When did you stop tucking your kids in at night?

Scarlett1

My dd is 7 and she goes up stairs and has a toilet and cleans her teeth then jumps in bed then calls me up and I go and give her a kiss and a cuddle and say goodnight, I don't think that you can really put an age on something like this but rather down to the child itself when they feel they can go to bed themselves and dont need tucking in anymore

TITEASCRAMP

DD is 7. She can take herself to bed. But I go up with her. She mostly goes up to bed about 45 -1hr before lights off. She does teeth and pyjamas then I spend half an hour -ish reading to her or sometimes we just chat. Then I go down and she reads to herself for a bit.
Then I go back up turn off the light, kiss her, tell her how much I love her and go down.

Kazzajr

My ds is 5 and I take him up to bed tuck him in and read to him for about 15-30 minutes (sometimes he gets fed up and wants rid of me sooner) I then put on a video for him and he watches this and falls asleep (I know some people don't agree with this but it works for us). I check in on him a few times before I go to bed.

I will continue reading to him/tucking him in until he gets fed up with it and asks me to stop but I think I will still check on him regularly.

doraexplorer

i have a boy 8 and a girl 3 and i still tuck them in at night, they both get a story i read to one and dad reads to the other. its nice.

i still go in to kiss them both at night and tuck them in when they are sleeping when i go to bed. its one of the best feelings and they look so angelic when they are sleeping, compared to the fighting we have during some days. i will do this for ever i hope . its one of the nicest things about being a mum.

x

Baybee1984

I do think its upto the child when theyre ready to go to bed by themselves.. My little boy is 4 and still has the same routine hes always had
Bathtime, kisses from daddy before he goes off to work, then storytime with mummy, kisses and lights off..

izoomzoom

My boys are 9 and 6, and they take themselves off to bed. Its a constant checklist of teeth, toilet, into bed and although I don't see them up, I invaribly check up on them before they have gone off to sleep. They both like to read their own books in bed. 6yo and 9yo both go up at 7:30 for teeth / toilet but 9yo is allowed to come back downstairs for 30 mins as his bedtime is at 8pm.

I am terrible in that I have hardly read bedtime stories to them. We do read at other times, and we do have a 6m DD in the equation now too.

galvanizersbaby

amandada wrote: »

My daughter is almost 11 and is a complete bookworm, so reads to herself at night, and has done since the moment she could read independently when she was 5.
My son, however is 6 and still likes his bedtime story, even though he's a good independent reader, so will get his story for as long as he wants it.

OMG - could you daughter honestly read independently at the age of 5?!
and your son a good independent reader at 6?
I'm now worried about my 5 year old reception class son - he recognises a few words they've been learning but I would no way say he was an 'independent reader' - Yikes :eek:

Surfbabe

I read to mine right up till the age of about 11 - I used to sit on the landing between their rooms and we would read a chapter a night of things like Alice in Wonderland, Through the looking glass, or any other older books that took there fancy.

Even now they are 19 and nearly 17 I still go in every night to say goodnight, give them a kiss and tell them I love them. Was strange when DS went off to Uni though !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

memorygirl

Erm!

Mum came to tuck me in last night ................ and I'm 38 3/4 ...................
............. and I was feeding her second grandchild at the time.

I guess I'll always be her baby - LOL

Memorygirl

claire1234

i have 2 step-kids and at the age of 12 & 13 (g & b) my fellas was still going up tucking them in / talking to them etc which i though was late or time to start getting them to go on there own,
so we began to start asking them to go up on there own brush their teeth etc and get into there beds, they have tv`s games consoles & stuff then i suggested to my fella to leave it for 45mins then go and say goodnight, this ended up in tears and tamtums as they were not use to been told what to do, so i think it was best to encourage it when younger about 9 or 10.
i tried to encourage all sitting around the table at tea and slowly eating so this was our catch up/chat time instead of late at night.