What's wrong with letting a 3-year-old baby go to bed after 12:00am and wake up at around 9 or 10am everyday?

Answer 1

I understand that the best deep sleep one gets occurs in the earlier hours of the night, starting after dark and before midnight. If those hours of sleep are cut short routinely by always staying awake until much later, the rest one gets may not be quite as complete. This effect may be more serious in the toddler than in the adult. For this reason as a parent I would try to have my child in bed as soon after dark as possible, so they get the best sleep possible and stay as healthy as possible.

Answer 2

Nothing's wrong with it. My 4 year old has been on the same basic schedule since about 2-1/2. The only difference is that she is usually asleep by 10 or 11 and doesn't nap. She averages 12 hours of sleep per night which is fine. The getting up late thing isn't an issue either because we plan to homeschool. The only time we have problems is when we need to be somewhere first thing in the morning. On those days we get everyone and everything else ready first, wait until about 15 minutes before time to leave, get her up and dressed, and then leave. I think it's easier to get ready while she's sleeping so it actually takes less time to get ready than it would if she was actually awake at that time.

Answer 3

Here is a question. Does your 3 year old get a nap during the day? Mine did the same thing, until we toke his afternoon nap time away. Now our 3 year old goes to bed at 8 every night wakes up around 2 to go potty and then he's right back to bed. He usually wakes up around 7 or 8. There isn't anything wrong with going to bed at 12 but wouldn't you like to have some done time and some much needed rest? Try it.

Answer 4

Nothing, as long as it fits in with your schedule. Do things the way that it works for you, and people who tell you otherwise should mind their own business. They might mean well, but you know how things work for you, and that's what matters most.

The baby is getting approx. 10 hours of sleep and I imagine is taking a nap in there too, so I think they are getting enough sleep. Changing the schedule once school starts will need to happen, but you have time to do that. Just start moving bed time back a half hour every week until they are going to bed earlier. Problem solved.

Answer 5

Nothing, as long as the parents don't mind being up till then. However, the trouble comes when you need to start getting that kid into the habit of getting up early (like 6-8 am) to go to school. Old habits are hard to break - no matter how old a person is!

Answer 6

3 year olds need a bit more sleep than that, but as long as the child is getting a nap to make up for the additional hours of sleep, I don't see the problem with it. Different families have different schedules. If this schedule works for the 3 yo and his/her family then that's great!

The one potential problem I see is that they will want to adjust this schedule slowly between now and the time that the child is old enough for KG or s/he will have trouble with staying up too late/needing to wake up early for school.

Answer 7

Do not worry about when the baby sleeps. It is not bad parenting for the baby to go to bed at this time as it shows that you are smart enough to keep the baby awake with you and allow the baby to sleep while you sleep as well. It makes much more sense then putting the baby down early and then the baby being awake much earlier than you.
Ignore people telling you it will mess up baby's sleep schedule for when it's time to go to school (preK). It's not that hard to switch sleep times, as all of us adults have had to do it several times in our lives.

Answer 8

Because the 3 year old will get used to that and in a year or two when they start school they will be messed up because they won't be able to sleep in everyday.

Answer 9

when school time rolls around you will have a hard time getting your child to sleep earlier. its also unhealthy your child needs 12 hours of sleep a night. put the child to bed no later than 9 :30. my son is 3 and thats when he goes to bed and he sleeps til 9am your child needs sleep

Answer 10

Nothing is wrong with it. Just remember that when the three year old becomes a four year old in preschool or a five year old in kindergarden that you should start getting them used to "school hours" before school starts.