What Time Does Your Fourth Grader Go To Bed?
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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. |
Anonymous
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Most arec9? Wut? |
Anonymous
No. Most THIRD graders are 9. Starting Oct 1 of 3rd grade is when (around here) they all start to turn 9. Only the absolute youngest kids will turn 9 in Sept of 4th grade. |
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Anonymous
| There are a lot of early bedtimes listed here. 9-9:30 and awake at 7 am is normal in our house. Evening sports last to 8 pm or later every night. |
Anonymous
That sounds normal to me |
Anonymous
| 9:00 or 9:30pm but their bus comes at 9:00am so they don't need to wake up until 8:00. |
Anonymous
How long does "prepping dinner" take? What kind of elaborate meals are you making? We usually have dinner at 6:00 or 6:30 - regardless of whether it's a work from home or a work from the office day when I get home at 5:30. |
Anonymous
8:00 doesn't seem early to me. Up until this year (my kids are 8 and 11), my kids were required to be upstairs by 8:00, in their beds by 8:30. DH and I both work full time out of the home. This is not a stay at home vs working parents thing. |
Anonymous
At this time of year, yes, almost all 4th graders are 9. Throughout the fall most 4th graders will still be 9. It's not until spring of 4th grade that most 4th graders are 10, and there are still spring/summer birthday kids who are 9 through most or all of 4th grade. |
Anonymous
Every single 4th grader who was not redshirted starts 4th grade at 9. Most 4th graders spend the first half to 3/4 of the school year at age 9. A few will have fall birthdays, but no more than 1/4 of the class. Signed, A 4th grade teacher |