what time do your kids go to bed?

Hannah's bedtime is after Shorty St hehe (She's 3 years 8mos)

By the time we finish her story and have various time wasting activities going on it is probably closer to 8. And lately I've been having to wake her at about 7.15am... no idea how long she'd sleep for it I didn't. (Have to wake her to get ready for creche/work)

And funnily enough on weekends she is often up before 7am. Gah!

She still has an afternoon sleep as well (most days)

Edited by nikkiwhyte

Ayja has just turned 3, and Paris will be 5 in about 6 weeks - Both of them go to bed at 7pm, at the same time, sometimes 7.30 if we are having a running late night, or have been somewhere but definately depends what time we are due up the next morning as well. When i'm on mornings we try and start getting them to bed by 6.30 to make up for it. Our bedtime routine tends to start at 6.30 anyway with pajamas, teeth brush, hair brush, story then bed.     

Most mornings Ayja wakes about 6.30am because she's drilled into that routine from my work shifts when she is mostly out of bed by 6.30 but when i have holidays or haven't had early mornings for a while she will stay in bed for closer to 8ish if we're really lucky. Paris would sleep much longer if she didn't get woken by her sister calling out when she wakes up.

Ayja still has a nap every day, from about 12.30 till 2ish, Paris has a rest time for at least half an hour at daycare, but still has an afternoon sleep when home during the week and during the weekends for an hour to 2 hours depending on how tired she is, - at least 1 day during the weekend she sleeps for longer. We are trying to wean her off day sleeps during the week in preparation for school which isn't too hard as most of the time she's at daycare so doesn't have one. - she's always been a good sleeper though and her heart prob plays a bit of a part in that too.

Edited by mum2paris

2bmumof3 i have a bad sleeper here... quite often he wakes once or twice in the night, either to get into my bed or just for a grizzle, and wakes normally at 6 but quite often any time from 5. if he coems in at 6 i dont mind but any earlier i send him back to bed. the other night he woke at 2 then again at 2.30 he was back in my room trying to sneak into bed...

Maya goes to bed after Shorty during the week, and between 8pm-8.30pm on Fri/Sat nights when there is no school the next day. BUT during the week if she doesn't get out of bed and get organised for school she has to go to bed at 6.30pm which she hates. Doesn't motivate her to get organised any faster tho I wake her at 7.15am on school mornings, weekends she usually gets up when the gremlins and I get up.

Gremlins go to bed at 6.30pm and usually wake around 7.15am, but if they don't, I wake them by 7.30am during the week to do the school run. On the weekend I quite often hear them wake around 7.30am but they are happy to play in their cots so I leave them be until they start shaking the bars and calling out.

I wouldn't call any of them good sleepers tho - Maya plays up about going to bed, Mercedes plays up for her daytime sleeps and Sienna, well Sienna is in a league of her own when it comes to night screaming...

My kids are great at going to bed without complaint (well DS2 is trying it on at the mo since DD came home). DS1 is fine throughout the night bu just wakes early, DS2 wakes during the night and tries to climb into our bed sometimes 8 times a night.

DD is just the best little sleeper I could wish for. Goes to bed at 8.30, wakes somewhere between 2.30 and 3.30 then back down till 6.30 (unless boys are really noisy then she wakes at 5 with them    I soo hope that DS1 doesn't create bad habbits for DD also as he seems to be for DS2.

It's comforting just to hear there's others up at the crack of dawn (well dawn doesn't even crack till gone 7 now, which makes it seem even earlier).

Michaela goes through stages of early waking somewhere between 5am -6am and I also get night visits but I'm a pretty heavy sleeper and usually she'll climb into bed next to me and I won't realise until my alarm wakes me in the morning so it doesn't actually bother me.  Even so we do like to encourage her to stay in her own bed so she gets a stamp in the morning if she's slept in her bed all night.

Ivy goes to bed by 7pm most nights unless something special is going on, she is up at 7am in the morning and has a nap probably 3-4 days a week after lunches.

Alyssa (almost 2) sleeps 7pm to 7-7:30am and no change to this even though we moved her to a big girl bed last weekend. She dropped day naps months ago and even though on the very odd occassion she has napped during the day, this doesn't seem to effect the night pattern.

Kryssi down 6.45pm, Bria 7pm, Hannah 7-7.30pm

Hannah wakes up first at 6.45am, followed by the others at about 7 or 7.15am.

Kryssi still has two day sleeps, Briona has a midday sleep (after lunch) and Hannah's growing out of her day sleep.

All of mine are in bed by 7:30pm unless we have been out then it mite be abit later. Katelyn is the early riser in our house as soon as she hears DHs alarm go off, which at the moment is at 6:30, shes up and away, Blair and Ryan normally wake about 7.
Ryan and Katelyn still have an arvo sleep from bout 1 till 3. Man if they dont they are the worst kids to be around, they get so grumpy and anything sets them off.