What time does your pre-schooler go to bed?

[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!