Kids and Bedtime
 

Why is it when you send a child to bed they never go to sleep when they are told to? :rolleyes:

Reece usually goes to bed at 8 and i let him watch tv till 9 (on school nights) i tell him to turn the tv off at 9, so could anyone possibly explain to me why he is still awake?

He does this often, i take his tv off him and he starts messing about with his mobile, i take that off him and he gets up and goes downstairs to get 'something out of the fridge' NOW HE'S REARRANGING HIS BEDROOM :mad::mad:

if you lot in Accy hear a loud BANG in the next few minutes, dont worry about it, it'll be me banging my head against the brickwork


he starts his s.a.t.s on Monday and i'm gonna make sure he'll be in bed for 7, no telly and no mobile, even if i have to strap him to the bed ;) (that was a joke by the way)

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yep..... ty's the same lol

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My 2 are the same, but theres nothing for them to play with in their room :confused: I put them to bed, then an hour later their still up and messing around

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it gets worse, believe me.....he's drawing now :rolleyes:

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The most annoying thing is that they then struggle to get up in the morning!

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lol read what i wrote Ste.....he will be going to bed at SEVEN because he has exams next week lol


and he's 11 not 9 ;)

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ohhhhhh yessss, my alarm goes off at 7.45am, he manages to stroll into my bedroom at around 8.15am then has only 30 minutes to get a bath, brush his teeth, get dressed and have his breakfast

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Its summer now the nights are lighter he wont go to sleep because its not dark. Sis used to have a blind on the kids windows as well as curtains during the summer she'd pull them both to make sure its dark enough. Also he's 11 - when i was 11 i went to bed at 9 but read for an hour after going to bed. Maybe hes going to bed too soon as well flashy and that extra hour running around might tire him out a bit more.

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I still remember being confused as a child: why was I ordered to go to sleep when I wasn't tired, and made to get up when I was:confused:

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lol shut up you, EXAMS are more important, so 7 it will be (for a few days till his exams finish)

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I was still sent to bed at about 8.30 when I was 9, 10, 11ish.

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I don't have a problem at bedtime, thank God.

Up to now my two have been very good at going to bed. They don't mess about and they don't complain.

They go at 7.30pm on school nights and 8pm on weekends without a fuss. They have even been known to ask to go to bed if 8pm comes and I haven't made a move.

Mine are younger than Reece though, they are 7 and 4.

Maybe it will change as they get older.

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No they don't.........mine are 40 and 31 and if I tell them to go to bed...you can imagine the response.......:jimbo:

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thread wander sorry...... my brother is 23 now... when he was 19 and still lived with my mum they went on holiday and everyone wanted to do one thing and my brother wanted to do something different..... he wound my mum up so much she got really angry and shouted 'right... thats it.. BED!!!'

AND HE WENT! pmsl

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He did what???......................:gooddog:

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ty goes to bed ok for me........

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he goes to bed.. he just doesnt stay there. he is worse when someones here cos he wants to get up and chat with them...

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He didnt dare when i looked after him lol :D

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my 19 years old brother went to bed cos his mummy told him to....

i was laughing at him after and he said 'what would you have done?'
when i was 19 i was a mum lol

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I was in Malaya and I never went to bed :eek:............well sometimes

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My daughter is 9, goes to bed at 8pm school nights, is only allowed tele fri and sat, if she wants to read a book on school nights then she gotta go to bed at 7-30

Both the kids are great at bedtime tho, never come down or ask for anything

My son is 4 and he goes to bed at 7, he is asleep within 5 mins of him going to bed

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i will swap ya... both of yours for my one? bet you'll fetch him back before bed time :D

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Oh no..... I'll at least give him chance to get in bed:p

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you ask emzy....she knows my lad

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I go to bed at the end of October and wake up at the end of March .... It's called hibernation ... only in Canada eh.:alright:

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Trust you Eric!!

My 2 go to bed at 7pm, more often than not they do go straight to sleep but they are only young yet. They have always been good at going to bed though. I am hoping that as they get older I can keep them in this same routine but I will just have to wait and see..............

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i know what you mean Jen, i think after he has done his exams i'll let him go to bed a little later, unlike some parents around here i actually care about Reece's schooling and i want him to do well hence him going to bed so early, some of the kids around here stay up till all hours and the parents dont care about them or what they do at school

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when i was 15 and my mum died i moved in with my dad in Loveclough (Rossendale) but still went to Moorhead because i was in my last year it was pointless me changing schools, i had to be in bed for 8.30pm, the reason behind this? i had to get up at 6.30am every morning to get the three buses to school, i actually fell asleep in one of my GCSE mocks cos i was so tired

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my son goes to bed at about 9 ish, but he does mess about, probably because its light outside:rolleyes:
in the winter hes in bed for about 8 ish!

its murder trying to get the kids up in the morning, but in the end ya cant make em sleep can ya? :rolleyes:

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mine goes to bed at around half 8 or 9 everynite, he goes to sleep straight away, he is not interested on watching videos or playing with his toys, he sleeps in the afternoon as i got him to stick with the spanish siesta tradition lol, but he still goes to bed straight away, i hope it stays like that but i dont think it will

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As there are seven in this house of varying school ages (1 pre-school) bedtimes are not contested as such otherwise it would be chaos! The teenagers are generally about 9.30-10.00pm, nine/ten year olds 8.30-9.00pm with the youngest at 7.30 with a story. Anyone caught playing MP3's or with phones have them confiscated for a week - the teenagers especially don't like that :D
Only complaints we sometimes get are during holidays when they whinge on about not having school the next day. Don't mind on occasion but it is considered a treat.

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Its advised that children need a set number of hours sleep such as

5yr old = 11 hours
7yr old = 10.5
9 yr old = 10 hours
11yr old = 9.5 hours
14 yr old = 9 hours

This has been proven medically and i got the info from a doctor.
However, individuals work differently. My daughter is 14 and gets up without fail at 6.15, always has. (She likes to be prepared for school) But she doesn't go to bed till 10.00-10.30. She's never tired and i'm not worried about the amount of sleep she's getting.
Then there's the boy:rolleyes: He's 11 now and ive sent him to bed at 8.30 for about 3 years. Recently he's been having trouble sleeping and was subsequently tired in the morning. So, ive changed his bedtime routine- Bed is now at 9.30 BUT, no t.v after 9, no P.S after 8.30 and he goes up at 9.15 to do whatever. He's since been great, never moans, falls asleep quickly and is in a better mood in the morning.

I think sleep is an important issue, as working with kids i know alot of them didnt get enough and like Flashy says some parents dont care what time the kids are in the house nevermind in bed.