Do you take your tween/teen phone at night ?

[Anonymous]

I notice when my phone is upstairs I reach to check it when I semi-wake up. If I leave it downstairs, I roll over and go back to sleep longer. My teens have even less willpower than I do so I KNOW they are getting less restful sleep from obsessively checking it!! During the school years phones charge downstairs during homework and bed.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Heck, I'm an adult, and even I have a hard time not reaching for my phone if I'm having a hard time falling asleep, doing one last check for notifications/messages/etc. before lights out, etc.

[Anonymous]

I used to ask for it to be charged downstairs by 9pm when she first got it. Now she just does it on her own before bed at 15yrs old. She doesn't want the distraction. It amazes me how many people snap, ig, and text until midnight, 1am, even 2am on school nights. Parents are clueless how sleep deprived their kids are. It is addicting to not put it down when others are still texting and responding to social media.

That said, our entire family charges downstairs at night. No one has a phone, iPad or laptop in their bedroom. Master bedroom is only room upstairs with a tv too but that is mainly for sick days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you let them have a landline and a tv with cable? Because that's basically what it is.

Yes. If we had it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to ask for it to be charged downstairs by 9pm when she first got it. Now she just does it on her own before bed at 15yrs old. She doesn't want the distraction. It amazes me how many people snap, ig, and text until midnight, 1am, even 2am on school nights. Parents are clueless how sleep deprived their kids are. It is addicting to not put it down when others are still texting and responding to social media.

That said, our entire family charges downstairs at night. No one has a phone, iPad or laptop in their bedroom. Master bedroom is only room upstairs with a tv too but that is mainly for sick days.

It was happening at 15. 16-17: passing out earlier and take naps when possible.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It is a condition of keeping the phone. It gets checked in downstairs every evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to ask for it to be charged downstairs by 9pm when she first got it. Now she just does it on her own before bed at 15yrs old. She doesn't want the distraction. It amazes me how many people snap, ig, and text until midnight, 1am, even 2am on school nights. Parents are clueless how sleep deprived their kids are. It is addicting to not put it down when others are still texting and responding to social media.

That said, our entire family charges downstairs at night. No one has a phone, iPad or laptop in their bedroom. Master bedroom is only room upstairs with a tv too but that is mainly for sick days.

It was happening at 15. 16-17: passing out earlier and take naps when possible.

Like our President.

[Anonymous]

We have teens 14, 16, and 17. I programmed the phones not to have service past 10 and set up a rule on the wi-fi to cut off wi-fi to phones and computers at 10 PM. It is not perfect, i.e., can still play games that work in "airplane mode" but I also want them to learn some self-monitoring. Seems to work as I go to bed around 11:15 and usually everyone is sound asleep by then.

[Anonymous]

Yes, goes downstairs each night at 9 pm. And friends keep texting each other (I can see them still coming in on group texts) until all hours of the night. Crazy waste of time and sleep! Some friends put their phone in bed with them as they fall asleep. Teens developmentally can't self regulate and not respond to texts if the phone is right there.

[Anonymous]

We don't take it away. They use it as an alarm. I do remotely lock it with a parental app to avoid late night or early morning usage. The can still use the phone and calendar when it's locked down. I also lock it to push them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't take it away. They use it as an alarm. I do remotely lock it with a parental app to avoid late night or early morning usage. The can still use the phone and calendar when it's locked down. I also lock it to push them.

What parental app?

[Anonymous]

Yes. It is easy to get "distracted" on the phone..... "I am just going to look up one more thing/watch one more video/check social media one more time" and miss out on good sleep time.

Yes! Many parents who think their babies need their phones for alarms think that their babies are never, ever the ones sending snaps at 1 am on school nights..... but as a parent who has the firm rule about electronic plugged in overnight in the kitchen, I can assure you virtually ALL of your kids are posting (at least sometimes) well into the night.

[Anonymous]

I use the Our Pact app and schedule social media, texting and internet to go off at 9.
13 yo

[Anonymous]

Yes, the phone isn't allowed upstairs.

[Anonymous]

It goes in the charger in the living room. But I also have ATT smart limits on it. She can't make/receive calls, texts (except to us, 911, grandparents) or use the internet from 8:30-6:30.