My niece lives now lives with me (10 years old) and doesn’t like me calling it “bedtime”… it’s “baby-ish”… but she doesn’t have an alternate suggestion. I’m open to ideas?
Perhaps just say “time to get ready for bed”?
“lights out” (screen lights count too)
“Eight hours before time to get up”?
My wife and I (late 40’s, with no kids) refer to it as sleepy time in our house, but that probably isn’t any better than bedtime. 😆
Tell her it’s time to hit the hay.
Time for non-eternal rest
or time for temporary death
At my house we called it “Quit stalling and get your ass in bed”.
Sometimes we say “crash-down” or “splash-down”, like a space capsule. You could also try something completely off the wall that just becomes your shared euphemism for bedtime. Maybe the ending of some book or movie you all like can give you some inspiration?
“Looks like it’s sleepin’ time. Gotta sleep-sleep-sleep.” Or just sleep time.
fin like the movies, imagine it like your day is the end of a episode in your life
Time to get some sleep so you have more energy to do things tomorrow!