

I agree though, if it works for you, then go for it!

(Somedays I want to put them to bed at 2 in the afternoon.)

Wes is two and a half and he goes to bed around 9. He have moved it up about a hour from last year.

I'm happy if my baby goes to bed by 10:30, I started doing storytime with him in the crib, he fusses at first, but then finally falls asleep, used to work when my oldest was a baby.....

my 2 1/2 year old goes to bed anywhere between 6-7 depending on if she had a nap or not... she wakes up at 7 which is a good time for us. My 3 1/2 year old goes to bed at 7-7:30 he wakes up at 6... but if we put him down later he gets up earlier :shock: now that I think about it those have been their bed times for probably almost 2 years! My daughter has always loved to sleep and my son loves to NOT sleep :D

2.5 year old son goes to bed 8 to 8:30 depending on what's going on and sleeps until about 7am now.

I would love for my children to go to bed at 7 or 8, thereby giving DH and I a few moments of sanity to ourselves each night, however, sometimes I don't get home from work until 6:30 or 7 and I just can't stand to not spend time with my family before declaring "Bedtime!"...therefore, this is how we work it out..

I'm guilty of this as well. While I don't get home quite that late, unless I have some sort of meeting, I still get home close to dinner time. Winter time is the worst for this... as it gets darker so much earlier. It's hard to be away all "day" from my family.

Speaking of~ David just snuggled up [cheerful] in my lap and gave me a big bear hug. AWW!!! I love holiday vacations! :D

we are amazingly undisciplined here. we just take all the evening stuff slow paced so, she's in bed anywhere from 8-9:30 most nights. She usually sleeps about 12 hours and lost her nap over the summer so, she has mandatory quite time at home and sometimes she'll nod off for that. we're night owls all three of us- that just works for us. Though, we are trying to rane it in a bit as dh and I are see 1am alot lately. not so, conducive for getting up all chipper like.

DD takes a nap everyday around 2:00 p.m. I put her in the crib and leave the door open. I let her take one special toy with her...so she thinks this is a treat. She whines for a minute...then play for about ten and fall asleep. It's usually two hours. Then she will go to bed at 8:00 P.m. and sometimes she falls right off to sleep...sometimes I can hear her on the monitor 30 minutes later playing. She usually doesn't cry at all at bed time. She usually wakes up around 7:30 a.m. give or take..sometimes earlier...sometimes later. She is 18 months old and has been a crib sleeper since 2 mnths all the way through the night....we just started nap times in the crib here the past couple of months.

My DD when she was an infant clear up to just about 3 mo. ago (she is 2yrs old) went to bed at 7pm also!!! She is an early riser at 6-6:30am & it doesn't matter if we keep her up later or not either. I absolutely LOVED the fact she went to bed soooo early. She also was still taking 2 naps a day until 3 mo. ago....we went through a big transition w/ napping & bed time so now we she goes to bed at 8pm & still gets up 6-6:30. She takes one nap now that is anywhere from 2-3 1/2 hrs long.

my kids are 3 and 5.
they go to be at 7:30pm. My 5 year old goes right to sleep and sleeps until 7:30 am. My 3 year old takes a little bit to go to sleep but he stays quietly in his crib still!

i usually put my kids (2 & 3) to bed at 9:30. that's because when i tried earlier, they woke up at 5 and 6 in the morning and they dont attend a daycare (i'm home with them). :oops: my 8 week old of course decides his own schedule. :wink:

We put Maddy down around 10-10:30 each night....Bill works a lot of nights until 10 and will get home around 10:30...and he wants to see her before she goes to sleep...so that's what we do. She sleeps through the night until about 8:30-9:00ish....it's what works for us here.

Ds is 22 months and usually in bed by 8:30pm.

My oldest who is almost 31/2 goes to bed between 8- 8.30pm and wakes up himself around 7.30am as he goes to Head Start at 8.30am. The baby who is almost 10 months is usally sleeping by 8.30pm too.

Our oldest are the same age and have the same sleep schedule and mine also goes to Head Start at 8:45. He usually has a 1.5 hour nap after schhol. My one year old daughter goes to bed at 7-7:30. They both wake up around 7-7:30.

Our 5 yr old dhas recently started going to bed earlier, like around 8:30, and i think it has improved her behavior. Something to consider! Our 16 mth old dd still takes two naps and goes down usually 7:30,7:45.
Hollie

This is my take on those late night conversations. I don't know what your day is like but I find that my kids are the most emotional, sensitive, open and vulnerable when they are drifting off to sleep.

An eldest child especially may not have the opportunity to talk to mom and dad while the other kids are awake.

Our kids go to bed around 9 or 10 each night. I'd like to have them in bed at 7:30 and asleep by 8. They really do need the sleep. We have from day one had our babies in and out of our bed and now our 7 and 6 year olds usually fall asleep with me in between them. We move them to their beds after they are asleep.

Now, I really would like for them to be in their own beds but those sweet moments-- when they feel more affectionate than they do any other time of the day, as they sort out the days events and tell me things that happened during the day that they haven't had time or interest in telling me--those moments are priceless. I'm not willing to give that up.

Your son may need those times with you to sort out his feelings. I'd be very careful not to stifle his need. You may very well have plenty of other opportunities to have these deep conversations during the day, so please don't be offended. But, if he needs that time maybe you could bump everyone's bedtimes earlier so that he finishes his thoughts by the time you want him to.

Julie

I've always been really strict about the bedtime stuff. DS, age 4 1/2 goes to bed about 8pm every night. When he was younger it was 7, but as he's getting older his schedule is changing a bit. He also takes a 2 hour nap in the afternoons after he eats lunch. Of course there are special occassions though, like if we have company or we are out somewhere. Usually those days are on the weekends, and then there is Awana on Thursday nights here so he doesn't get to bed til 9. His body is really sensitive to light so even if he goes to bed around 10pm he still gets up at the same time...so that is the main reason I've always been really strict with his bedtime.

One thing I'm noticing, here, is that bedtimes may vary, but they all suit our lives/families.

I'd be quite content with getting up each morning at 9, but that's just a pipe dream right now. :lol: I've trained both of my girls to sleep until around 8. The 11 mo has naps in the morning and afternoon, the 2 yo has an afternoon nap. Then, bedtime is anywhere from 7:30-8:00 for the baby, depending on her. The 2 yo goes down at 8:30, which permits DH and I to spend a little one-on-one time together.

my dh and i put our girls down at 8 p.m. everynight. They both take a nap from 1-3p.m. and wake up at 6:30-7:30 in the mornings!

when there is school the next day, it's between 8 and 9. When there's no school, between 8 and 10. We're not big on schedules here. Plus I'm a sucker when they want extra story time. :lol: