We shoot for an 8pm bed time for our 3 and 4 year old and it's usually between 8-830 on school nights. I wake them up around 630-650 and they are NOT usually easy to get going.
I've been home this week with them and they've been going to sleep at regular time but sleeping in until 8-830. It's been glorious, but I am also feeling guilty I have to wake them up so early now!
clementine / 778 posts
DS is almost 3.5 and goes to bed at 7:30 and gets up around 7 during the week (sometimes he sleeps in on the weekends). He still naps for at least two hours everyday.
honeydew / 7235 posts
My 4.5 year old goes to bed between 8:30 & 9 and wakes up on his own around 6:30. He occasionally still naps too, but we only let him sleep an hour.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
30 month old. During the week he's up at 7am and bedtime starts at 730pm but he's been stalling lately so I don't usually get out of there until closer to 8pm. He naps 90 minutes to 2 hours at school because they put the kids down at 12pm and he's not quite tired enough by then.
Weekends he's usually down by 730-8pm, we get him at 730am, and he takes like 3 hour naps from 1-4pm.
apricot / 322 posts
My 3 year old dropped his naps in the summer of last year. He goes to bed between 8-8:30 and sleeps until 6:30-7 (he sleeps with us). It's a far cry from his infancy time!
papaya / 10560 posts
Mine haven't napped with me in about 2 years! They do nap at school though. I'm starting to wonder if I should back bedtime up to 730, but it is so hard to get everything in--we don't even usually get home until 530-6!
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
My 3 year old sleeps 8:30pm-7:30/8am and naps for 1-1.5 hours in the afternoon. When he goes to preschool (3 days/week), he has to be up by 7:30, but sometimes on non-school days, he'll sleep until 8:30
pomelo / 5573 posts
B turned 3 in January. He still naps, but I think we're on borrowed time - it takes him longer and longer to fall asleep. He usually gets 60-90 minutes in, though. He goes to bed at 7:30, and we have to wake him up at 6 and he's usually terribly grumpy about it. It makes me feel terrible.
cantaloupe / 6086 posts
Once my 5yo dropped her nap at 3.5 she started sleeping (or I should say staying in her room at least) from 7:15ish to 7. I think she usually sleeps a bit less than that but it also gives her time to wake up slowly. First we did ok to wake clock until she could read a digital clock. I'm going to have to start waking her up next year for kinder but hopefully it will be ok by then to get up a bit earlier. Same bedtime I think.
grapefruit / 4085 posts
My 4 year old is in bed between 6:30/7 and is up around the same time, so she gets a good 12 hours.
cantaloupe / 6017 posts
Almost 4 year old doesn't napped, hasn't consistently napped in a year. She goes to bed at around 6:30 and sleeps until 6:15. Sometimes she goes to bed at 6:00 if she's really tired. Once In awhile she sleeps in a little.
persimmon / 1445 posts
DD goes to bed at 830 and wakes up between 645-730 every day. Sometimes she naps for 2 hours and sometimes not, but she doesn't fall asleep earlier or sleep in when she skips.
persimmon / 1467 posts
My just turned 3 year old goes to bed between 6:30 and 7 pm. He wakes up before 7 am, I think around 6:30, some days as early as 5, but stays in his room till 7.
He stays in his room for a two hour nap but often plays for at least 30 mins of it.
I suspect that he is awake for a while on some nights before going to sleep but he stays quiet so we can't be sure. I teach out of our home so later bedtimes are not an option right now.
honeydew / 7444 posts
DD is turning 5 next month. She is asleep between 8 and 8:30 and her sleep is all overt place. Last week she was getting up at 6-6:30am but after daylight saving she has been sleeping in until 7:30...and waking up very reluctantly!
