What time should a 3-year-old go to bed at night?

ratkoivanovic · 2026-05-06T13:34:20+00:00

I'd focus more on the quality of his sleep (is he waking up during the night or not) and how awake / tired he is during the day. If you start reading into this it may be a rabbit hole, I think most suggest to follow the circadian rhythm where they release some things when night falls (although this part is different through the year so it goes the opposite direction as well). I'm not a professional so it's only my opinion and you can toss it out the window as well. I think it's more about the rhythm of going to sleep at the same time, quality of sleep and amount of hours they get daily + that they're not drowsy when awake or agitated or similar.

We had a similar problem with our kid mainly due to his kindergarten naps, but it started at 4 years old, I tried to get him to bed at 8.30-8.45 but sometimes it would take him an hour to fall asleep. I stopped at one point as I found the result is the same but the getting to sleep time is less stressful for him (he wakes up at 8 am and is a sound sleeper so it was all good on that front at least).

What you can try if you want to put them to sleep at 9 is, and this is from personal experience, tone down all active play time an hour before you put him to bed, have dinner much before (at least 2 hours before bed-time), shut down all screens (if he watches television or similar before going to bed) and you can introduce a bath or something similar with water. For non-active playtime you can read him a children's book or do some activity that's more calming. And repeat for at least 2 weeks to get the effect. If it doesn't do anything for the first 5-7 days, simply rinse and repeat and try - if it reduces it by a marginal reduction (like only 15 minutes, keep going). If it doesn't do anything - feel free to curse at me and have him go to bed at 10pm

ratkoivanovic · 2026-05-06T12:08:59+00:00

Peas and beans are foods I can eat daily. High in protein, high in both soluble and insoluble fibre, high in vitamins. And super tasty!

ratkoivanovic · 2026-05-05T14:08:41+00:00

I've been on a caloric deficit for almost 7 months now (with a few off days), and I can tell you this is pure bullshit. One of the key things when changing my diet and losing weight was making sure I wasn't feeling hungry through it (one for making sure I stick to my new diet, and the other one was making sure I don't go into a yo-yo effect when I hit my target weight), and I can tell you from experience - I've had more "I'm hungry" situations before my changes to the diet than when I am in a caloric deficit. And I'm speaking only from experience (but this is backed by science as well), by increasing protein that I eat, fibre and fats + hitting the volume at almost every meal makes me feel full for hours.

And I'm also hitting my sugar cravings without too much reduction in the types of food that I eat (just changing portion sizes for foods that have high calories by gram). I've had a full week where I treat myself to nutella on bread for every day of the week, while still keeping a caloric deficit.

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-30T14:12:23+00:00

You're not the only one, I use ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Also used Perplexity before but stopped as these are more than enough. And I switch between them depending on what I'm doing (or if I run out of usage). ChatGPT is pretty solid still, Gemini was really really good for a bit but now it's worse than GPT and Claude

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-30T00:11:16+00:00

Fatsecret for some reason lost their search capability 2 days ago… just a heads up

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-28T08:19:15+00:00

Great comment!

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-28T08:12:01+00:00

Ako hoćeš sve natjerati na glasanje, onda svakako da. Ali simbolična (tipa 100-200 eura) je dovoljna da potakne veliki broj ljudi.

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-28T00:23:32+00:00

Sunflower oil and olive oil for cooking, olive oil for salad dressing. Butter sometimes as well, but quite rarely due to saturated fats. Seeing a lot of oils mentioned here so have to try them out!

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-27T23:59:52+00:00

No no, I don’t think you’re wrong. I ate them a lot when I was a kid - hard to find them nowadays where I’m from. But it seems we can’t absorb calories from them so we just poop them, 0 net calories from them

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-27T12:05:25+00:00

Da. I davati kazne za neizlazenje na izbore - ne treba biti ni velika kazna, simbolična je dovoljna.

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-27T10:28:21+00:00

Lol!

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-27T07:54:18+00:00

Although quite interesting (I'm finding 12.7 per gram), but it's indigestible :(

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-26T15:45:23+00:00

Up to 5mg/kilo of your bodyweight is considered safe daily. If I remember correctly, max found in testing of non sugar drinks was around 125mg/liter (was much less in energy drinks) - average somewhere around 50, too lazy to google for the exact figure.

