When you were growing up..

... what time did you go to bed? (I'm thinking primary school age)

I was always in bed by 8:30..

BIL is complaining because its report time of the year (hes a teacher) and in lots of his reports he has written that it would be helpful if their child wasn't tired every day at school from staying up so late at night. He said theres kids in his class that stay up til 10 or 11 at night! I was never allowed to do that when I was lil! No wonder the lil guys are tired for school!

Primary for the first few years we were in bed at 7.30 and it gradually got later as we got older. Once I hit high school (5th form) I didn't have a bed time.

I was 7.30 from memory, but would stay up late and watch Macgyver or Flying Doctors one night a week, but could not watch both. Now most the time it is 8.30 as I have always needed my sleep

Cant remembver what it was at primary school,...but it was always 8.30pm at high school

7.30 for primary school. 9.30 for high school.

even now it is generally 9.30 - ish!

I was one of those kids that needed sleep and we used to be in bed about 6.30 at primary school and was always in bed before 8.30 at high school. I am still early to bed now (or was before Luke came along)

LOL Teresa!!!!!!!!

I recall vividy sitting at my window sill watching kids play on the road during daylight savings and thinking i was the only kid in the world who was in bed by 7 30!!! and how unfair it was!

I think 8pm tops for under 10, and from there it depends....the kids behnd us are both under 10 annd come 10 30pm they are STILL up...that is absurd!!! and their parents are teachers too!!!!

When we were in japan my friend who was from england had a little boy same age as Jake (ajke was under 1). He asked me when Jake slept and I said he went to bed at 7. His little boy went to sleep at 1am!!!! I say "sleep" as his family didn't believe in bedtimes, but that the child would sleep when tired. His little boy was a very vague child in my opinion - cause he was so tired all the time I think

We also had problems with kids of school age going to bed so late - school, then after school activities, then cram school, then home, then tea, then homework, bed at 11am, back up at 6 to get ready for the next day. So sleeping in class was accepted. and then of course you had more homework cause you';d slept thorugh the lesson. Crazy.

I always put myself to bed before 8 - i had a choice often. And by 10:30 for high school

For me it was 7:30 and it got moved to about 9 when we started high school.

8:30 was it for me for a little while. I think Weekends started to be an exception - prob Saturday only - once I was about 7 I think. One I got to 13-14 though, bedtime was really anything as I've always been more productive at night and find it easier to study etc. I'm def in owl, not whatever the morning ppl are called. Even on massive amounts of coffee I just barely function in the morning - my best working hours are after lunch and then into the night
As for Gina, she goes to bed around 8:30-9:00 normally at the moment.