Bedtimes

[sherrardk]

What time do you think is reasonable for a 10 year to go to bed?

[sophie_1003]

Children of 10 need between 9 and 10 hours sleep so depends on what time they're getting up I suppose!

[sophie_1003]

Sorry, amend that infor is more like between 10 and 12 hours a night!

[ELVIS68]

8.30 - 9.0 pm is a reasonable time

[lilacben]

My grandchildren go to bed at 7.00 to 7.30 for 3 year old,8 and nearly 10 year old.and my other daughter send hers to bed 7.00 but they can read for a while they are 4,7 and nearly 10.

[lilacben]

I should have also said they are up at 7 each morning.

[sherrardk]

Thanks for your answers - wanted to check I wasn't being a meanie (my 10 year old goes to bed at 9.15 - that's lights off).

[sophie_1003]

I would say that's quite late, definitely not being a meanie!

[sherrardk]

We don't get up till 7.45 (and he is awake by then) - we don't hang around in the morning!

[sophie_1003]

Ooh you must be quick getting ready!

[sherrardk]

We've got 5 children and they are all dressed and ready to go by 8.30 - we are very organised in the morning, but it's not rushed or hassled. We just have a routine that everyone sticks to. (If I have to do the mornings by myself we get up a little earlier and I do the packed lunches the night before.)

[sophie_1003]

You'll have to tell me your secret, lateness is my worse trait!

[ELVIS68]

My 12yr old is always in bed by midnight on weekdays and 3am weekends

[sherrardk]

I can't abide being late - I would hate to be late picking the kids up from school/nursery or for them to be late getting there (fingers crossed, it hasn't happened yet).

[sophie_1003]

I know that people really hate lateness so really need to stop but I have a very nasty habit of leaving everything to the last minute!

[sherrardk]

I used to teach so I had to be in certain classrooms by certain times (or the pupils would start creating havoc) so I think I have just brought that into my 'real' life. (My youngest children are 2 year old twins so I have to be super-organised.)

[sophie_1003]

Haha, I'm going into teaching too, primary though so get to stay in one room, and to be fair am always on time when I'm on placements, it's social occasions I find difficult!

[ummmm]

My youngest, 11, goes at 9.30. My eldest, nearly 14, goes at 10.

[sherrardk]

My husband was primary deputy head and he's pants when it comes to being on time - maybe there's a pattern?

Hi Ummm - mine seems to be ok at 9.15 - just wanted to see if I was being mean really. The middle 2 are 8 o'clock and the little ones (just can't bring myself to call them 'The Twins') are also asleep by 8 but then they are only 2.

[sophie_1003]

Ahh, maybe! It drives my boyfriend mad, I'll say I'll be at his house for say 7 then won't get there till half past, he says "Why don't you just say half 7??" but if I did I wouldn't get there till 8!

[zzxxee]

my youngest is now 13 and is in bed at 10
for a ten year old i would say 8.30