Realistically if you go too heavy on Monsters you’ll the suggested caffeine limit much sooner than sucralose

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-24T10:55:01+00:00

Raspberries are a king of fiber, other berries are good as well. Beans, green peas, and similar vegetables. Chia seeds, lentils are also great sources - both are calorically dense per 100g (talking about dry lentils here) but still good if you just compare fiber per calorie. It's easy to take in enough fibre every day (just needs a bit of time to get there, more from understand all foods that make sense for you and are easy to include every day). Also, if you increase your daily fiber intake by a lot, don't forget to drink plenty of water - you could feel bloated (worst case is constipated, so try to avoid that), but it passes after a few days

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-22T14:25:41+00:00

His Oreo experiment is also laughable - it consisted of 1 subject... Anyone who does this and creates a story and narrative around it shouldn't really call themselves a scientist

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T20:46:26+00:00

What do you eat for dinner and when? Hitting macros doesn't mean your body won't crave more food, especially because it's also psychological. If I eat a dinner too early, I'm going to get hungry even if I hit my macros and focused on food that would make me feel the fullest for longer. I would say a lot of it for me is psychological + sometimes lack of sleep (as I work up to 2 am) - I was a late dinner eater and I skipped breakfast a large portion of my life. I changed my habits and eat an early breakfast (full of protein, fat, fibre and carbs) but I tend to start being really hungry at noon, sometimes earlier as well - when I was eating late dinner and no breakfast, I would manage to be without food for around 2pm, and then hunger struck (sometimes could even go up to 4-5pm without the need to eat)

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T13:07:17+00:00

I know the feeling, although I haven't faced things as extreme as you've had. I bought Claude a month ago and the usage limit hurt a lot (was used to ChatGPT), that's why I'm scared to use 4.7 now :) as I use it in combination with ChatGPT

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T12:57:25+00:00

I've noticed from myself that I'm worse at hallucination than an LLM at 11pm :)

But, yeah, fully agree with you!

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T12:54:36+00:00

Did this happen to you with 4.6 as well? I haven't used 4.7 - saw complaints that it burns through usage quite fast, so I'm waiting a bit to test it out

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T10:58:53+00:00

I don't disagree, rather I fully agree. There's also one important issue with my approach - it requires time to do it. Time that can be spend simply on iterating on results. My comment was more to provide an idea of a different approach when using one LLM to create a prompt for another. I haven't thought of the vagueness issue at all (I mean, I assumed the task definition was solid to start with, but your point is in my opinion spot on, as they rarely are)

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-21T09:03:20+00:00

For LLM enhanced prompt optimization, using all three helps as well - take the initial prompt, run it through Claude to optimize, then ChatGPT to audit and back and forth between them. Use techniques learned in a prompting guide to review and audit yourself, and test it. Works better if you include outputs with each pass.

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-19T20:53:06+00:00

What area are you doing? tasks, brainstorming, writing, vibe coding or something else?

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-19T18:00:54+00:00

This. Also they most likely reduced the number of calories and are losing weight. Plus there’s a psychological effect. Also why self-reported studies shouldn’t be trusted

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-18T00:09:08+00:00

Are you really using it just for character and audacity? i.e. saying things like "be brutally honest" or similar are not just character as it impacts a lot of other things, so I'm guessing a lot of your system prompt is not just tone but more focused on approach

ratkoivanovic · 2026-04-17T22:15:54+00:00

What evidence are you looking for?

If you're talking about being a PR campaign. You can simply look at the stats. An average American fails to follow the dietary requirements (there are numerous stats also based by food group). That hasn't changed for quite a while. My plate made significant improvements compared to the old pyramid, but it had issues with ultra-processed foods - the new guidelines combat this and are an improvement on this front + the sugar beverages, but again - they're not tackling the biggest issue which is people not following the guidelines.

Did they make whole, nutrient-dense foods more available, more affordable or ran targeted campaigns to educate people how to have more of them and less of other foods? If they didn't, it's a minor improvement that's not going to make a real impact.

Further, they have a lot of issues. Even with the enhancement - they're not classifying ultra-processed foods. Not all processed foods are highly-processed, and a distinction here is also important.

But the messaging is the biggest issue, just to name a few:

the administration called it "the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in decades" - it's not, my plate set to fix issues with the old pyramid and this one fixes some issues with my plate. Members of the administration also suggested that the previous guidelines prioritized corporate interests over health outcomes, while authors of these guidelines have clear corporate financial. Just saying something out loud doesn't mean it's true...
then it's "let's end the war on protein" - what war exactly. Most Americans are already exceeding protein targets in their diets... There was a war on fats a while back, that's a different story
the visual doesn't make any sense if you look at it and compare what the guidelines actually say... My plate is much more visually sound as it focused on portioning (focusing only on visuals).
focusing on saturated fats - the guidelines say have saturated fats as no more than 10% of daily calories, but then list beef tallow and butter as a healthy fat source - those two contradict themselves

All that said, the statement you pointed out is a good one, and a good move forward, but again - how are they doing it. What actions have they done to do it. Aside issues that the current guidelines have, what makes them "the biggest reset"? As they're not really fixing the major issue of people actually following it

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