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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  My 7 year old goes to be at 9 and wakes up between 7-7:30.  7:30 is really early for a kid that old.  I think letting your 7 year old stay up in another room is probably better.  It might be worse for the younger one if they have to look at the older one doing something while they are supposed to be sleeping.  [/quote]

My 6 yo, soon to be 7, goes to bed between 7:30 and 8. He needs the sleep. Each kid is different.

My DS takes a while to fall asleep, mainly he wants to be with us and not sleeping. He activly fights falling asleep. He will wake up in the morning and tell us that he didn't sleep at all because he doesn't need sleep. We have a running joke in our family. DS falls asleep in the car, I take a picture (not the driver), DS wakes up and swears he was not sleeping. I show him the picture and he tells us he was resting his eyes but he was wake.

More likely then not, the older kid just doesn't want to go to bed and it has nothing to do with the bed time.

If she is not super cranky because of the shift, I would let her read a bit but not in the shared room. It is likely to distract her sibling. I would do all your normal bed time stuff with both of them, send the older one to a quiet spot to read for 20 minutes and tuck in the younger one for bed. The older one has to go to bed quietly at the end of the 20 minutes.

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