What Time Does Your Fourth Grader Go To Bed?
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Anonymous
| 11 ish |
Anonymous
| 10:00pm |
Anonymous
I bet a lot of them work from home so they prep dinner during the workday. |
Anonymous
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For those of you putting your 10 year old down at 8pm - do they not do sports?
My 9 yo is at practice that doesn’t end until 8:30 twice a week. |
Anonymous
| I go to bed at 9. So, before me. |
Anonymous
No we homeschool |
Anonymous
| We aim for 9, but it is usually closer to 9:30 because of evening activities. |
Anonymous
I was thinking the same. Kids in bed around 9pm. |
Anonymous
I’m 44 and would hate eating dinner at 8pm. That’s insane! To answer OP, mine are in bed by 8pm because they have to wake up at 6:45 to get ready for school - ours starts early. |
Anonymous
I work PT out of the house, but we cook every other night or so, so on nights with sports we can eat before practice (yeah, at 4:30 or whatever). Homework has historically been done right when the kids get home, but we were at a very low (to no) homework ES and moving forward my 9 turning 10 5th grader will be at a school with more homework - but an earlier release time - so we'll see if that holds. Working PT helps because my kids aren't in aftercare so we can go straight into an evening routine. My kid who just finished 4th wakes up early almost no matter what. 10pm bedtime would be rough unless that shifted. |
Anonymous
DH and I stagger work schedules. He works 6-2:30, I work 8-4:30 and have a 20 minute commute. So we generally eat dinner around 5:15. My youngest is 5 and goes to bed at 6:30! (He has special needs though). He gets up at 6:45. My older two are entering 5th and 7th grade and go to bed around 8:30, after which point they can read (the 7th grader would be later except her middle school bus comes at 6:45 and she is always tired during the week) |
Anonymous
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Dinner at 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m., baths starting at 7:30 p.m.; 3rd grader in bed at 8:00 p.m., 6th grader in bed by 9:00 p.m. (started in 5th grade), both asleep within 30 minutes. Both kids are normally early risers: 3rd grader up at 6:30, 6th grader between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m.
Schedule pushes back one night a week for each child for sports. 2 working parents, 2 active kids with dance classes, soccer, swim, and flag football. Hope that helps to give context. |
Anonymous
| 8:45 during summer, 8:30 during the regular year. Tends to fight bedtime, though. Often awake by 7, but will sometimes sleep in. |
Anonymous
Most 4th graders are 9. And yes my 9 year old goes to get at 8. If it is a practice or game night it might be 8:30. But I don’t change bedtime the other nights because of 1-2 sports nights per week. Our games and practices are 6-7:30. But we live in a county with early ES start times so it’s normal here for kids to go to sleep early. |
Anonymous
Yeah I got to bed too early to be eating that late. I'd feel awful and never sleep. I work, but I start early enough to leave by 3 when I'm in the office and start cooking dinner right after school. |