When they are younger they have stayed up later and slept longer. Ad my son is jerking older and is no longer day napping he is in bed by 8pm but not everyday is the same. Depends on what we are doing or what we have in the next day. Sometimes he just won’t sleep so he does something quietly and we try again in 15mins and repeat until he goes to sleep

I wish the chart would cover teenagers too. I’ve a 14 and 15yr old. How late do your teenagers go to bed / wake ?

7 year old goes to bed at 8:30, wakes about 6:15.It used to be 7:30 bedtime when younger. It’s hard when they insist they are not tired and especially during daylight saving.

Mine were usually in bed by 7.30 to 8.30 no matter what age they were. They always played outside for a good hour or two and all belonged to a club be it cubs, brownies, guides or scouts or some variant in between which usually started at 6 and finished at 7.30 and they were always too tired to stay up much after that. They woke around 6am – it just seemed to happen in our house without any problems.

hmmm 9pm for my 4yr old and he wakes at about 8am

My 4 does not sleep ????????‍♀️ Well barely !
He goes to sleep at 11ish every night sometimes later ????

• • 
  • • Ellen replied
    • 20 Feb 2020 , 8:35 am

  ---

  

  I would write down when he sleeps and wakes during the night and when the info concerns you go to the GP for a referral to see an ENT to get a sleep test done

I thought that mine were going to bed too late but the chart says it’s probably too early. No wonder they protest!

• • 
  • • Ellen replied
    • 21 Feb 2020 , 4:48 am

  ---

  

  Lol ! how old are they and how late do they wake and are going to bed ?

Earlier is better, but I can be confiscating books from under the covers at midnight!

The earlier the better – even if they get up early, they get the maximum amount of sleep that they need.

Hmmm my 9 & 11 year old go to bed between 8-8.30 most days sometimes 7.30 if tired. That was the routine until a few months ago. I’m trying to get them up at 6.30-7 at the lasest. I don’t think them staying awake until 9pm is good. Makes them too tired and grumpy not to mention hard to fall asleep.

My 6 year old is bath at 6:30 including teeth, bed at 7 and asleep by 8. We stick to it quite easily. Its annoying but having a routine you stick to does make things heaps easier.

Definitely a fail. We try and try but some days its like hitting one’s head against a brick wall. I don’t like charts at all. Little ones fall asleep earlier unless there is an underlying condition. I don’t mind if kids read in bed at all as long as they are in bed!

I always liked our kids to go on time to bed. I struggle with my 6yr old (T21). She’s up so early no matter how late I put her to bed. She went to bed around 9pm yesterday night and is awake from 4am this morning. She wakes in general between 3.30-4.30am I’m going to ask for a sleep test next time we visit the ENT specialist.

My kids had the 7am bedtime from about age 3 until school age. Then it gradually increased with age. There’s 3 years between my kids, so there was a half hour later bedtime for the older one when school began. Wake up time varied

7.30pm until they are year 7
8pm Year 7-8
8.30 – 9pm year 9
9.30- 10pm year 10-12

7 .00 pm is our bedtime and its works for us

This is so unrealistic for me. We would never be able to go out for dinners etc if their bedtime was this early. Am I the only one

7.30 is bedtime at my house, any later and it’s chaos the next morning.

My 2.5 year old has reading time from about 7:30-8pm every night, and then we tell him 2 made up short storied in bed and hes asleep by 8:30 at the latest

I only had two kids so bedtime wasn’t that much of a hassle. I had a few issues when the youngest was old enough to question why the older one got a later bedtime, but it was easily explained