Thats it lights out. Whats your kids bedtime, do they have one?

Hi, I do set a bed time for my son because I don't like him to sleep too late at night. SInce my son has started school, I set 10pm is the best time for him to go bed, get ready his milk and change his PJs. When everything is ready, the clock strike almost 10.30pm,then I will off the bedroom light and withing next 15 minutes, we will in our dreamland. Only on weekend,then I will let him play slightly late because there is no school on Sunday. However, my son will still wake up around 7.30am in the morning although there is no class for that day. It has been a habit for him to wakeup early be it he slept late the night before.

Hi Annita, That's insane! My kids got to stay up till 8:30 maybe 9:00. I felt like I was being very fair with them at that. My parents had me in bed by 6pm on school nights and 7pm on weekends and summers. It was horrible. My girls are older. Once they got out of elementary school then I eased up a bit. As long as they got up and made it to school on time then they could stay up a little later and I never said anything.

You are by far strict. My kids are 5,6 and 7. For my children it's jammies by 7 and bed by 7:30pm and their out by 8pm. Then at 7:30 I put my 1 year old to bed. If I put my kids to bed any later then 8pm they will be up at 5am. It's wierd the later the bed time the earlier they are awake. I know a few people who's children dont have bedtimes and they are under the age of 7. I could never do it. I enjoy bed time. It's when I sit back and relax and have 'mommy' time.

Bedtime for my children is typically ten o'clock in the evening. The reason that we have this bedtime for our children is because of the fact that my husband works later in the evening right now and he wants to be able to spend some time with the kids before they go to bed. In addition to that, if I send the kids to bed any earlier, they are up in the morning before the sun is even out and I can't really have that happening.

When I was little, my mom might want me to go to bed early for next day school. I need plenty of rest, otherwise I won't concentrate in class. But when I grow up, the rule is loosen up a lot. So, these rules won't apply to me anymore.

When my daughter was a baby she slept from 9pm till 9am oh the days where I didn't have to see 7 am. Now she is in bed no later than 8:30pm if we keep her up past that she will tell us I am tired I want to go to bed. She is three. For the most part she sleep through the night, just the occasional dream that wakes her up now. Or the falling out of bed when we switched to the twin. I do my best to keep her bed time. The weekends sometimes she stays up till 9pm if we are somewhere but regardless of what time she goes to bed she is up no later than 7am. I have heard horror stories about children that are up all night or wake up several times. I love my daughter and part of the reason she is such a good sleeper is we have always had a bed time routine. I did have a problem and it was me she would want me to stay in her room until she fell asleep well I was in there for almost 2 hours a night I had enough so new rules went into effect One story and you go to bed and mommy leaves. She was fine with it by night three. She is three now and I rarely get woken up in the middle of the night and I have no struggles with bed time. Every child should have a bedtime. We were actually out late on a weeknight and 8pm hit and she crawled on my lap and went to sleep. We were working on buying a new car and the finance guy was like wow when she done that's it. That is great. Nothing get in her way of bed time!

When my kids were really little they were in bed by 7pm. Then when they got into pre-k I would let them stay up until 8pm. But now that they are in 1st grade, I decided to increase thier bedtime to 9pm. At first it was just a trial thing just to see if it would work because it seemed like I was running out of time after school to get karate practice in, homework done, dinner fixed and then still have time for them to take a shower and in bed by 8pm. I didn't want them to lose any sleep, but it has not affected them by staying up the extra hour just so we weren't rushed. Of course I think the karate wears them out enough that they sleep very sound once thier heads hit the pillows.

I let my daughter sleep at nine o'clock or earlier. She can't go beyond 9 o'clock especially that she is already in school and she is required to be in school before 8:00 o'clock in the morning. It is good if a child has a specific time to sleep at night.

We have got our two younger boys into a routine of going to bed aswell as going to sleep,with help from sleep therapists.However with a son with adhd it is no fun as he is hard work to keep him in a routine all the time and at the end of the day it is a fight of wills.So we have a routine as such,but the bed time is always the same time,but i would say the going to sleep is a battle some nights,but in the end we win.

Yes,when my kids are younger and toddler there is a specific time for them to sleep. But now that they are young teenagers ,sometimes they stayed up till 12 midnight doing their homeworks and school projects. But with your nephews and 3 years old ,my,it's not good to see them still wide awake till midnite. have a great weekend

When it's a school night, I really impose on my kids to be in bed between 8:30 to 9:00pm the latest. They have to wake up at about 5:15am to get ready for school -- the school bus picks them up at 6:00am. With this kind of schedule, I want them to get a full 8 hour sleep which is ideal for growing kids. I am lucky that my kids have gotten used to this routine that it's usually them now who tuck themselves in because they feel like dozing off already. Their body clocks are now tweaked to follow this schedule. But on Friday nights and weekends, I am lenient. I let them watch tv shows past 9pm that they don't get to watch during weekdays. But since their body clocks are already used to the schedule, they really feel sleepy already around 9:30pm.

When I was under 3 years old, my bedtime was 7pm. I got screamed at and sometimes hit if I got out of bed after that or if my parents heard me talking to myself or caught me playing with a toy in bed. When I was 12, my bedtime was still only 9pm. One time, my father caught me reading in bed at 9:13, after I was supposed to be asleep, and threw an alarm clock at me. I didn't have to get up for school until 7:30. So, my parents were expecting me to sleep 10 and a half hours and night at the age of 12. More when I was ages 8-11, because my bedtime was earlier. Until I was 18, and started having some shifts at work that didn't end until 10, my bedtime was strictly ten, with harsh punishments for being up a minute later, unless I had a late hockey game that night. I will not be forcing my daughter to go to sleep against her natural rhythms, but neither will I allow her to do stimulating things (television, video games, running around) later in the evening, as this will hype her up so that she doesn't know she's tired. We plan to home school her anyway, so if she's a "night owl" (we both are) she can work around when she wants to sleep.

I have a six-year-old kid and he's in first grade. His school frequently gives homework to do and they have quizzes almost everyday. He goes to school at 6:30am and comes home at 3. Because of his hectic schedule and my schedule too, we need to do his homework and study before I get busy again and he needs to be in bed before 9. I strictly enforce this because he needs to get up at 6 or 5:30 during the weekdays. He is allowed to sleep late during Friday nights and Saturday nights too.

I try to have my kids in bed by 8:00 and lights out by 8:30, but they keep coming back downstairs over and over. I keep taking them back up, but they won't stay upstairs until I go to bed. I've tried everything I can think of, but they are some stubborn kids.