How many hours sleep for kids ?

Sobraon

7 year old at 8pm. The big problem was the change to "big school" at for the 11 year old - earlier bus, lots of home work and later return in the evening has been hard for him so 9pm. 14 year old doesnt need as much sleep as me!

Savvy_Sue

RCB28 wrote:

Routine works for me...I have to have some time with my husband

It's the grownup time I miss most now they're teens or trying to be. OK they mostly skulk upstairs in the evenings because they don't watch a lot of TV and they certainly don't want to be downstairs in case I remember they're there and ask them to wash up! But I find if I don't yell up the stairs every 5 minutes the 12 year old is still up at gone 10 pm and I think that's too late for him. In fact I yelled so loud the other day I had a sore throat for days and I'm still coughing from it, but NOTHING else seems to work!

Savvy_Sue

Trix wrote:

My nephew has had a TV and DVD in his own room since he was 2 (or maybe younger) and spends most of his time alone in his room watching it. I don't know if he still does but he used to eat all his meals in his room as well while watching films - alone. Yet at night time he still shares a bed with his parents (nearly five years old) and hasn't slept in his own bed since he was born :eek: . He will have a brother in a couple of months so the bed is going to be a bit squashed!

It's so easy sometimes to let children get into bad habits but this one is going to get a very nasty shock, isn't he?! I used to get such strange looks from visiting children when I expected them to sit down at the table for meals, and even drinks and biscuits, rather than in front of the TV (actually we didn't have one at all then!) or wandering all round the house. I still get mad if I find people eating at the computer or dropping crumbs in the lounge.

We don't all always sit down together for meals, especially not teatime because that's just a sandwich, and apart from anything their father's often not in until late and just once in a while it's nice to eat real food with him rather than snack with them. But if I've cooked, they WILL come and sit at table and eat it. Or Else! (Fortunately it's a long time since I had to work out what the Else would be!)

spidystrider

All 3 of my children take after me and don't need much sleep and never seem tired. They are 9, 10 and 14 and on school nights they go to bed at 10 o'clock and usually fall asleep at around 11. The oldest gets up at 7am and the other two get up with me at 8am. At the weekend they don't have a set time but usually go to bed at about 2am and have a lie in the next day. We seem completely different from everyone else but it's always been this way and they are all happy and healthy. I must admit to being a bit of an insomniac, their dad needs his sleep!

Poppy9

Spidystrider

What do they do until 2am in the morning? Also I would miss grown up time - sometimes you just need to get them out of your hair, open a bottle and chill;)

spidystrider

They really don't disturb us much and work their night out quite well. Thay usually all pile into one room with a few snacks and watch a movie. If they can't agree on one movie, they go to their own rooms and watch what they want ( although not the T.V. unless they ask my permission ). Apart form that they play on the computer, Playstation, X-Box etc or listen to music. At the end of the weekend they moan that they haven't had enough time to fit in everything they wanted to do!

Purdy_1

I have 2 sons 11 & 5. They go to sleep around 10pm. Weekends my older son tends to stay up later in his room. I feel totally useless with their bedtime routine, always have done. This is mostly due to my husband being a baker and him going to bed between 7-8pm worknights. If my kids werent asleep before him I'd have a hell of a job to keep them quiet enough so not to wake him. This usually resulted in them staying downstairs until almost dropping off. Even with my kids going to bed late they still get up early. Usually about 7-8am. :eek:

MATH

I have three kidz. After official bedtime each is allowed 30mins winding down time before lights out. None have a tv in their room and the 30mins has to be spent in quiet activity such as reading. Each child is different, I have had to bring foreward my little girls bedtime compared to her older brother at the same age cos she was just too tired and soooooo grumpy.


4yrs old (boy)
Sun-Thu 6pm, Fri - Sat 6:30pm - wakes at 6am.

7yrs old (girl)
Sun - Thu 8pm, Fri - Sat 9-9:30pm - wakes, when woken never before.

9yrs old (boy)
Sun - Thu 9pm, Fri - Sat 9:30-10pm - wakes when woken or 8:30am.

moggins

Sleep, what's that?

We're in the awful position of being one bedroom short so the youngest (3 1/2) is still sharing a room with us. I'm a light sleeper anyway so the slightest cough from her wakes me up.

She woke up screaming from a nightmare at 3am this morning, she was back to sleep within seconds, I was awake for the next 2 hours and suffered a migraine this morning because of it.

The eldest keeps saying she will move out soon, she started saying that 2 years ago (she will be 21 this year)

glenburg1

i wish i was as lucky as you lot!
my kids are 7 and 3 and never seem to need to sleep
both stopped having afternoon sleeps at around 8-9 months.
now they only seem to need around 7 hours a night most.
my 7 year old is top of her class and i never get told she has been tiered at school or grouchy (i only ever get asked where she gets her energy from).
my mum once thought they might just need weraing out as she put it.
so she took both children (then aged 1.5 and 5.5) for a 2 hour walk (and even the little one walked)around a park .
she soon learnt the hard way she was absoulty exhausted by 7pm kids still didnt go of untill about 11.00pm and were up again by 6 am.
my kids do have there own tvs and that but still spend less than an hour a day in there own room.