pomegranate / 3768 posts
DD is 4 and goes to bed between 7:30-8 and I wake her up at 7 for school. On weekends she stays up later and sleeps in later.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
3.5 yo, bed at 7:30 and up at 7. She isn't napping often anymore. Unfortunatly, I think that your kids naturally getting almost 12 hr sleep shows you that they want more than the 10.5 hr they are getting normally.
grapefruit / 4455 posts
My four year old goes in her room to bed with her younger sibling at 7 (really 7-730 but the past week we've been going by 715) but she doesn't usually fall asleep for awhile. She's usually up by 7 the next morning. No naps. I'm thinking I might let her stay up later on the weekends, but I think anything after around 8 and she does sleep longer the next day. I think the latest she's slept in has been 8 recently.
papaya / 10560 posts
@Grace: I agree, BUT they do get a 1.5 hour nap at school! I might ask their teachers if we can try and forego naps so I can get them to bed earlier. It will be tough but I'm trying to think ahead--I'm due with a 3rd in late September and need them to be up and at 'em!
eggplant / 11716 posts
My 3.5 year old goes to bed at 8 and wakes at 6, and still naps for 1-2 hours (1 hour at school, 2 hours on weekends at home). But since the time change, we have struggled to get her to sleep...tonight was 8:45. Hope she adjusts soon....she's also been sleeping till 7, so it's not all bad. But we are up early for work anyway, so we'd prefer she was asleep earlier.
nectarine / 2973 posts
My 4 year old goes to bed between 6-6:30pm and is up at 7:25am for school. She's always had high sleep needs and doesn't nap.
nectarine / 2217 posts
The 3.5 and almost 5 year olds sleep from 7:30PM-6:30/7AM. They don't nap anymore, though!
grapefruit / 4291 posts
We aim to start reading the bedtime stories at 1900 but it's usually closer to 1930 (especially during summer!). Most nights my big girl (4) is asleep by 2000 and her brother (2) is asleep by 2030. They both wake between 0630 and 0730.
nectarine / 2152 posts
3.5 year old twins go to bed at 7 pm on the dot (no nap) and sleep until between 6:15-6:45 am. Daughter sleeps straight through, my son often get ups once or twice for water, hugs, blankets, etc.
pomegranate / 3601 posts
My nearly 4 year old goes to sleep at around 7:30pm normally. This last week even earlier but it also means he wakes that 30 minutes earlier. Normal wake up is 6:45/7am.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
@matador84: Well that's true. Plus, they probably didn't nap with you. So maybe they do get enough.
pomelo / 5791 posts
My 4 year old goes to bed around 8:15. If it's a school day, I get him up around 7:15. If not, I let him sleep in....and he usually will sleep till 8:30 or so. He doesn't take a nap.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
At 4 and 5.5 they both need around 11 hours a night give or take. We aim for 7 bedtime. The younger does best with a nap about once a week.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
We just got an ok to wake clock so I feel like our sleep has been AMAZING this week. Bed is between 730 and 8 and her clock lights up at 545 am. Nearly a full hour later than she was trying to get up regardless of bedtime or naps during the day
pomegranate / 3858 posts
My 4yo is asleep between 7 and 7:30 and is up early (usually 6ish, sometimes before), but she reads or plays in her room till we come get her.
nectarine / 2951 posts
My 3.5 year old goes to bed @8:30 and wakes @6. He takes a 2 hour nap still.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
My son has had a 7:30 bedtime for his entire life. Just before he turned 4, he had dropped his afternoon nap and was sleeping 11 hours overnight. Standard wakeup time is the same every day, 6:30.
honeydew / 7917 posts
LO1 is almost 6 and LO2 is 3. They are in bed by 8 and asleep by 9. Both wake up around 6:30 a 7. LO2 takes an hour nap around noon.
persimmon / 1427 posts
My LOs are also 3 & 5. Bedtime is 7:30, they get up at 6:45. LO1 doesn't nap at school, but will occasionally on the weekend. LO2 naps 1.5 hours at school fairly consistently, but has occasionally not napped (but still has quiet time).
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