What is your 8-9 year old's bedtime?

[Alyantavid]

If they have a regular set bedtime.

People always tell me how early I put my kids to bed, but they need it. So I'm curious what other people do.

[kittywitty]

My 8 yo is in bed by 8 pm and my 9 yo goes to bed between 8-9 most nights.

[SubliminalDarkness]

8:30. He has to be up by 7:30am, but usually DS2 wakes him up sooner than that.

[4evermom]

My 9 yo doesn't have to get up at a set time, but if he did, we'd be making moves toward getting into bed 11 hours before wake up. I think he needs 10 hours of sleep...

[sunnmama]

My 9 yo has a prolonged "bedtime" ritual. She must to be in bed by 9, but usually isn't asleep before 10:30. Going to bed later than 9 pushes sleep even later

She has to be up at 7:45 on school days.

[A&A]

Between 8 and 9 pm. on school nights.

[phathui5]

9:30-10pm, but we homeschool, so we don't have to get him up "on time" for anything.

[TEAK's Mom]

My 8 year old goes to bed around 8:30pm. Since we homeschool, I would be happy to have her stay up later, but she gets up at 5:30am no matter what time she goes to bed (this is SO not my idea). Since she needs the sleep, 8:30 it is. I will be so happy the day this child learns to sleep in.

[eclipse]

Ds will be 10 in January. He is in bed around 8PM, but he's welcome to be im his room/bed doing quiet things like reading, listening to music, drawing, even playing his keyboard with headphones until he's tired. I'd guess he usually is in bed trying to sleep around 9 most nights. I have no idea what time he wakes up. We homeschool and he usually doesn't have to be up at a particular time, but he's always up before me - and I don't sleep in particularly late - usually 7ish.

[Alyantavid]

So we're not out of the norm really.

My 8.5 year old goes to bed at 8 but he usually reads for awhile after I'm done reading to him, so I'd guess he's normally asleep by 9. He does get up (on his own) between 7-7:30.

[hermionesmum]

Lights out by 8pm on school nights, 9pm on Saturday nights; same as for her seven year-old sister. If I didn't have them so close together I might well be leaving it a bit later.
All but Monday nights, (Brownies then choir), she's in bed reading by 7.30.

[MJB]

My 7 3/4 and 4 3/4 yr. olds go to bed at 8:30. They usually fall asleep around 9 and we get up at 7, pretty grumpily to the alarm.

[katiecat]

Lights are out for my 8 year old at 8:15. We do need to leave the house on school mornings at 7:30 but he has always been a very early riser, between 5 and 6am, no matter what time he goes to sleep. I would actually like a bit of a later bedtime for him but then he still wakes by 6 so a later time means he doesn't get enough sleep.

[kittywitty]

I guess I should have specified that those are our "bedtimes" but my kids are allowed a bed lamp on to read/write/whatever quietly in bed for however long. I usually make it lights off by 11pm if I'm up that late and remember.

[4Marmalade]

My almost 8 year old usually gets into bed between 7-7:30pm and reads for about 30 minutes. He wakes early though (5:30-6am) so gets about 10-11 hours of sleep total.

[mamazee]

8.

[meemee]

i try to make it between 8 and 9 pm, but in reality it is 10 - 11.

she too has a prolonged bedtime so she needs to be in bed by 8 or 9 so she can be asleep by 10 or 11. she wakes up at 6:30.

so we have a 'set' bedtime but we dont seem to make it.

however dd is a night owl. before school schedule she wouldnt go to bed till midnight or two am.

[greenemami]

Usually in er room by 7:30, lights out around 9. She reads, writes, etc. and then reads out loud with dad while I put the littles to bed.

[amcal]

My kids don't start school until 11am so, we're pretty lax about bedtime. I try to get them to have their bedtime routine completed by 8:30 and than they're allowed to read until 9:00. More often than not, my 7.5 yo falls asleep and my 8.5 yo gets up and we read together and then she goes to bed when I do at around 10:30.

[seriosa]

My almost 8yo starts his bedtime routine around 9pm, and is usually asleep a little before 10. We wake him at 6.45 am on school days. When he can wake up on his own its usually around 8am. On the one hand that makes me think he could be using an hour more sleep, but its really difficult (difficult for me logistically, but also he is dead set against) putting him to bed even half an hour earlier as we have tried to do. He is not grumpy or "off" the days we wake him early and never lacks energy, so on the other hand perhaps that extra hour is sort of just a flexible zone for him - nice but not essential.