How should a 2 year old schedule be?

Question

To all moms of 2 year olds, how do they schdule there kids day, wake up time, nap time, bed time. and am I doing it wrong? My 2 year old goes to bed at the same time i do, I stay at home with her and my 8 months old, and they both go to be at 10:30 or 11 and wake up at 9am then my 2 year old naps at 1:30 for almost 2 hours after lunch and then goes back to playing and then dinner at 7pm. It works for me but i think maybe I;m wrong.

Answer 1

Here's my two-year-old's schedule:

Wake up - 8:00
Prepare breakfast (he helps) and eat - 8:30
Clean-up and brush teeth
Play outside or go for a walk until 10:00
Structured play (duck duck goose, hide and seek, dance together, ect.) until 11:00
Prepare lunch and eat 11:30
Clean up
Read books, sing songs until 12:30
Lay down and watch a movie (sometimes he naps sometimes not) until 2:30
Snack
Art and Crafts until 4:00
He has free time in his room while I prepare dinner
Then we clean up right before Daddy gets home
He helps set the table and then we eat at 5:30
We clear the table and he has time with Daddy (usually out side) until 7:00
Bathe, brush teeth, read a story, sing a song, say our prayers and in bed by 8:30

If we have other things to do like shop, or go to the park, pool, etc. I try to do it between breakfast and lunch so he has a good nap and is well rested the remainder of the day.

This is what works for me. If your schedule works for you I'd keep it. I like my free time at night so I have personal time with my husband who has to go to bed early to be at work at 6AM. But every family is different so make a schedule to suit you and your family.

Answer 2

My daughter is two, and my son is almost 9 months. Our schedule is:
Baby:
Wakes up @ 6 (breakfast @ 6:30)
Naps @ 9-10 & 2-3 (lunch @12)
Bed @ 8 (dinner @ 7)

Toddler:
Wakes up @ 7 (breakfast @ 9)
Naps @ 1-3 (lunch @ 12)
Bed @ 10 (dinner @ 7)

If you have ANY schedule, that is wonderful! I like the way mine works out, even though their schedules are a little off because I get time with each of them individually. Now, do they always stick to this schedule? I don't think so! But, as you said, your schedule works for you, so my advice would be to stick to it! :)

Answer 3

I think if that is the schedule that works for your family, then great! I stay at home with my 2 year old and this is his schedule..
Wake- 5:30 (uck!! not my decision!)
Nap- 11:30-2:30
Dinner- 5:30
Bedtime- 8-8:30

I wish I could get him to sleep longer in the morning but no matter what I do he still gets up at 5:30. That is why he goes to bed so early!! Best of luck!!

Answer 4

You are perfectly fine. My son went to bed close to midnight for a long time and slept until about 10 am. The only reason it was like that is because my husband and i worked odd hours and got home around that time and would have to pick him up from the baby sitters. Sometimes he was asleep when we got there, but it always woke him up when we tried to leave, and eventually he just got on the schedual of staying up late and getting up late. Some people thought it was strange, but it worked for our family just fine. We have moved since then and now have day jobs, and he is now used to going to bed at around 9pm and gets up around 7am. Other than a set bed time he really has no schedule, he eats around the same time each day, but it's not set in stone, only the 9 pm bed time is.

Answer 5

I believe if it works for you, then don't worry to much about it.
However When my son was two, he was up around seven ate breakfast about eight, snack about ten lucnh around eleven thirty to twelve nap from one to three thirty snack at four dinner five thirty to six, bath at seven quiet time after that for winding down.
I learned that it was easier getting him on a schedule now, which gives less tension and less fighting for later on when he really needs to be on school schedule....
My oldest is now three going on four and I have a six month old that is already following in the same set schedule, so I kind of know when my free time is..
Besides you really want your kids going to bed without you, that way you have your free time to yourself, cause in with my kids I am a single mother of two and deffinatly need my time.....when I can get it.
good luck -- doesn't matter what schedule you have them on, every now and then the schedule goes out the window, and someone is up in the middle of the night or not feeling good or needs extra attention.

Answer 6

Our little guy is two a million/2 and our time table outdoors of sound asleep is distinctly unfastened. I artwork section time so 3 days each and every week I ought to wake him around 7:40 5 am then it somewhat is off to families domicile for babysitting. Then he gets a a million a million/2 hour nap from a million:30-3pm then at 8pm we watch one comic strip,get jammies on then off to mattress for a sprint snuggle and music time. On my days off he generally sleeps until eventually around 8:30-9 then repeat. for the duration of the day our activities exchange yet we consistently play,study thoughts,take baths,circulate on outings do the in spite of's of the day.

Answer 7

I have five children one of them being a two year old. All my children are in a good routine. My two year old is up at 7.30am. He has an afternoon nap at 1pm for about two hours. We eat at 5.30 pm wich gives plenty of time for his meal to digest before he has a bath and goes to bed between 8 and 8.30pm. I believe early to bed, early rise makes you healthy, wealthy and wise. Getting him to bed early also gives me "my time". I can sit back and relax or have a bath, read a book, whatever I want to do because it is my time.

Answer 8

My 20 months son sleeps around 10pm and gets up at 8am morning, takes nap around 12pm to 2pm. It sounds like your kids, and he is doing great. I am sure so do your children. As long as they are happy and not particularly cranky or have wried behavior, your schedule is good for your kids surely.

Answer 9

Totally fine. As long as they're getting enough sleep, and you're happy with it, good job. My toddler and baby (same ages) wake up at 6. Wanna trade?

Answer 10

If you're all getting enough sleep then who cares what time of day it is? I'm impressed that you have a toddler and an infant on ANY kind of schedule! Way to go, momma! ;)