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[Drama Llama]

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Edited October 27, 2021 by BaseballandHockey

[HomeAgain]

Ds11 is not in a school, but he has a very structured routine.

7am: wake up, 1.25 mile run or 20 minutes of yoga.

7:30: wash up, breakfast, and chores

8:30-2:30/3pm: school

4:30 snack and prep for evening activity

Activities vary from starting at 5:15, 5:30, or 6:30, so dinner is built around that

7:30pm (or after activity): shower

1 hour of quiet in his room

Lights out no later than 9:30pm

[prairiewindmomma]

Wake an hour before the bus pickup.

Bus. 
School.

Bus drops off kid.

Snack, backpack check, decompression time. Any orthodontia or other appointments or errand running fit in this narrow window of time if possible.

Dinner.

Occasional evening activity. Homework.

Bed.

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My kids aren’t super sporty kids, but my 7th grader has friends who are. Her friends (traveling softball) have practice, late supper, start homework around 9:00, lights out 10:30-11:00pm. My kids need down time, lots of it, and lots of sleep. My 7th grader currently sleeps about 12 hours a night, and needs it. Most of her friends sleep 7 hours. 

[SKL]

When my kids were 11, I tried for between 9 and 10 hours of sleep.

[regentrude]

When my kids still attended middle school, our day was like this:

Wakeup 6:30-6:45. breakfast at 7. Leave house at 7:35 to walk to school.
School 8-3. Pickup, walk home, arrived before 4.
DD had the occasional after-school club at the school until 4.
Choir one day a week; she walked from school. Pickup at 5.
Riding lesson one afternoon a week;. No evening activities.
Quiet time in room beginning at 8pm. 
Kids were in charge of their own bedtime. Usually went to sleep between 9 and 10. So got solid 9 hours of sleep.

Edited August 27, 2021 by regentrude