What time does your child go to bed?

We bought black out blinds for Jess' when she was born... even with her going to bed at 7 or 8 or 9pm she still wakes up at the same time around 7am...didn't matter how action packed her day was...EVEN in GLASTONBURY or on Holiday...she wakes up around 7am...some kids are just early risers.

My son is 16 months old. He goes to bed at 6:30 or 7 every night. (Mostly 6:30).
He wakes up, like clockwork, at 6:30 am.
He takes a 2-3 hour nap every day beginning at 10am.

He's a flexible kid, and with some care we can keep him up late. If we are out, if we are at a restaurant longer than expected, if it is a family party, if we are on a flight etc... but no matter WHAT he will wake up at 6:30 am. Even when we travel to and from England - he's just got this weeeeeird body clock that find 6:30 am and sticks to it.

Ethan (nearly 11 months) has a bath around 6.30pm and is in bed by 7.  Most nights he goes to sleep within 10 minutes or so, unless he's teething.  He listens to music on a low volume while he drops off (it used to be a windup music box but that broke so now it's a CD of Moonlight Sonata).  He usually sleeps straight through til 6 or 7 in the morning, 8 if I'm really lucky!  He still has two naps a day - a morning one for an hour or two and early afternoon for about 40 minutes. 

Nicholas, who is 3 1/2, goes to bed 7:30 - 8:00. In the Summer months it's still pretty light outside but thanfully he has a carbed and always wants a sleeping bag over the top to make it a "house". That keeps it fairly darkened. He plays and looks at books for about 15-20 mins then is off to sleep. He usually wakes up 7:00 - 7:30 which is fine as I'm a morning person and like having that time with him.

13 month old-7pm wakes between 7-9am

9 yr old-  9pm up between 7-9am

I like my kids to  be in bed between 7-7:30, when they fall asleep is up to them.

Usually  they get up between 7-7:30, but the past couple of weeks it has been 6-6:30.  Very tired whiny kids that refuse to nap. 

Mine are 3 and 2.

My lord, I must've had really strict parents. I was forced into bed around 7 until I was quite old. Seems as though it's more the norm now to let kids stay up relatively late. Even if I BEGGED to stay up later, my mom said "even if you're not tired, you can like down and rest." I'll never forget that line - I used to hear it sooo much! Of course it could be because her favourite line NOW with regard to me as a little girl is "you were always so good until you got tired." Heehee.

Sorry for jumping into this - I don't have kids, but I still think stuff like this is interesting.... 

My daughter (now 4 and a half) has pretty much always gone to bed around 7 from when she was sleeping regularly until now. Bedtime is now between 7:30 and 8 because of the summer but I expect it to go back to 7/7:30 when school starts. 'Bedtime' now means that if she doesn't immediately go to sleep, she can play in her room until she does. We have blinds and dark curtains to help with the summer sun.

Also, my husband has a very deep, firm voice.  He doesn't give in to antics or game-plyaing.  He usually goes in if she plays up, b/c I am a sucker and he just says, sternly, 'It's time for children to zed.'

I know that was a typo but it was a good one, made me laugh on first reading, thinking your husband enforced the rules with his deep voice in some weird Germanic accent for emphasis!!! Ze Chill-Dren Vill Go to Ze Bed!

I know that was a typo but it was a good one, made me laugh on first reading, thinking your husband enforced the rules with his deep voice in some weird Germanic accent for emphasis!!! Ze Chill-Dren Vill Go to Ze Bed!

No, he actually refers to sleeping as 'getting some zed'.  Instead of 'zzz's'.  Scottish people and their weird colloqualisms  .

Ahhh, gotcha now. Still, it was a funny image.

I don't get home from work until 6:30/7:00 so I try to keep DS up till 8:30.  He's up around 7-7:30 and sometimes on the weekends if it's quiet, he'll let me sleep til 9am, but only if I'm lucky.  We're visiting my parents at the moment, and they got him up and played with him until 9:30.  Sleeping in never felt so good.

  Before the time change they were going to sleep 7:30-8:00 because they were really tired from school. They wake 6:30-7:00 most mornings.
 

Starting school makes a huge difference to sleeping arrangements, because you have to have your children up and ready for a certain time in the morning, and certainly during the first year mine were usually tired and grumpy and ready for bed by 7.00. Especially the middle child, who had been having an hour's afternoon nap until he started school.