What time does your child go to bed?
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What time does your child go to bed?
| Wed, 09-20-2006 - 9:38pm |
Please give your child's age, what time they go to bed and what time they get up in the morning. Do you feel they are getting enough sleep and if not how you are trying to rectify it? If you have more then one child do you they all go to bed at the same time or is bedtime staggered? Does your child have a routine or do you send them to bed when you feel they are getting tired? Does your child liked to be tucked in?
Thanks ladies you are all so wonderful to answer my questions.
Kelly
Thanks ladies you are all so wonderful to answer my questions.
Kelly

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Emily has an hour long study hall the last hour of the day, where she gets some homework done.
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Rachel is in 5th gr/10 yo & generally goes to bed around 8:30-9pm. She goes to bed later on nights she has basketball practice since that runs until 8:30 but her 7 yo sister goes to bed the same time. Too hard to make Jamie go to bed earlier not to mention she seems to need less sleep.
Rach makes up by sleeping in on the wkends while Jamie still pops up early around 7:30, Rach won't get up until 8:30. I can usually tell when they aren't getting enough sleep because they are combative as well as cranky! Its a horror show IYKWIM. We then rectify by going to bed earlier the next evening. The only routine we have is to brush teeth before bed.
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Since my kids were very little (3ish) we established a routine where they went to their rooms, I have never dictated sleep to them (with exceptions of course, like if there is an early morning event or something).
Jordyn is 11. All weeknights except Wed. she has gymnastics practice til 9:00, so by the time we get home, she gets a shower, she eats dinner, and if there is homework, she gets into bed sometime between 10:00 and 10:30. On Wed. she doesn't have practice, so we try and get her in closer to 9:30. On the weekends, unless there is a competition, we are pretty liberal with bedtimes. Until she stops doing gymnastics, there really isn't anything we can do about practice times.
Her normal routine is shower, dinner, homework, teeth & hair, and then bed. I do tuck her in still most nights, although there are some nights she can't get right to sleep and she'll read for a bit before going to bed. She gets up at 7:10-7:20 each morning just depending on how she's feeling. She also has Saturday morning practice at 8:00 a.m., so Sunday is her only day to sleep in, I usually get her up by 10:00 so she'll still go to bed Sunday nights.
I have a 15 & almost 13 yr old. They've always been 'high-energy' so they've been trained from very early on to go to bed by 8pm (Mom needed the break by then!) Now that they're older they have their lights turned off by 9pm...if they want time to read and unwind they hop into bed earlier. Their sports actvities/practices are right after school and they whiz through their homework pretty quickly so our evenings are pretty much low-key and relaxed. They get up by 6am to catch the bus at 6:45am. There are occasions when my oldest will sneak his gameboy or a book and flashlight into the bed and wow can I tell the difference when I wake him in the morning! As for routines..I probably spend more physically touching time with my daughter, kissing her face to make her 'gross out' and sharing a tickle or two. My son sleeps on a loft bed so I stick my face between the rails for a short conversation and good night. If I spend one minute more with one than the other...they gripe about it! HAHA!!!
Denise
Please give your child's age - She's 11
what time they go to bed and what time they get up in the morning. - She usually gets the lights off sometime between 9:30 and 10:00, no hard and fast rule, sometimes 9:00. She gets up anywhere from 7:00 - 7:30 depending on her mood.
Do you feel they are getting enough sleep and if not how you are trying to rectify it? Sometimes I wonder as she is a bear to get up every morning. She has not woken up spontaneously but a couple of times in the past year. But when I let her sleep on the weekends she still doesn't want to get up. She's not crabby during the day and truly can't fall asleep much sooner. She has trouble going to sleep and has been known to lay there for up to 90 min. unable to fall asleep. So I think she's getting enough but is just not a morning person.
If you have more then one child do you they all go to bed at the same time or is bedtime staggered? n/a
Does your child have a routine or do you send them to bed when you feel they are getting tired? No firm routine but she always have to have a snack before bed, she is supposed to brush her teeth and wash her face, some nights she has a shower and washes her hair, but then she's in bed and either I read to her or her to me and I sit on her bed for a bit and talk.
Does your child liked to be tucked in? Its mandatory. I must cover her up, arrange everything just right, find the cat to go on her bed, give big hugs, kisses, etc. We have problems with her sleeping in her own bed so if I can get her in there (its much better lately) I promise to check on her in 15 min. (or whatever time we negotiate), so I go back and stick my head in to make sure no evil goblins have taken her. :-)
My son is 12, turning 13 next month. He's usually in bed by 9pm and up at 6:20 am. He is not getting enough sleep according the specialists he sees. He should be getting a minimum of 12 hours a night and he's only getting a little over 9. I'm going to try and get him backed up to 8:30 pm for bedtime, but I'm not sure how well that will work. Many times he'll put himself to bed at 8:30 because he's tired, but I don't know how he'll respond to being told he has to be in bed at that hour. On the weekends he gets a solid 12 hours a night no problem.
For the most part he has a routine that he follows and we try to be consistant. He reads before bed each night and is ready for bed by 8 pm every night. (showered, pj's, teeth brushed, clothes pick out for school the next day etc..).
stacy
I must be the "meanest" mom here...lol. I have two left at home and just turned 13 ds goes to bed at 8:30 and that means lights out at 8:30. He is adhd and if we go off the routine there is heck to pay the next day, so we keep 8:30 seven nights a week unless there is a specific activity. What I am saying is I am not so inflexible that if his friends plan a movie, school activity or over at a friends/vice versa on a weekend he can go, but it won't be too late (say past 10 or 10:30). As he is still only 13, the majority of weekend nights he is home safe with us, and if all were doing is just our normal night, I expect him in bed at 8:30 even if it's Satuday and all his other friends are up later (which I always hear)....
My 16 ds has a school night bedtime of 9:30 (we don't allow him out on school nights except for a p/t job 2 nights a week that ends by 8) and weekend bedtime of 10:30 unless he is out with his friends (which at this point is about 60-70% of the time) and I expect him home no later than 10:30 with an exception of 11:00 (if he pleads his case...lol) and expected to go to bed reasonably thereafter.
Especially with 13 ds we keep a routine at night, meaning homework is done before dinner and before tv, game boy, activities etc. Most school nights 13 ds has showered and in PJ's by 7:30 and can wind down before bedtime.
My 16 is different as he works two nights a week and really balances his school work well so all we ask of him is to start getting ready for bed by 9 or 9:15.
Edited 9/27/2006 12:26 pm ET by jenny3kidsmom
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