What time does your pre-schooler go to bed?

[Artechim]

Sounds pretty similar to what we have. DS turned 3 in September. We don't even bother trying to get him to bed before 8pm, it just doesn't work. He goes in there at 8 and has stories until around 8.30pm. He usually wakes around 6am. He stopped having day naps at the start of the year.

I was hoping that starting Kindergarten would make him sleep a bit more but instead he is just cranky all the time lol.

[Snacks]

Thanks girls for the fast feedback.
It seems it's not too way out then.

Are you having trouble with your DD in the late arv/ evenings?

She sometimes gets REALLY silly. Like just totally mental. Particularly after the bath when she's running around like a mad nude woman. LOL! No big deal though. Also she doesn't do as well when we are out when she's tired. She's always much more happy and chilled if she's well rested. I guess that's what prompted my inquiry!

[Lulu]

DD2 is the same. Technically (by the ridiculous shenanigans) she should be in bed by 6.30 but 7-7.30 is bedtime (I can't really make it any earlier) and she is up about 7-7.30.

Sometimes 8-9am wakeup, but only if she has spent hours jumping on her bed acting like a hooligan the night before.

[Snacks]

Ahhh, see I could cope with the ridiculous shenanigans if she then slept for 12+ hours!!! I'd laugh it off then rub my hands together thinking of the break I'd get, LOL!

[Lulu]

till 10pm? It does my head in!

[skybie]

DD1 goes to bed at 730 every night, tired or not.
no day sleeps and sleeps anywhere till 730-9am

[Just Me]

DD1 will be 4 in May - she goes to bed between 7:30 - 8.00pm and usually sleeps until 7.00 - 7.30. She does still have a day sleep, straight after lunch (around 12.30 - 1.00) and will sleep as long as I let her but I wake her after an hour and 15 mins or she won't sleep until 10pm. Today I fell asleep myself and all my kids slept for 3.5 hours because I didn't wake up to wake them - none of them are going to sleep tonight so we are going out to watch a soccer game since they won't sleep anyway.

Day sleeps are great but also problematic at the same time. DD1 starts kindy next year for 5 days a fortnight and she won't get a day sleep but if I don't let her have one, she will fall asleep around 5 (especially if we have to go somewhere in the car) and then won't sleep later, even if I only let her sleep for 15 mins. There are days that she doesn't sleep during nap time - she reads on her bed instead - but I have to be really careful with her for the rest of the afternoon and rearrange the whole afternoon to make sure that she is constantly stimulated and we have an early dinner so she can be in bed by 7pm. On days like today when she sleeps too long during the day, we try and go somewhere in the evening and use up some energy because it beats fighting them to sleep when none of them are tired.

[lilima]

DS was 4 in Sept. He hasn't day slept in years He goes to bed at 7:30 and is usually asleep withink minutes.

If he is at daycare, he has a sleep, then won't go to sleep till about 9:30, but he lies quietly in his room

[Kazbah]

When Pip has a day sleep, he's in bed at 8pmish. Most of the time we can't get him to sleep (but we do "quiet time" from about 3-5pm where he watches teev in a darkened room) and he is in bed at around 7pm. Unfortunately he's still bouncing around until about 7:30 if we let him. And he's waking up around 6:30 - 7:30 which isn't so good, cause he used to wake up around 8:30 - 9:30, and he's really feeling the effects of that need for sleep. About once or twice a week he wakes up around 9am-ish when he's really exhausted.

We are finding that he's waking more and having more broken nights when he's overtired. Vicious circle indeed.