We were discussing this on one of my mommy boards the other day, and actually posted a poll about this. There was one lone person who said (claimed? 
) on the poll that she put her little one to bed at the exact same time every night. About half of the respondents put them down within an hour of their “bedtime”, and the other half put them down when they were sleepy.
If Lil’ Duck was always tired at the same time every night, I’d definitely put him down at the same time. I think it would also be easier if we didn’t have wacky work hours where Daddy is coming home late at night, encouraging the little guy to play with Daddy since he hasn’t seen him all day.
What do you think? What do you do in your house about bedtime??
Both of my toddlers are usually in bed no later than 8 pm. I have to say that I have been lucky that both my kids have been wonderful about bedtime and rarely, if ever, protest to going to bed. But then again, both also starting sleeping through that night at around 8 weeks old. I have been blessed in that department.
We’ve been putting our kids consistently to bed at around 7:30 p.m. for as long as I can remember. But now that my daughter is pushing three, we’re picking a night or two a week when she can stay up a little later and have some special play time with her parents. We’ve also been letting bedtime gravitate closer to 8 p.m., especially for her. (Her brother just turned one.)
Lisa,
we put the kids to bed at 8:00 every night now sometimes it may be a half hour or so later but you get the gist. Kyra goes to bed right away not a word smiles gives me a kiss and rolls over Jayden is a whole other story uses every excuse to get out of his room plays for awhile. That kid would litterally stay up all night if we let him, and he has!