What Time Does Your Fourth Grader Go To Bed?
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Anonymous
I feed mine dinner before sports so afterwards its just snack, shower, bedtime. |
Anonymous
Same - kids eat as soon as they get home from school at 4:15. Practice is 5-7. Back home for a snack, shower and bed at 8/8:30. Homework is done in the mornings. |
Anonymous
| Mine are going into 5th and 3rd and it’s around 8pm. We encourage them to read so it’s likely closer to 8:30 before the lights are out. |
Anonymous
Mornings? Mine walk to school at 7:45! |
Anonymous
| Everyone needs 10 hours. I just count back 10 from when they need to wake up. Of course the teens get less sleep as they have to wake up early and have trouble going to bed early. |
Anonymous
| 9pm |
Anonymous
| My kids share a room with a young sibling so it’s bed and lights off at 7:30 (10, 8 and 3 year old). In our culture we don’t do a lot of organized sports so it’s not a problem. |
Anonymous
| Bedtime at 8:45, lights out 9, they are asleep usually by 9:15 (rising 4th and K). Fourth grader wakes up at 7:15, kindergartner at 7:45, we’re out the door at 8:15 (school is around the corner). |
Anonymous
10 pm is way too late for a school night. I have a kid the same age. 9 or 9:30 at the absolute latest. Changing to to 8:30 or 9. |
Anonymous
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We start bedtime between 8:30 - 8:45, lights out by 9:00.
School starts at 9 a.m. and we wake her up at 8 a.m. She’s a very deep, long sleeper and usually gets 11 hrs per night. I’m actually dreading the start of middle school in 2 years when she’ll have to get up way earlier. |
Anonymous
How? I am not even off the clock until 5:30, usually it’s 6:15 by the time I actually finish work. Drive home, then to even get in the house, go pee, wash hands, change out of work clothes to prevent staining those while cooking, then to even begin dinner isn’t until 7:30. |
Anonymous
You need a nanny or don’t work |
Anonymous
| Upstairs around 8:30, read until 9/9:30. School bus doesn’t pick up until 8:45 so even if he reads until 10ish there is still time to sleep until 7:30/8 (~11 hours) so there is no point to harping on closing eyes early. He just needs to be quiet in his room. Recently on vacation we let him stay up to do stuff with us until 10:30. It’s fun now that we don’t have to be back in a hotel room by 7:30 for bedtime. |
Anonymous
Not true. 95% yes, but some people really are low sleep needs (mine only needed 9 hours total by age 2). But if you have one of these rare kids, you’d know because you’d have been battling sleep issues from infancy. |
Anonymous
not if you are waking up at 8am |