Bedtime Poll (RE: 8 year-old)

[PollyannaMom]

Poll coming (if I can figure out how to do it).

The question is, what is your "school-year" bedtime for your 8-year-old (3rd grade)?

DS has not been going to bed before 9:00 (and usually later) during our lazy summer routine, and I want some "stats" to console him with when I have to set it earlier next month.


Please see "Take 2" - That one has the actual poll.

 

[kalc12345]

When my daughter was 8 she went to bed at 8pm. Now that she is 10 it has been pushed back to 8:30.

 

[Dizneydaz]

I can't help to much. My DD9 is a night owl. When school started at 8:25 I tried to have her in bed by 9 and asleep by 10 (she's an avid reader). Now that school starts at 7:45 (we are year round and she's already done 1 month of 5th grade) our goal is bed by 8, asleep by 9. Hasn't happened yet, but I'm hopeful!

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Our goal for school night bedtime is in the bed at 8:30, lights out by 9:00. That's a flawed plan considering that dd9 has dance class until 9pm 2 nights a week this year. Our goal on those nights if for her to brush her teeth in the car and sleep in her tights !! We had 1 night like that last year, and usually she was in bed by 9:30.

 

[Crazy4Disney72]

My goal for my DD 9 and DS 12 is in bed by 8:30, asleep by 9:00. They get up at 7:00, so if they really would fall asleep by 9, that's ten hours of sleep. Of course, reality is, with DS not even getting home until 7:30 three nights a week from his after school autism program and DD having soccer practice two nights a week and Girl Scouts one night a week, chances are it's going to be in bed by 9:00 if we're lucky.

 

[Caitsmama]

My 8 yr old (also going to 3rd gr.) rule is in bed by 8:30pm, then can read/play in bed, lights out by 9pm.. and she is a night owl too, so it's hard.. I let her stay up til 10pm now during the summer..
And next week in WDW she will be hitting the parks with my MIL til 1am, while i am snoozing by 11pm in the hotel room LOL .

 

[dougsmom98]

My boys, 8,8 and 10 years old have a 9 pm bedtime. They get up around 7 am. I would love for it to be earlier but with night basketball and baseball games, sometimes it is even later.