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In another thread, another poster was talking about elementary school kids going to bed at 8:00 PM as if it were the norm. My kids have never gone to bed before 9:00. I'm curious what your children's normal bed time was when they were in elementary school.
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Wouldn't that depend on the starting time of the school and the age of the child? IME, it;s foolish to expect an eleven-year-old fifth grader to have the same bedtime as a beginning kindergartener who's just turned five.
I think it really varies as each child is different. My friend's little brother (around 8-ish) doesn't go to sleep before 10:30 pm and wakes up at 5-6 am. And he's still active the next time until his next bedtime >.>
Our children are 7 (2nd gr) and 3... they are both upstairs by 8pm, our 7 yr old is almost always asleep within 20 minutes or so. Sometimes takes our little one a little longer,depending on whether she had a nap that day or not.
How do some of you get your children out the door so quickly though for school? our daughter takes FOREVER to eat her breakfast! she has to be to school by 8:05 and although we don't really ever have to wake her up (they are both very early risers and always have been) ,she is up by 6:45am and sometimes at 7:20am I am still having to ask her to please eat! it drives me nuts!
Wouldn't that depend on the starting time of the school and the age of the child? IME, it;s foolish to expect an eleven-year-old fifth grader to have the same bedtime as a beginning kindergartener who's just turned five.
It's true that my ten-year-old daughter needs a little less sleep than my seven-year-old son, but my husband and I need the time together at the end of the day to relax and reconnect. For me, that's reason enough to enforce an early bedtime. She compensates by waking up a little earlier than her brother.
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It's true that my ten-year-old daughter needs a little less sleep than my seven-year-old son, but my husband and I need the time together at the end of the day to relax and reconnect. For me, that's reason enough to enforce an early bedtime. She compensates by waking up a little earlier than her brother.
Yep. That's why mine are in bed at 8:00. DH and I need time alone and together without the children.
I never had a strictly enforced time to go to sleep. I was generally in my room by ten p.m., but was usually awake and reading with my little bedside clip lamp on until after midnight. My parents may have done bedtime story time at 8 or 9 in early elementary, I really don't remember. But they were pretty relaxed about what time we actually went to sleep, as everyone in my family is pretty much a night owl.
It definitely depends on the child. I think it is important to get 11 to 12 hours a night of sleep for a kindergartener and younger. Our oldest was in bed at 7:30, and sound alseep soon after (he could sleep through anything), but our youngest (just turned 5) has always given us trouble. If he is not wore out, or wound down by 7, he can be tough to get into bed by 7:30, and sometimes he will still be awake at 9:30. He needs his sleep though. If he doesn't get 11 hours and a nap during the day he can be tough to deal with. I used to have to get him up by 6:30 so a 7:30 bed time was a must. But my wife and I started new jobs that had us working later, so it was harder getting him wore down enough by the time we got home until he needed to go to bed.
He is in a new school now so he gets to sleep in until 7 or so. (he would wake by 7:30 no matter what anyways). Now he stays up a little later, until 8 most nights. The weekends are different, but 8 for the most part during the week.
I wouldn't have a problem with 8:30 or 9 in the next couple of years. But I am sure my wife will want to stick with 8 for as long as possible
Now, with no naps in Kindergarten, he is out fast.
For my kids, its 10 hours before you have to get up the next morning.
My older son now has to get up at 6:00, so hee goes to bed at 8:00. He's 12.
My younger som is 9, he gets to stay up until 9:00.
Until these early mornings started, 9:00 had been the default bedtime for both.
I remember when they wre preschool age and my husband worked 2nd shift and I worked days - I would put them to bed at like 7:30 just to get some peace. It was probably good on many levels.
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