When Is Bedtime?

all 3 of my kids (14 spec needs, 10 and 7) are in bed by 8pm and asleep by 8:30. They get up about 6-6:30. Same schedule on the weekends.

Bed time in this house was 7:30 until 4th grade or so... 8:30 until 8th grade... 9pm high school... they have to be up mighty early in the morning, so we send them up at 9 and let them read until 10. Oldest is 17... and he knows that unless he goes to bed early, he can't get up in time in the morning....
YMMV
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my 6 yo goes to bed around 730. I don't think 830 is too early, especially during the school year. During the summer you may want to extend until 9P, but I think you are fine right now.

I have a 5,3, & 1 yr old.. soo.. depends on the day for me.. but if they're outside alot and if the 3 yr old has no nap.. then 7ish.. but normally i've been putting them both down bout 8-8:30 for bed b/c they need it.. My one year old obvioulsy goes down bout 7, but still if he's not whiney i let him hang out till bout 8 also. I guess it just depends on the day and how exciting it was.. if it's raining and cold outside i may let them stay up a lil' longer cuz they have all that energy they didnt get out.. I dont know about an 8 year old.. i'm not there yet with mine.. but good luck :)

My 8 yr old & my twin 4 yr olds are all in bed at 7:30...8 at the latest. The little two get up by 6:45 on their own, but big sis needs to get up by alarm at 6:15 because the bus comes at 7:15. When she stays up later, she feels like she's dying in the morning when that alarm goes off, so she agrees with her bedtime. In the summer and on weekends, we often move bedtime to about 8:30 just because we're all a little more laid back and having dinner & doing things later. We make the transition gradually back to the school schedule.

All the kids in our house go to bed at 8:30... All the school aged kids HAVE to get up at 7... Better to get them in bed and have them be well rested then have to put up with the grumps the next day... In summer we are a bit more flexible... Perhaps let your tween stay up till 9 after school is out (but have to get up at the same time in the morning as usual) as a test of how they react to the later bed time. Make a good attitude all day be the rule or bed time moves back up...This puts the kid in charge of their attitude and gives them the "power". :-)

My 9 and 5 year old are required to be in the bed at 8:00pm and lights out at 8:30pm. On weekends it's a little bit later.

We have a rule of thumb in my house Under 5 goes to bed at 7pm 5yr-9yr go to bed at 8pm 10 and over may choose there bedtime within reason. My husband and I set this up about 5 years or so ago and have never had any problems also our children stop taking naps at 5yrs it helps them sleep at night! Hope I helped!

Totally depends on the kid. The guideline of how much sleep a kid needs is just that, a guideline. I'd love for my 8 year old to go to bed earlier, but she's just not a sleeper. She is often in bed by 8:30 or 9pm, but she reads until 10pm or a little later. Then she's up at 6am ready to go! She is never dragging during the day (it exhausts me just watching it) When she was little I would force the issue because I was afraid she was staying up just to be a pain in the neck. Now that's she older I've stopped fighting it b/c she has made it obvious to me that she'll go to sleep when she's tired!

My 7 yr old has an 8pm bedtime, my 9yr old is 8:30pm and my 12yr old is at 9pm, although recently he's shown us that he can handle a later bedtime and still be fully functioning the next day, so we might change his to 9:30pm.

Mine have the same problem. We aim for 9 for my 11 yo and 9:30 for my 13 yo, but that JUST changed from 8:30 and 9.

Someone told me that teens have weird circadian rhythms that cause them to be more "night owls" and then want to sleep in.

it depends on when they need to get up and how they act we they do get up. mine go to bed between 8 and 10 but they dont always gostraight to sleep my eldest someties eads or wathes a moie i bed first while the youngest watches cartoons or a movie before drifting off. i they are tired they fall asleep if not these things let them relax until they are able to drift off. if i notice that they are tired in the mornings then i make them go o bed an hour before they had that ight prior. in the summer or any night we dont have to get up in the morning we pretty much let them go to bed when they want. my 10 year old ends up sleeping 9 hours like you said but the 5 year old sleeps longer than that more like 11 or 12 hours a night without naps.

10 y/o goes to bed around 9:00-9:30 asleep by 10:00-10:30`ish, he gets up at 7:00am (during school). Weekends/summer he goes to bed when he wants unless we have something going on that requires us getting up early. I think like others have said it depends on your child....mine doesn't get cranky or crabby with little sleep. Never has - he stopped napping at about a year old...I would still put him in the crib for 'nap time' but he would NEVER fall asleep ~ would just lay there for a couple hours talking, standing, moving, looking around ??

I have a staggered bedtime for my 3, otherwise they would just talk all night long, my boys share a room. Here is our schedule: 7yo dd 8:30-a problem in summer when sun is still up, but oh, well, she needs her sleep; 12yo ds 9pm;14yo ds 9:30. I am sometimes not far behind them. I hope that this helps.

It all depends on your child. My 12 year old goes to bed at 9:30-10 and gets up at 6:30 with no problem or question. She is not a sleeper and funtions well on tht amount of sleep. You will have to go by trial and error. Let them stay up a half hour later and see how they do.

I think it depends on how much sleep your child needs. Do they require (I say require instead of need. I think most NEED 11-12 hours of sleep) a certain amount of sleep? My daughter and son both sleep around 10 hours per night, no matter what time their bedtime is. But they function great on that during the day. I'd say 830/9 is a good bedtime for that age. My 2.5 year old goes to bed at 8pm and my almost 9 month old goes down at 7 (tried to move this back to 8!).

Well, my kids are different ages than yours, but bedtime for my 6 (almost 7) and 3 yo is 7:30-8-ish. They really like to read a lot, so sometimes we are on the later side. But I realize that if they are not in bed by 8, they are super grumpy in the morning, and hard to wake up, and even harder to get motivated to get ready.
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My son is 11 and up at 6 am on a school day. That means in bed and lights out by 8 or 9 pm. If we're tired enough or coming down with something, bed time will be earlier. I always feel awful if I'm short on sleep, so I go out of my way to make sure he gets enough.

My 6 year old needs a ton of sleep or he is grouchy, so he goes to bed at 7:00 every night, even on the weekends. My 12 year old goes to sleep at 9:00, and I've checked on him often at 9:15 and he's sound asleep. I think he falls asleep soon after his head hits the pillow. He's more of a night owl on the weekends, and I don't mind since he can sleep in.