what is your bedtime routine for your kids? what time is bed time? ages?

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my just turned 4 year old has alwayssss been a great sleeper, but lately he stays up 2 hours past his bed time at times. he’s either trying to get out of his room with all his excuses, he’s crying, or he’s in his room playing. 
i am pregnant and so i haven’t been doing as much as i typically would with him. he does watch more tv than normal and less active/out door time. he doesn’t attend school yet either. so i feel like this is a huge reason. he’s just not getting his energy out. 
his bedtime is 7pm and he usually wakes around 7-7:30am. but as mentioned above, he’s not falling asleep for a couple hours after i put him down. 
we never co-slept. but he does ask to come into my bed, but whenever i would try it he never ever sleeps. 
i’m wondering if bedtime is too early for his age now. i see a lot of people having their kids in their room with them watching tv before bedtime. not sure if i should start that or not? do you think it would help? any suggestions?

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My older girls are 11 and 9 and they go to bed at 8 and wake up… depends really… usually around 6
My son 18 months goes to sleep at 7 wakes up at 7

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My daughter turns five in March and she does not have a TV in her bedroom
We play and hang out until about 6:30 and then she takes a bath or a shower and brushes her teeth. we read a book and then she goes to bed at 7￼￼ and wakes up around 7 
I don’t know if your son naps but we had to stop naps right before she turned four because she wasn’t sleeping very well at night and it took her about an hour and a half to to go to bed. Ever since we stopped doing naps it only takes her about 10 to 15 minutes until she’s asleep ￼

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Mine is 4 and is in school. 
Most nights we aim for this:
7:45- start getting ready, last bit of play/snack, potty, brush teeth/hair change into pjs. When we do a bath we start that at 7:15, but because of our schedule and her absolute hatred we don’t do that every night lol. 
8:00- read 2-4 books, pray and tuck in. She’s usually asleep by 8:30 and wakes up around 7:30am.
If she naps then it takes forever for her to fall asleep.

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Our son is 4. He starts getting ready for bed at 7:30 with the goal of being in bed by 8. We do pjs, teeth, toilet, book, prayers, lights out. He’s up at 6 on school days and 7 on weekends. He no longer takes a nap (unless he happens to fall asleep in the car going somewhere).

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I have 3 babies ages 5 and under. They all are in bed by 8pm. Sometimes I let the oldest 2 stay up a little on weekends only.

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I put my 7 and 4 year olds to bed around 7:30 and they can play or read in their room until 8 then it's quiet time.

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My son will be 4 in two days. His bedtime routine starts at about 6:45-7:15(depends on bath or shower night) with potty, brush teeth, pajamas, a book or two depending on time and lights out. He usually wiggles around some in his bed but the goal is to be completely asleep by 8pm. He wakes about 6:45-7am. He does not nap, just started preschool. 
I would also like to mention that over the past month, we have been dealing with a similar issue where he just wasn’t able to settle down enough to fall asleep on time and was staying up late every night. However, that seems to have stopped(fingers crossed). It helps that it is already getting darker when he goes to bed now. We stayed consistent. Bedtime was still regular time and he just stayed in his bed bouncing around until he fell asleep. But seems we are back on track now. Maybe it’s the same for your son.

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She is 4 and in preschool/daycare in the AMs and 4k in the PMs. We begin bedtime routine at 7-ish. It is potty, teeth, Bluey, story, song, sleep. Bath/shower is completed earlier in the evening. She is out right away-ish. She gets up around 6:30. She no longer has naptime.

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Might have something to do with you being pregnant. My first slept like a rock from 3 months until roughly halfway through my pregnancy with #2. We never co-slept, she went down super easy, then suddenly she refused to sleep and she would cry and cry and cry to sleep with me. I let her sleep with me because I was too tired lol
But my kids’ bedtime routine starts immediately after dinner. We go out for a walk. Around the neighborhood or to a park when the weather’s nice, and to Target if it’s not. My second is a nightmare if he doesn’t get his walk. Then we do a bath, or wash hands (they bathe every other night), then they relax with TV/coloring while I do some chores. Then brush teeth, read a book, and to sleep. My 6 year falls asleep around 8:45 now and my 3 year old closer to 9:30.

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i have a 3 and 5 year old and they share a room but their bed time is 7 as well, and if we get into bed at 7 on time ill let them watch tv for a bit to calm them down and then after a bit ill turn the show off, and my 3 year old goes to bed great but my 5 year old will stay up but i was just consistent in making him lay down we have a baby monitor in their room and ill talk to him through that but thats how we do it, good days and bad days lol!

what is your bedtime routine for your kids? what time is bed time? ages?

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