What time do you or would you send your 10yr old to bed?

Question

My daughter is in 5th grade and is pouting about her bedtime, she gets up between 6:30 and 7:00am, what time would you set her bedtime for?

**WOW, I am very pleased that I have stuck to my guns on this one and not even considered giving in to her pouting! lol...I send her to bed at 9:00pm no if ands or buts....lol Thank you everyone for your answers.

Answer 1

I say 9:00 with no naps during the day

Answer 2

I have a 10 year old, 7 year old and 4 year old. The two boys have to get up at the same time (10 & 7) for school so they go to bed at 8:30 and are allowed to read until 9 then its lights out, I let them stay up till 10 on weekends but in their rooms at 9. My four year old girl goes to bed lights out and everything at 8:30.

Answer 3

My 10 and 12 yr old starts heading for bed at 8 pm. They have to get up at 6am.

If her grades are good and you do not have any problems getting her up in the morning, let her stay up a half an hour later after a week you can go another 1/2 hour.
If you have problems getting her out of bed, let her know that her bed time will be an hour earlier that evening. With this method you can dial in the sleep your child needs. ( I would not recommend any later than 9:30pm)

Answer 4

Children need sleep, she should be sleeping 9-10 hours a night I would send her to bed between 9 and 9:30

Answer 5

If I had a 10 year old in 5th grade and she gets up at 630-7am I would send her to bed @ 930-10 some nights would be a compromise if there was a movie on or something else going on. 9pm get ready for bed i.e. brush teeth, jammies, etc. bed @ 930. You're her mom though so that decision is up to you. Vary if she is a hard/easy person to get up in the morning or how well she does in school. Maybe she stays up too late so shes tired at school and not learning to her full potential.

Goodluck!

Answer 6

My daughter is 8 and needs at least 9 hours of sleep so she's not a grouch the next day. I'd definitely say in bed by 9 pm.

Answer 7

My oldest is 9 1/2. He has to be in bed by 8:30-9pm. He says he's not tired, but the next thing I know he is asleep in about 15min. He needs a moment to wind down & relax. A lot of times, he falls asleep right before dinner.

Answer 8

Kids this age need about 10 hours of sleep so sending her to bed between 8:30-9pm is best. When my step-kids were in high school they were allowed to stay up until 10pm on school nights and midnight on weekends. There is really no reason for a kid at age 10 to be up that late...TV that late at night is not appropriate for a child.

Answer 9

My 12 year old goes to SLEEP at 9:30pm he plays hes up hes down ,,, hes in the bathroom .. he's out . He has to talk to me about something then finally .. around 9:30 he is out. But 7th grade is hard. But it seems that everyone has generally the 8-9 block.

Answer 10

Whether your child is starting school for the first time or entering his last year of high school, one thing that many children have to deal with is getting on a good sleep schedule. Not getting enough sleep is an important cause of school performance problems, leading to attentional and behavioral problems, so it is important to encourage good sleep habits for children of all ages. It is now well known that being sleep deprived can lead to behavioral and attentional problems in school, so it is important that your teen gets enough sleep.

A nine year old needs about 10 hours of sleep. If your child is used to staying up late during the summer and typically sleeps from 11pm to 9am, then getting up at 6 or 7am once school starts will be hard. To still get 10 hours of sleep, she will now have to go to bed at about 8 or 9pm.

High school age kids need about 9 (14 year olds) to 8 1/4 (17-18 year olds) hours of sleep a day. A late sleep phase is also important to fix at this age.
Be consistent but flexible: Routines are essential, but allow some room for flexibility.
Regular schedules provide the day with a framework that orders a young child's world. Although predictability can be tedious for adults, children thrive on sameness and repetition. "Knowing what to expect from relationships and activities helps children become more confident," says Dr. Peter Gorski, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachussetts.

Some people think you should let your kids do as they wish, no boundries, no rules, no admonitions. I have 4 kids, 3 of which attend school, and then theres my husband who gets up at 2:45 every morning for work.

The kids (ages 5, 14 and 16) get up at 7:15 every morning, the bus gets here at 7:45.
Its shower time between 7:00 and 8:45pm, and during that time we get out clothes for the next school day and make sure everyone has their book bags ready to go. From 8:45 to 9:00, snacks before bed, kids with a full tummy go to sleep quicker than those with nothing in their stomaches. By 9:15 the lights go out and everyone must be in bed.
Also when my kids get home from school, we have a lite lunch before dinner, we make sure everyones home work is done, and then we spend each warm day outside riding bicycles and getting plenty of excersize. Keep your kids busy, and energetic. They will tire sooner and wont feel like complaning about bed time, they will actually FEEL like going to bed.