what time are your elementary school kids going to bed tonight?

[Anonymous]

My kids go to bed at about 9-9:30 on school nights. Sometimes it could be later if sports run late. They’ve never been kids that could go to bed at 7 though past toddlerhood, they’ll wake up at 12 and can’t fall back to sleep until 4 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids go to bed at about 9-9:30 on school nights. Sometimes it could be later if sports run late. They’ve never been kids that could go to bed at 7 though past toddlerhood, they’ll wake up at 12 and can’t fall back to sleep until 4 am.

Yep this is my kid too. Almost 8 now. We get up at 715. She will sleep later on weekends sometimes.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Shower at 8. Then my husband reads until about 9/9:15 and then lights out. Daughter is almost 10, entering 4th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What time do you expect your child to wake?

Bedtime is only half the equation.

+ 1

Pre-sleep rituals are also important.

Yes and no. People can get too reliant on a very specific and consistent routine, and the kids turns into a disaster when everything isn't perfectly in place. Gotta instill some resilience in kids too.

+1. Don’t become a slave to the routine. You will end up with kids and parents who have trouble with 2 hour time differences and who waste half their vacation jet lagged because they can’t deal with one night of 6 hours of sleep.

Slave to routine is different from going to bed at a reasonable time leading up to the first day of school.

[Anonymous]

2nd grader, just turned 7. In bed at 7:30, lights out at 8:00. One night per week it’s a half hour later due to sports. Wake up at 6:45-7:00. She’s a kid who wants a lot of sleep.

[Anonymous]

I am working on creating a more structured evening/morning routine for my kids this year (we've never held to rigid routines which is good and bad).

My 7 year old is going to have bath/brush teeth/pj's around 6:30-7:00 and then reading/quiet time 7:00/7:15 with lights out at 7:45.

10 year old has some evening activities and doesn't get home until 6:45 twice a week and 7:45 another day and so he is allowed to have quiet time in his room until 8:30/8:45.

Fridays/Saturdays I will allow them to stay up later and sleep in on weekends if they want.

My kids wake-up at 6:15/6:30

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What time do you expect your child to wake?

Bedtime is only half the equation.

+ 1

Pre-sleep rituals are also important.

Yes and no. People can get too reliant on a very specific and consistent routine, and the kids turns into a disaster when everything isn't perfectly in place. Gotta instill some resilience in kids too.

+1. Don’t become a slave to the routine. You will end up with kids and parents who have trouble with 2 hour time differences and who waste half their vacation jet lagged because they can’t deal with one night of 6 hours of sleep.

Slave to routine is different from going to bed at a reasonable time leading up to the first day of school.

you cant win this argument

[Anonymous]

Too late. She dances til 9:00. 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

5th grade. My goal is to have her sleeping by 10pm.

[Anonymous]

Mine sleeps 9 pm to 7 or 7:30 am. Seems to work great.

[Anonymous]

We used to have a strict-ish 7:30 bed time, but then the older kids got into travel sports and that's juts not realistic with practices ending at 730 on some evenings. Now it's roughly between 8:30 and 9:30 (preferably before 9, but that does not always happen) on weekdays.

[Anonymous]

Summer was pushing ten pm, so we are trying to get back to 9. I mean summer sunsets when you are young ! Can’t give that up. We managed the 7am wake up ok. 8 am wake ups during summer for camp.

[Anonymous]

9pm for the 7am wake up. DD is starting 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

My ES kids have lights out between 9-9:30 (usually having been reading for about 20-30 min before the lights out) and wake up on their own well-rested at 7:45 for an 8:30 out-the-door time. Works perfectly for us. I can't even fathom a 7 or 7:30 bedtime. But again, we have a nice late start to our ES.