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We start bedtime routine at 8 (reading books or storytelling), and I usually walk out of the room around 8:30. He's sometimes asleep by 9, and sometimes 9:30. Every once and a while it's close to 10 before he actually passes out. I put him down at 7, then 7:30 until he was around 2.5, but it became obvious he was not ready for bed at that time. I think he really needs a ton of downtime to get sleepy because it doesn't seem to matter how hard he plays that day. That said, he still naps about 2.5 hours, so I'm sure that has some to do with it.

Yeah... shortly after 3 we had to drop the nap, otherwise he wouldn't go to sleep until 10 pm. So now we have no nap and bedtime at 8, up around 7. Every 10 days or so, he does end up falling asleep mid-day and then I know bedtime is going to be late.

Usually around 7:30 or 8. It takes her 10-20 minutes to fall asleep.

@regberadaisy: He's up between 6-7. It just depends on the day. And I can't give you much advice on the leaving the room/screaming thing since we've been lucky that he's not much of a fighter at this point. But I do know that we really have to have a lot of one-on-one time at bed and to snuggle for a bit before leaving, or he has a more difficult time relaxing.
Our routine goes: get in bed together at 8, read 3 books of his choosing, turn off the light and cuddle/sing for about 10 minutes. Then I leave the room. He sometimes fusses or yells "mommy come lay with me," but I just tell him I love him at the door and that its night night time, and then I shut thedoor. This started a few months after 2. Before that, he would go down with 1 book and nothing else, and pass out in 5 minutes every time at 7:30, so it was a big change.

We do exactly what @BananaPancakes: does - at 7:30 we do bath, teeth, water and she gets about 30 minutes of book time, stories (made up stories), snuggles and chit chat. I try to leave her room by 8:30 at the latest. She will call out 1-2x and I will come in and say "good night, go to sleep" and leave before she can engage in conversation. but eventually she will fall asleep by 9pm.

We try to go to the park and do some kind of exercise between dinner time and bedtime, and I found that helps her sleep better at night. She will usually sleep from 9 to 7:30 on those nights. I also want to skip her nap but it's so hard to let go of it.

It sounds like you're putting her to bed too early...especially if it takes an hour to fall asleep!

(LO is a month shy of 3). Usually she falls asleep between 8:30 and 9, tho it's 9:45 tonight and she's going strong. Bedtime is a multi hour process. It sucks. She still naps 1.5-2 hours at daycare, and is up between 6:30-7 most days, occasionally a bit later.

DD1 just turned 3-- she goes to bed around 8-8:30, up for the day between 6 and 7 AM, takes no nap.

I think it's a phase in part. LO is a later 3 (3y8m) and bedtime just recently got better. We start bedtime at 8:00 - bathroom, teeth, pjs and books. I usually leave her room at about 8:30 and she's quiet. She might play a bit in her bed but is generally asleep by 9:00. She's waking between 6:30 and 7:00 most days. She's still napping as well for about 90 minutes. Naps have become shorter but she still needs it.

Hear hear
We went through a rough time like u described for a few months... Until we talked to our pediatrician at well visit. The doc, who used to instruct us to put him to bed at 7-730am, now tell us it is ok to put him down at 8-830p or even 9 pm!! It is becuz they r at the stage where they are almost gonna drop the nap but isn't quite ready yet so they r not tired by 730pm.

Now it is much better... He wakes around 6:45am, naps at school at around 1-3pm , and bedtime between 8-830 pm. He doesn't fight as much as he used to. So I think it is a phase plus later bedtime. On weekends nap is even optional but then u have to make a commitment to put him down earlier. Lo is now 3 years 4 months.

T goes to bed at 8 or 830. Up for the day at 7 or 730. No nap. When he does take a nap (in the car) he's not ready for bed until 9 or 930

Well, we're not having trouble with night time (in bed by 8:30-9 P.M.); but it's what time he wakes up now - 5:30 A.M.! And he refuses to lie back down for a little bit longer. So... and only because we have help and we live in a single floor apartment, I just get him out of bed (he is perfectly able to get off himself, but wants me to go get him anyway!), turn on a light and let him play while I go back to bed. Shortly he wakes up his big brother and they start making a ton of sound by 6 A.M. so I rarely ever get to fully fall asleep. They even come into my room and jump on the bed or ask me to help with this and that. I hope he starts to sleep later soon. I'll take 7 A.M. please!