What time does your pre-schooler go to bed?

[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.

[Olive]

DD is 4 and goes to bed at 7pm everynight, no day sleeps and stays in bed until her clock changes to 7am, she is usually woken but DD1 between 6-6.30, but can sleeps til 7am

[Beach Mama]

Sorry to hijack for a sec hun, Olive - does DD have a normal clock that you have taught her to read or is it a special one?

[BekZ]

DD1 has just turned 5 and it is technically lights out at 8pm, but she doesn't go to sleep until closer to 8.30. She wakes anywhere from 6.15 to 7.30am. DD2 is almost 3 and has just dropped her day sleep she is now very ready for bed by 8pm and her wake up time is the same as DD1. DD3 is 16 months and goes down around 8.45 and is up around 6/6.30

[Snacks]

till 10pm? It does my head in!

LOL! Didn't catch that part. I read your post as she went to bed at 7-7:30 then slept til 7ish, 8-9ish on occasions. Nope, if she was still bouncing around me at 10pm she'd be putting herself to bed as I'd already be asleep

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

Gees, what's your secret? My friend's kid is like this too. She goes to bed at 7 even if she's had a day sleep!

Olive, I like the clock idea too...

[Olive]

tan she has a nromal alarm clock with a bigger display, to start with we blocked off the minute numbers and told her she could get up when she sees the number 7, but recently we uncovered the whole display so she can read it all, works reallllllllly well!