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My 2 1/2 year old's bed time is 7:00. On workdays she gets up between 6:30 and 7:00. On weekends she sleeps in to somewhere between 7:00 and 8:00. She naps 2-3 hours most days.
My 7 year old's bed time is 8:00 on school nights and 8:30 on non-school nights. Sometimes she reads for a little bit after going to bed. On work/school days she gets up at 6:35, and on weekends she stays in her room until she hears someone else get up. That's been her bed time since she was in pre-k.
My kids are 4 and 7. They start getting ready for bed between 8-8:30, and are in bed between 8:30-9. On weekends, they may stay up a tad later if we are out and about, but we typically try to keep it around 9pm. They get up around 7am on weekdays, but sleep later on weekends.
Give or take, or 2 year old's bed time is 8:30. Sometimes 8:00 if she skipped her nap and sometimes 9 if she seems especially awake or if we have guests or on vacation.
We keep a pretty good routine and her wake up time is usually 8am. I'm good with it but we may need to do an earlier bedtime in the future for school!! The only problem is, even when I put her to bed early, it just means it will take her longer to fall asleep and without fail, 8am seems to be her wake up no matter when I put her to sleep!
My kids are past the baby/young child stage now, but back in the day I lived by routine and scheduling. Those in diapers were changed, given a bottle, and settled by 7-7:30pm, whereas the older ones (5-ish and up) were allowed to stay up later. 8:00pm typically.
If and when there was something special that was going on (weekends, holidays, etc), I stretched bedtime hours/rules, otherwise regular household bedtime hours/rules were lived up to.
Mornings were another thing. If older ones awoke with an edge or chip, they were guaranteed an earlier bedtime the following night, as for those at the baby/toddler stage, I cinched up any shortfalls or problematic behaviour issues with naps, though it's difficult to address waking/morning issues with little ones.
I was wondering what time people put their small kids to bed and do you let them stay up later on weekends, etc? What time do they wake up in the morning?
My 4 yr old goes to bed around 7:30 and wakes up between 6:30 and 7:00
On weekends we let her stay up until a little past 8pm. Just wondering what others do?
I find that a set bedtime helped my daughter better able to fall asleep and stay asleep. It was torture for a while, but now it's easy. We always used the same routine every night, and it took about 20-30 minutes.
At 7:00 we would say it was time for night-night, so we would tidy up her area and then potty...etc...
Read a book and cuddle for 5-10 minutes, then turn off lights and put on the fan. Done by 7:30.
If she got up, we put her back in bed without talking...etc...
If you just throw your kids in bed at night, without letting them wind down they will have a hard time sleeping.
When I was little, bedtime was 7:30 pm. Later on Sundays, when Lassie was on. As I go older, between 8:30 and 9 pm. With my own, I always put them down at 7:30 pm, unless they were infants and breast fed...then they normally were on their own schedules. As they too got older, it was normally 8:30 to 9 pm because when we lived in Toms River, they started school at 7:30 am.
My H let his daughter (then 4) set her own sleeping times on the weekend because "she's really good at going to bed when she's tired" and she usually woke up around 7. When we married I set a bedtime of 8:30-9 for her (even though she didn't "act tired"), and she falls asleep right away and still gets up at 7 - but she's not as cranky during the day. She's 6 now, and she goes to bed earlier on school nights so she can get up earlier.
My oldest is 7, and her bedtime in summer is 9, and during the school year is 8:30. She HATES bedtime, always has, but if I have her read to me while she's laying in bed she is always ready to put the book down and turn the light off after about 15 minutes.
The youngest is now 4. He doesn't need as much sleep as the girls. His target bedtime is 8, but as soon as I leave the room he turns on his lamp and "reads" more until he's ready to go to sleep. (I am not supposed to know this.) He always gets up at 6:15, regardless of when he goes to sleep.
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She's 6 now, and she goes to bed earlier on school nights so she can get up earlier.
