| Author | Message | ||
     shoshannah Citizen Username: Shoshannah Post Number: 792 Registered: 7-2002 |
State age, bedtime (meaning lights out), and whether strictly or loosely enforced. age 8 -- 8:45 -- mostly strictly enforced age 4 -- 8:00 -- loosely enforced | ||
| Earlster Supporter Username: Earlster Post Number: 1025 Registered: 8-2003  |
age 3 -- starting bedtime routine around 7:30 -- loosely enforced. | ||
| Sgt. Pepper Citizen Username: Jjkatz Post Number: 763 Registered: 12-2003  |
age 2 and change -- If she naps, bedtime routine starts around 7:15 or so, in bed by 8. If no nap, routine starts around 6:30, in bed by 7:15, maybe 7:00 if she's really sleepy. | ||
| Meandtheboys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 387 Registered: 12-2004  |
Six and four: in bed, lights out by 8:00. 19-months, just prior to the older two. Strictly enforced, for me as much as them! | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 732 Registered: 2-2003  |
Bed times during the week: 8:00--2 year old 9:00--4 year old (he naps at school unforunately!!) No naps-- 7:00 for both!! | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 1461 Registered: 9-2002 |
Depends on when they get up, doesn't it? My kids are up between 6-6:30am. 7:00 - 2 year old 8:00 - 4 year old Red, do I know you from the y? PL me if you like. | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 3085 Registered: 5-2001  |
when my son still napped (up until age 5) he was up until about 9:30/10:00 every night. Now, no naps, we go upstairs about 8:00 and read until 8:30ish. He wakes up at 7:00 -- so this gives him a good 10 hours of sleep. I think many working parents have a bedtime guilt -- you don't see the kids all day and it feels wrong to get home at night only to put them right to sleep. | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 733 Registered: 2-2003 |
Wendyn, I just tried to PL you, let me know if you got it, you do know me from the Y!! | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 3086 Registered: 5-2001 |
Do I know you from the Y? Probably not, my boy is older. We were in Miss Jean's class last year. | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 735 Registered: 2-2003 |
Algebra, mine are in the Sea Lions and the Rainbowfish. Yours is still in kgtn? | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 3088 Registered: 5-2001 |
Yup. We're in Miss Jenn's kindergarten class. Who are the Rainbowfish teachers? We had Miss Marta and Miss Evelyn and my son loves visiting them still. The other day he was making bracelets for Miss Evelyn's babies -- really small bracelets. It was very cute. | ||
| growler Citizen Username: Growler Post Number: 468 Registered: 11-2001 |
We're in the algebra camp. 2.5 yo. Goes to bed at 9.30 - 10 pm due to a 2-3 hr nap during the day. There is hope for earler however we don't push it. I could not imagine getting home from work and 1-2 hours later putting the little one to bed. For me, it does not give me enough time to catch up, play, paint, chase etc. | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 738 Registered: 2-2003 |
That is so nice! Rainbowfish teachers are Miss Darlene, Miss Janice, Miss Rasheeda, Miss Sagera and Miss Veronica. They are fantastic. So Wendyn, I am dying to know who you are!! | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 3089 Registered: 5-2001 |
Last summer we started the bedtime routine simply because he needed it with no nap. Growler, I felt the same way but what happened is that our 2.5 hours between getting home and him going to sleep became much more pleasant. Prior to that he would be running around and we would be aggrivated and now we have really a nice quality bedtime routine. Everynight I read a few chapters of Magic Treehouse or the hubby reads whatever he's reading, right now it's either Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. | ||
| composerjohn Citizen Username: Composerjohn Post Number: 177 Registered: 8-2004  |
age 2 - between 7pm and 8:30pm, depending on naps during the day. | ||
| growler Citizen Username: Growler Post Number: 469 Registered: 11-2001 |
Don't get me wrong. We have a bedtime routine, it just happens later in the night. We usually read 3-4 small books and she's out. Kids, ya gotta love em. Everyone of them is different. | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 3090 Registered: 5-2001 |
We had no routine -- it was insanity. | ||
| Mark Fuhrman Citizen Username: Mfpark Post Number: 1430 Registered: 9-2001  |
Bedtime Regression Age 22--3 AM after bars close Age 32--1 AM after Carson (then Leno) Age 35--10 PM, 11 PM, 1 AM, 3 AM (after kids born) Age 46--9 PM after napping on the couch  Hate to see what 55 brings. | ||
| Hank Zona Supporter Username: Hankzona Post Number: 2192 Registered: 3-2002 |
Mark, remember when sleep deprivation was something you did to yourself and for fun? My kids are now almost 10 and 8...they are in bed by 900 give or take 15 minutes) the latest on school nights...other nights a bit more leeway depending on if we're out, watching a movie, etc. When they sleep over their grandmother's...all bets are off and we have to re-program them. The best thing we ever did when they were younger, and that was before they both started doing the TV Turn-Off Year at Tuscan, was no TV after dinner. Made sticking to a schedule alot easier...now from Sunday to Friday, it doesnt matter..no TV, no computer. | ||
| Carrie Avery Citizen Username: Carrie33 Post Number: 213 Registered: 1-2005  |
Yes, Hank, good advice.No TV or computer, but then there's the video game the 11 yr old just loves to play "quietly" in his room, until he hears "lights out" My daughter, who is 5, has never been a problem. She is the perfect child in that she will do anything we say. WE got lucky there. The new one, on the way, who knows! |
