Quick question

[waverly]

If you have a 7 year old or around that age, what time do they go to bed? DS gets up at 7. I have been starting bedtime at 7:30. He stays up until 9 or 10 reading until I threaten him to stop reading and go to sleep. I am wondering if I should push his bedtime back to 8 or 8:30 and keep DD's at 7:30. DD is 4.

[k3am]

I don't have a 7 year old, but if he's willing to quietly read in his room until 8:30/9 I'd be cool with it. Especially if it got me a couple hours of downtime...

[mae0111]

My DD1 just turned 8. She is in bed every night at 730-745, then lights out by 745-8. She gets up at 7-715, and it's a battle every day. She needs a ton of sleep. So maybe another 8 year old would be fine with an 830 bedtime.

DD2 is 4.5, and she goes to bed at the same time. She needs less sleep. She is usually up on her own by 645-700.

[supertrooper1]

Does he appear to be getting enough sleep or do you have to drag him out of bed in the morning? If he's enjoying reading and not too tired staying up late, then I wouldn't change anything.

[waverly]

He seems fine with his sleep. Today I sent them both up at 8 because we were playing a game that went long.

He is fine with reading in his room also. DD is the one that is hard to get up in the morning.

[campermom]

My 6 and 8 year old get up at 6:15.
Lights go out at 8, for now. My son (8) is an avid reader and will sneak his light back on, but if he stays up he is tired the next morning. He loves reading so much that it gets him moving at 7 pm to get ready for bed so he has reading time.

[akafred]

DD sleeps 8 to 7:30 every night. She is 8. Occasionally she wakes before 7 or after 8 but 7:30 is typical. We start bedtime at 7:15 but she is usually asleep at 8 or 8:15. However most people I know who work have kids who wake MUCH earlier than 7:30. Like 6 or 6:30.

[wildfloweragain]

In general, she goes to bed at 7:30. Lights are out for all kids at 9 and she is usually already fast asleep.

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[sunbutter]

DS is nine and DD is five. 8pm has been our targeted bed time for about 4 years. They wake between 6:30 to 7:30 on weekends and by 7 on weekdays. DS will sneak a flash light into his bed to read but they choose to both sleep in the same bedroom so he is good about not keeping his little sister awake. He will hide under his blankets with the book and light.

[sweetptater]

DS will be 7 in 3 weeks. He usually goes upstairs around 7:50-8:00 and we read for a bit, him to me, then I read a couple of chapters to him. He's asleep by 8:30 most nights. I wake him up at 6:15. If he wanted to stay up and read to himself until 9, I'd have no problem with it. He seems to be fine getting up in the morning.

[justcheckingin73]

It depends on what we have going on but my 7 year old usually goes up to bed around 8 and then we read and ideally he’s close to sleeping by 8:30/8:45. He gets up anytime between 6:30 and 7 am. I miss the days of him going to be at 7:30 but with our schedules, it doesn’t work out. Plus, I don’t think he’d go to sleep that quickly.

[leap]

DD1 is almost 8. Most nights she is in bed by 8:00-8:15. I will let her read until 8:30 and then lights out. She has a tendency to wake up early on her own (about 6:00) so I don't want her to stay up any later reading. I want to make sure she's getting enough sleep.

[186momx]

DD is 6 and bedtime is between 7-7:30 and I have to drag her butt out of bed at 7am. With this bedtime she prefers to wake between 7:30-7:45 but that doesn't work when we need to leave by 7:15. Most people here think I am insane for making her go to bed so early.

If he is getting up and not cranky or tired I would leave it and just let him read quietly until X.

[2chatter]

This is super kid specific to me. My oldest doesn't need as much sleep as the other two. And middle needs the most. So the ten year old I will move mountains to get her asleep by 8. The five year old can flex a little more as a one off and can hang until 10 when we have friends over etc with no consequences.

So figure out the sweet spot and then enforce it. My middle isn't allowed to read in pajamas. It helps draw the line between reading and sleeping. The books go away and the pajamas go on and no more books.

[mustardseed2007]

This was me when I was his age. I loved staying up late to read. My parents let me do it....I don't know if this is a plug for letting him stay up or not. I'm pretty weird. I still love reading though.

And with my kids, DS (5) really needs to go to sleep super early, DD (3) works fine on less sleep. If I could make DS go to bed before the 3 year old, that would actually be the right mix for their actual needs, but his sense of justice would be offended.

[2chatter]

mustardseed2007 - plow through his justice! He has the right instinct but the real fact is that first to bed is what benefits him the most - DD used to get more wound up about this but the older she gets the more she agrees that she needs to sleep. Worth the sanity!

[legomyago]

My 7 yo's bedtime is 8:30, she gets up about 7-7:15. She's not one to need a ton of sleep though.

[Covergirl82]

My DS is 8 and DD is 6.5. We do lights out for both of them at 8:30 (DS falls asleep right away, DD usually takes until around 9, sometimes later to actually fall asleep) and they get up at 6:30 M-Th. DD doesn't seem to want to sleep as much as DS, although DS has been waking up between 6:30-7:00 now even on weekends, and before he turned 8, he would typically sleep until at least 7:00, sometimes a little later.

[jlaok]

My DS is 7:00 and bedtime is 8:00. We will sometimes let him read in bed until 8:30. He is a morning person/early riser so a later DD is 4 and her bedtime is also 8:00. They wake up around 6:45 for school in the morning.