My nearly nine year old has to go and lay down when the littler kids go to bed at 6.30pm (mean aren't I?) She draws or does her reader, reads a book, watches a movie....whatever I don't mind, but it makes it easier to put the others to bed if they all go together. I'm on my own all the time and she gets it, so it's just easier for us. She doesn't go to sleep until 8:30-9. I don't check, but her light is always out by then.