4 and 2 year old bed time?

[Liz]

hmm... DS is 3, I guess bed time is around 7.30 where possible.. we're often doing something in the evenings, or DH gets home later than usual, so sometimes it's later. He's usually up at around 6am. He comes into our bed then, and actually went back to sleep this morning, yay! He still has a day sleep over lunch time, except for when he's at preschool. So he can go without, but he usually has to catch up after 2 days at preschool (as in.. will have a 3hr day sleep the next day to catch up!)

DD is nearly 1.5. No bed time.. just whenever she is tired. She still wakes a lot through the night, but is generally up for the day around 6ish too. But she'll go back down for a sleep not long after breakfast.

DS started sleeping through around 2.5yo and it was then that we could start using a bedtime. Otherwise it was just when he was tired too.

[Danni]

wow im a black duck here!

we aim for Ds goes to bed around 830 but some nights its as late as 10 (like last night). It depends on his afternoon sleep or not.

Dh gets home from work late, so i would hate him not to see Mason when he comes home.

If i put him to bed at 7, he would be awake too early!

[krisp]

My DD (17 months) goes to bed at 7.15-7.30 and my 3y.o DS at 8 pmish. They both still have 1.5-2hrs sleep during the day (at around 12.30ish) and are up at about 6am in the morning.

[Charlyfrog]

We do teeth/prayer/songs with both girls and then I put DD#2 (22months) to bed at approx 7pm (again, earlier if a big day or later if we've been out of course). She still has a 1 - 1&1/2 hour nap in the arvo but I always make sure she's up by 3pm otherwise bedtime goes waayyyyeeeee later

My 4 & a bit year old will sit in bed and read while I'm putting her sister to bed and DH & I will read to her then let her 'read' to herself for a couple of minutes. Lights are generally out by 7.20 as, this is very funny, she comes out to us and says, "I'm tired now" so we go in, tuck her in and off she goes into the land of nod, lol Sometimes bed is earlier if she's had a big day.....or if she falls asleep while reading, hehe. Ah too cute!

[MantaRay]

Both the boys usually go down around 7:30, which mostly, particularly on day care/kindy days is not long after dinner. Sometimes it varies - if we eat early the 2yo will go usually go down earlier, and on the rare occassions that DS1 has a day sleep he usually goes down later, maybe 8pm or even 8:30pm on occassion.

[mbear]

All mine 7:15pm....(5,3,1 yrs). 7:30pm at the latest.

#2 and #3 still have day naps - 2hrs. Always make sure they are up by 330pm....

I usually hear giggling and talking around 7am......

[kawazuki]

my DD goes to bed at 7:30 8 pm and gets up at 7:30 8 pm
my DS on teh otherhand goes to bed at 8:30 is asleep by 9:30 and up at 6-7am

so it is different for each kid but works for us. going to be fun trying to get DD into a normal bed...

[Lulu]

7 - 8pm sleep
7-8am wake up.

They might wake for a wee but straight back to sleep.

it wasn't always like this!