What time does your almost 4 yr old go to bed?

kjr · June 2010

My son will be 4 in August. He was going to bed at 7ish most nights, sometimes even 6:15 - 6:30.
He gets up very early, no matter how late he stays up. If he hears me get up for work at 5 in the morning, he gets up, too. If he doesn't hear me, he sleeps til about 6.
He won't nap during the day. It's like he's the energizer bunny... he just won't stop! lol

Lately when I put him to bed he gets up and goes into the playroom and plays for a while and then puts himself back to bed. One night I found him asleep on the playroom floor. If I hear him I go and put him back to bed. But he usually tries to sneak back out of his room.
The other night he came downstairs at like 9:30. I am just so frustrated. He always says he just isn't tired.

Any advice???

DandelionMom · June 2010

Gracie goes to bed between 7 and 7:30. I'll sometimes hear her singing to herself for a few minutes (sometimes up to half hour or so) but she rarely gets out of bed. If he isn't tired or grumpy, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Maybe try to step up the exercise?

JOEBunny · June 2010

I have the girl version of your boy! DD is napping right now for the first time in maybe a month. She fell asleep watching a cartoon, which she gets to do to keep her quiet while I put her brother down for his nap.

We just switched her bedtime to 8:00 from 7:00 because she was getting up at 6:00, which did not work for the other 3 people in our family. It took a good week to get her to go to 6:45 or so, she doesn't quite make it until until 7, but is much closer.

katie277s · June 2010

DS goes to bed at 8PM and has for a few years now (he'll be 5 in August). The only time he ever goes to bed before that is if we need to get up really early the next morning or asks to go to bed earlier.

On weekends, he'll sleep until 8ish, and I wake him around 7:15 on weekdays.

xbrooklyngrl · June 2010

B goes to bed at 10pm. I think she's been going to bed at 10pm for about 2 yrs now and as hard as I try, it rarely happens any earlier. We always find something to do. Lucky for her she doesn't wake up until 8ish.

tmp-726880625006534 · June 2010

My DD goes to bed around 8PM. We usually start bath about 7:30, she's in her bed by 8, we read and then she usually talks or sings to her dolls for another half hour or 45 minutes. She sometime is up later on the wekeends. She gets up at 6:30AM every day.

mlm1128 · June 2010

DD has gotten much better. She used to be up until 11 no matter what we tried. Lately she will tell me she's tired between 8:30 and 9:30. I think it's all the time we spend outside.

But if she takes a nap all bets are off.

hikerbeth · June 2010

DD goes to bed around 8. It's been like this as long as I can remember. Sometimes she stays up for a little while and reads. She isn't allowed to come out of her room 'til 7 (she has a clock), but I'm pretty sure she gets up a little earlier than that. She was a before-6 am riser for a long tiime so that's why I ended up putting the clock in her room once she could read numbers.

She hasn't napped regularly since before she was 2.

I really don't care when she falls asleep, but for my sanity, bedtime is 8 pm. She's pretty self-regulating so she'll go right to sleep if she needs it.

kjr · June 2010

I guess my problem is that I like to go to bed at 9! lol

I am so used to it. And when I was little 9 was the absolute latest we could be up, so I feel like he should be in bed before then, too!

Heidisean · June 2010

dd goes to bed at 8 PM and will sleep until 8 AM. She stopped napping at 2 years old and has been going to bed for the past 2 years since she was 2 years old (for 2 years now).

docmay25 · June 2010

My dc's both are in bed by 8:00. DS is 5 and Dd is almost 4. My DD is impossible at bedtime. She can not fall asleep. Because she has such a hard time falling asleep, she gets up with every excuse, tries to play games, runs around etc.

Just recently we have been giving her books at bedtime. We give ds 2 books too. They have a flashlight and the deal is that they can look at the books until they get tired. When they are ready to go to sleep the y need to put the books down and go to sleep. They get to do this as long as they stay in their bed. It has worked so far. They both look at books until they fall asleep.

Yodajo · June 2010

Sam goes to bed at 9 usually. He still naps and that is why his bedtime is pushed back so late. Both boys sleep in and nap the same amount of time in the afternoon, so I am reluctant to mess with it since I really enjoy the break. I figure he'll probably stop the naps in the fall and we'll move his bedtime up then.

true_norskie · June 2010

DD goes to bed about 8:30 and gets up 6:30/7--wakeup time never changes no matter what time she goes to bed. She technically isn't allowed to come out (unless she has to go potty, of course) until 7--but she'll feed us the BS that she saw a 7 on her clock (like it was 6:37) so she came out. She knows it has to be the first number...

Anyway, that clock thing does work a majority of the time. She still naps about an hour every day.

Angela814 · June 2010

Annalise goes to bed at 9:30 on a good night. Most nights it's closer to 10-10:30. She gets up between 7-8am and usually takes a 2 hour nap at daycare.

butterbeansmama · June 2010

Preston goes to bed between 8:30-9:00 during the summer months (but he does still nap for 2.5 hours everyday). He gets up around 7:30-8:00.

During the winter months (school year), he goes to bed no later than 8:30.

peekaboo716 · June 2010

DS goes to bed at 7:45. He usually goofs around (needing to go potty, drink of water, to give the dog a hug, whatever) for about 30 minutes. He is up at 6:30. He sometimes naps at daycare for up to an hour, but usually not.

Last night, though, he was up until 9:15!

VTSKIBUM · June 2010

DD will be 4 in 2 weeks. She typically is in bed 7:30-8pm depending on what has gone on that day & how tired she is. She generally sleeps until 6-6:30am (sometimes later). She has to be up no later thatn 6:30 during the week. She hasn't napped in about a year unless she doesn't feel good or is just absolutely exhausted during the day.

jlw2505 · June 2010

My DD will be 4 on Wednesday. Her bedtime is between 7 and 8 generally. We bought the special clock "Teach Me Time" from Amazone about 6-9 months ago and it really helps (not at night but with wake-up). Our routine is that she is completly ready for bed by around 7 and we ready her a story or 2 (her little sis goes to sleep right at 7) and then she can read to herself for another 20 mins or so - we have her lights out between 7:20 and 7:30. She sometimes goes right to sleep and some nights, is awake as late as 9. She stays in her room, in her bed and plays with dolls or whatever in the adrk or semi darkness now that it stays light out so late. She knows she can get up to go potty or if she needs water but she still sometimes calls us. When she gets up, she gets right back into bed although we sometimes go down to hurry her up. In the morning, she knows she can't leave her room other than to go potty until her clock turns green. It works wonders and I have found her a few times awake with her light on and reading.

Forgot to add - she wakes up at 6:15 during the week due to daycare and at 7 on the weekends and if she naps, its about an hour (we don't allow more than that at daycare) and at most on weekends it will be an hour and a half but the naps are getting less and less which is fine as she still has quiet time every time which gets her what she needs.

CubbyMama · June 2010

K had been going to bed around 8-8:30, but that has crept closer and closer to 9pm now that it's still light out at 8! She sleeps until 6:30-7:30 and then usually crawls into bed with me/us for another half hour to an hour.

wildflower88 · June 2010

DD will usually go to sleep around 9:030-10pm. We usually lay in bed for awhile and watch a little tv and she will fall asleep sometime in that time frame.

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