What time should a 12 year old go to bed?
What my grandparents did (but not done to me by my parents, strangely enough):—Children under 13 should be in bed at 9 pm. They are allowed to roll around and do their ‘thing’ until they get bored enough and go to sleep on their own. The point is not about 9 pm sleeping, but 9 pm being “the time” for physical bedtime. The time they’re still awake till they fall asleep is an old-fashioned upbringing doctrine to get the kids into the habit of getting into bed at a fixed time and lie there awake and do some reflection. It’s all quite Victorianesque, I grant you that.Children aged 13–16 enjoy more flexibility, but positively no later than 11 pm. Another old-fashioned upbringing doctrine to train the kids up in reflection.After 16, you’re lucky if they’d actually listen to you anymore, so don’t bother trying to get them in bed. They’d probably want to get in bed with someone else, geddit?My parents were hippies (who looked nothing like the popular image of hippies), so those old-fashioned rules never applied to me. Then again, I did grow up in 13 different countries around the world, so it was rather harder to apply in my case.Update:—Depends on which generation you belong to (or believe in). The bedtime hour is less to do with the supposed required number of hours of sleep and more on habituating a routine into the kids. Of course, if we choose to believe in this doctrine…Update 2:—Never mind my parents and their hippie ways. Did my grandparents imposed fixed bedtimes when I lived with them? YES, I obeyed — and they were open-minded enough too to allow me 1–2 nights every week to be in bed at whatever the hell time I want as “breathing space” to avoid my ‘rebellion.’ I didn’t see the point of rebelling — considering the surrealistic insanities of my parents, a fixed time for anything can sometimes be a godsend.We learn the ‘bigger’ rules of life from the habit of the ‘lesser’ rules of home.
What time should a nine year old go to bed ?
8-8:30 sounds good and have them get ready for the next day before bed also try having their toys downstairs.....also try checking on them every 10 minutes until their asleep
What time do high school students go to bed?
On weekdays, usually it's 10 PM, then wake up at 5 AM, but some nights good ol' insomnia kicks in and it gets near impossible to sleep.A lot of my friends don't get to bed until 1 AM, but they wake up way later than I do.When it comes to the weekends, I usually go to sleep at midnight, while my friends wait til 3 or 4 in the morning.They ask me how I can wake up so early, I ask them how they can go to bed so late.
What is a good time to go to bed on a school night?
I have 3 children 1,8 and 12. The baby lays down at 8:30pm and my other 2 are in bed at 9pm. My day starts at 5:30am and theirs starts at 6:30 11:45 is WAY to late.
What time should my 13-year-old daughter go to bed?
It depends on what time your child has to leave for school and how long it takes her to get ready and eat.After determining that, reccomend a time that gives her about eight hours of sleep. I wouldn't go up to her and force her to sleep at exactly 9 PM sharp. She won't go to sleep and will purposefully stay up longer just to do exactly the opposite of what you said. I was that child.The best way to go about it is by merely suggesting that she should go to bed. However, if she doesn't want to, that's her choice. There's no reason to discipline her for not going to sleep. She still has to wake up at 6 or whatever time despite when she actually went to sleep. She will get consequences for not going to bed. She will be tired during school. After getting yelled at a teacher for sleeping in class, it might dawn upon her that going to sleep at an earlier time would be better for her.Thus, to answer your question, teens need 7–9 hours of sleep each night. Suggest that she goes to bed at a time that she would get at least seven hours of sleep before she has to get ready for school.Hello, M.Lilliana.
What time do people in Japan go to bed?
Well, there is no national bedtime! It varies, of course. Many salary men (and women, I presume) get home very late, and sleep very little. Long ago, when I came to Japan to live with my host family, I was living in their house for an entire week before I ever saw my host father. He came home after I went to bed at around 11pm, and was already gone for work before I woke up between 6–7am. He slept very little.Students often stay up late and sleep very little especially if they are in a year when they will take an entrance exam for the next level of school.Children tend to stay up later than most families I know in the US allow their kids to stay up. Some of that has to do with the fact that fathers come home late, and some of it is that fact that small children tend to sleep with their parents, and not in their own rooms. I have friends in the US who put their kids to bed at 7:30pm. I have never known any Japanese families with a bedtime so early. When I had babies and toddlers it seemed that all of my Japanese mom friends, like me, would nurse their babies to sleep whenever they got sleepy and fussy rather than having a strict, non-negotiable bed time. Bed times come more into play once the kids are in kindergarten and school, but I think moms still follow the kids’ cues within reason, and bedtimes are generally later than what many Americans would deem normal.My husband and I like to chill a bit after the kids are in bed and quiet for the night, so we usually go to bed between 11–11:30pm. I try not to stay up later if possible, because we have to get up at 6am.
What's the last thing you say to your children before they go to sleep?
So I was a nanny, not a parent. When working evenings, I would say things like Sleep well, my darling. But I made up a song that kids came to love:“Good night, little oneRest well, little oneClose your eyes and go to sleepDream well, little oneSleep well, little oneAnd soooon we'll play againSleep well, we'll play againDream well, and Iiiii looooove youuuu.”In reality, I used their gender (little boy/little girl), and because, in my personal growth, I was working on believing that I matter, I usually sang “I love me and you”. Almost always I would be stroking their hair or forehead (not face, too stimulating) while singing, and end with a forehead kiss in the relationships where that was okay. This was tremendously soothing and if kids were already at the near sleep stage, this was like a warm, cozy blanket to them and they drifted happily off to dreamland.One dad recorded it on his iPhone years later to play for his kid sometimes. It makes me so happy that some kids got a really positive going-to-sleep experience.
When dividing up time for each child - should we take turns putting them to bed each night or do this together
Sure nothing is wrong with this way of putting your kids to bed. Its also great that you and your partner are reading to your children. You,could always say good night to each child,so both of you spend one on one each night with the child. Good Luck
Should kids be able to choose their own bedtime?
children shouldn't choose their own bedtimes - because they're children - and they tend to make bad decisions....therefore, they'll stay up too late on a regular basis, miss the bus in the morning, skip things like breakfast and brushing their teeth, get bad grades due to being overtired in class, become ill a whole lot more often due to being run down, and be a complete monster to everyone due to being severely sleep deprived. a decent bedtime for a 12yr old would depend on what time they usually need to get up in the morning for school....when my son was 12, he had to get up at 7:30am to get ready for school - his bedtime was 10pm....however, halfway through the year, we moved to a different school district - his new time for getting up for school was 5:45(!) - therefore, his bedtime changed to 9pm - yes, he got less sleep, but i allowed it because he was able to handle it. as for the weekends, i'm not all that strict about friday nights - sometimes, i'll allow him to stay up until midnight (he's now 14, btw, but the same applied at age 12). however, on saturday night, unless there's something super special going on, he's got to go to bed by 10, so that on sunday night, he can re-adjust to going to bed at 9.