s/o s/o when does your 5-7 year old go to bed?

[hillview]

DS1 is just 6 and goes to bed (lights out) at 8 pm.

[artvandalay]

DS1 is just 6 and goes to bed (lights out) at 8 pm.

:yeahthat: Yep. We typically do lights out at 8pm for my 4 and 6 year old.

This summer we've been busy with stuff, so occasionally it's a little later. During the school year, we're pretty strict about it, though.

[Gena]

Ds is 7 and goes to bed at 8:30 during the school year. We have been a little less strict on bedtime during the summer, so sometimes we stretch it to 9:00pm.

[carolinamama]

Another 8:00 lights out here. This applies to school nights as we may stretch to even 9:00 during the summer or special occasions on the weekend.

[lmintzer]

My younger DS is 7.5. Lights out at 8:15. During the summer, it's been more like 8:30.

We've had a couple of exceptions for a late sporting event & 4th of July. But we're pretty rigid about bedtime here on the whole.

[Twoboos]

We try for 8pm lights out, tucks in done, add'l kisses given, all other stalling methods complete. It make me nuts when we go past this time, sometimes it creeps to 8:20 or more.

I think DD2 (will be 6yo soon) needs to go to be a little eariler than this, but there's NO WAY to get her into bed when DD1 (nearing 8yo) isn't. The claims of "That's not FAIR" would keep her up til 8 anyway.

[elephantmeg]

8 here too. Except on Tues night when we eat at DH's grandma's and supper isn't until 7 so it's rarely before 9 that we are home and the kids are in bed

[lhafer]

Ds is 7 and goes to bed at 8:30 during the school year. We have been a little less strict on bedtime during the summer, so sometimes we stretch it to 9:00pm.

:yeahthat: Expect mine is 5yrs old.

[mikeys_mom]

DS will be 7 in September. DH reads to DS until around 8:15pm, then DS reads on his own until 8:30pm. Lights out is usually 8:30pm but we sometimes stretch it to 8:45pm if he asks for a few extra minutes to finish reading.

[pastrygirl]

It was 7pm until just before vacation... now it's more like 9! I need to get back to the 7ish time frame. He is always tired and cranky now.

[Clarity]

This summer we've been busy with stuff, so occasionally it's a little later. During the school year, we're pretty strict about it, though.

:yeahthat: Another 8p.m. Although some nights I get them down by 7:30p and some nights we're up a bit that. It all depends on the amount of activity that day.

[gordo]

DD is 6. We start bedtime at 8 and its usually lights out by 8:30.

[g-mama]

9pm here during the school year and 9:30 in the summertime.

[brittone2]

8:30-9 for my 7.5 yo but he reads for about a half an hour after that. So he's in bed usually around 9 or 9:30. We HS and he gets up around 7:30-8, sometimes 8:30. I need to get his curtains up in his room (never installed them in the new house and have just been using the blinds as we were waiting until we painted). He tends to wake up earlier in the new house because his room is south facing and much brighter in the morning than in our previous homes.

[Beth24]

DS is now 8 but her school year bedtime is 8/8:30. I've been letting her stay up a little later to read this summer and because her older teenage cousins are visiting. But during the school year bed time is firm!

[TamiRuns]

:yeahthat: Yep. We typically do lights out at 8pm for my 4 and 6 year old.

This summer we've been busy with stuff, so occasionally it's a little later. During the school year, we're pretty strict about it, though.

Our boys are the same age, and we have the same bedtime and do tend to be pretty strict unless we are doing something special.

I feel like our boys have the earliest bedtime of all the kids in our neighborhood and of most of their friends....

[hellokitty]

During the summer, we are more lax, it's not unusual for bedtime for my 7 and almost 6 yr old to be close to 8:30. However, during the school yr, its usually 7:30-8pm. Unfortunately, the toddler kind of benefits from his brothers' later bedtime, when my older two were little, their bedtime was 7pm, but DS3 has been getting away with getting a similar bedtime to DS1 and DS2.

[Moneypenny]

DD is almost 7 and is bed by 7:30-7:45 each night. She's one of those people who wakes up around 5:30 every morning no matter what, so she needs to be in bed fairly early in order to avoid the crankies.

[cono0507]

9 in the summer, 8 during the school year.

[jse107]

Between 9-9:30pm. Yes, it's late. We've tried backing it up and haven't been super-successful.

[MommyAllison]

9pm in the summer, 8:30 during the school year. DD is a total night owl though, and usually stays up looking at books after that because she can't fall asleep. We're starting school next week and I'll be waking her at 8am every day, so I'm curious to see if she starts falling asleep earlier at night.

[sarahsthreads]

During the school year we aim for in bed at 8:00, though she's usually up reading much later than that. (She won't sleep without lights on, and if there are lights on she reads. She comes by this honestly - I used to close myself in my walk-in closet and read until the wee hours when I was her age, so as long as she remains not too difficult to get up in the mornings I'm choosing not to fight this battle.)

This summer, we've been trying to have her in bed by 9:00, but it's generally a battle to get her through all the usual stalling tactics by then. I only care because we don't get to watch Dr. Who until after she's in her room for the night. LOL! But in a couple of weeks we'll have to shift back to an earlier bedtime, or we won't survive school mornings...

Sarah :)

[Melanie]

Dd id almost 6 and 7:30 is our goal, though that slips during the summer.

[niccig]

Another 8:00 lights out here. This applies to school nights as we may stretch to even 9:00 during the summer or special occasions on the weekend.

This is us too.

[ThreeofUs]

I wish. My 6 yo goes to sleep at about 8:30. My 2, almost 3, yo goes to sleep at about 10. If I'm lucky. OYOYOY