Bedtime for rising K (5 years old)

[Anonymous]

7:00

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours goes down between 7:30 and 8:30 depending on situation. It’s super hard this time of year because of the daylight. The goal is 7:30-7:45 and wake up around 7:00-7:30 but it’s pretty variable. Tonight it was 8. She’s stay up till 10 if we let her and still wake up at 7. It’s a drag.

Why is it a drag? Is she tired the next day?

My kid has low sleep needs and can go to sleep at 8:30 or 9 and get up at 7 and it doesn't impact her mood. Some kids are just like this.

[Anonymous]

9pm, unfortunately

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At that age 630 to 730.

6:30 is excessive unless an abnormally early wake up.

Excessive is a weird choice of word. Sleep needs are a range and individual schedules vary by family. I remember putting my 4 year old to bed at 630 a few times. 700 was more likely, but really never past 730. He woke up at 530 or 600, so it fit development. He is in 6th grade and never wakes that early now! Its a phase.

I dont care when other 4 year olds go to bed, but OP doesn't need to try and force later if earlier is working. 730 is a very normal bed time for that age. Summer doesn't really have anything to do with it if her kid is still waking at the same time as school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At that age 630 to 730.

6:30 is excessive unless an abnormally early wake up.

as a kid i consistantly went to bed at 7ish and woke up at 4:30 but was only allowed to read at 5am lol. not common i think but it happens.

[Anonymous]

Wow I am impressed so many say 7:30

Lately this summer it’s been around 9-9:30 for my K but he still sleeps 11-12hours

Ideally I’d shoot for 8pm-8am

[Anonymous]

7-7:30.

[Anonymous]

When mine was a rising kindergartener, bedtime was generally 7 pm. High sleep needs kid, and that's really when his little body was screamign that he needed to go to bed anyway.

Even now, as an 8 year old, lights out is still 7:45 (unless we're out doing something like a baseball game). Still has higher sleep needs, and he naturally wakes between 7 and 7:30 am.

[Anonymous]

My highest sleep needs kid still tried to nap in kindergarten 😂 if she didn’t nap she was out by 7, usually before.
She woke at 6:30 or before no matter what, so we couldn’t keep her up later without total disaster.
My other kids were more flexible and my youngest was mostly on the older kids’ schedule, in bed by 8 asleep by 8:30.

[Anonymous]

8 pm. My 3 year old also goes to bed at 8pm (he naps though). My 8 year old stays up until 8:30, but the last 30 min are her reading to herself. My kids all wake up at 8am and aren't tired by 7:30pm even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At that age 630 to 730.

6:30 is excessive unless an abnormally early wake up.

I also had one who had a 6:30 bedtime - he had a reading light go off at 6:45, then would wake up the next morning around 6:45. Bus came at 7:30. A lot of 5 yos still need 12 hours of sleep. It's a lot healthier to go to bed at 6:30 and wake up naturally than it is to be woken up for school by a parent or an alarm.

[Anonymous]

7:30, unless there’s a (very rare) nap.