Sleeping In On the Weekends

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Anonymous wrote:How late does your tween/teen sleep? My 14 yr old didn’t get up until nearly noon today.

Teenagers need more sleep due to the changes their bodies are going through.

[Anonymous]

My teen has been growing like crazy. We get him up if he is still asleep at 1 pm on a weekend. There are many weekend days when he can't sleep late so when he can, we let him.

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10 or they can't go to sleep Sunday night

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Anonymous wrote:Adult and I easily sleep that late or later.

Same here. Sleeping in is one of the greatest luxuries and I take advantage of it whenever I can. As do my children, with our encouragement.

Agree. As long as they are getting up fine for school, I let them self regulate.

Disagree. I think it’s important to instill good sleep habits. Ds14 and Ds11 we both up by 8 on weekends and in bed no later than 10 or 10:30

[Anonymous]

I have mixed feelings about this. There are occasions when my 12 year old will sleep until 10:30 or 11 if he doesn't have sports. But I think back to myself at that age and I was definitely up and dressed by 10:00 AM after eating breakfast with the family. My parents usually had Saturday chores for us (examples depending on time of year: clean room, help fold laundry, weeding, help shovel snow, empty dishwasher, rake leaves, etc.) and then after a chore or two we had a lot of freedom to do what we wanted - play outside, go to a friend's house, library, etc. We could watch Sat morn cartoons, but after that the TV usually stayed off until evening, unless my dad was watching golf - lol. This was the norm among my friends. I feel like I am encouraging some laziness if I let him sleep too long. And then the first thing he wants to do when he gets up is electronics!

[Anonymous]

One teen is typically up 7ish
One teen we wake up no later than 9ish

They go to sleep around 11 on the weekends.

[Anonymous]

It's normal. Tween/teen sleep patterns often naturally shift to become more nocturnal. Add in the fact that kids are up later with activities and homework, and then expected to get up early for school (MS and HS often start earlier than ES, when it should be the other way) and you end up with kids running a sleep deficit that they are trying to fix over the weekend.

[Anonymous]

He sleeps till noon and takes a nap before dinner.

They need sleep, their week is insane.. they are growing and need to recharge.

Who denies a tired kid sleep.

[Anonymous]

I love sleeping in so I don't wake up my teens on the weekend. If they want to sleep till 2pm, that is fine with me. My mom used to wake me up before 8am on Sundays(my only free day, I went to high school and music school back in Europe) which is like attending 2 HS for the most part. Instead of 6,7 classes, I had 12 classes per week. She would go nuts if we didn't finish cleaning the house by 10am on Sunday. As you can see I still resent the heck out of it, approaching 50.
Why would I wake them up? They can stay up late, and sleep in. Other than some nuts power trips, why wake them up?

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Anonymous wrote:Adult and I easily sleep that late or later.

Same here. Sleeping in is one of the greatest luxuries and I take advantage of it whenever I can. As do my children, with our encouragement.

Agree. As long as they are getting up fine for school, I let them self regulate.

Disagree. I think it’s important to instill good sleep habits. Ds14 and Ds11 we both up by 8 on weekends and in bed no later than 10 or 10:30

DS14 and 11, so not 16 and 18? You can disagree all you want, you don't have a 16 year old and you sound like a control freak. Examine why are you so rigid and my way or the highway. Good sleeping habits is only an excuse for you to power trip your kids. Plus you have an 11 year old. Much different than 16 year old. Rigid parents create children who go nuts once in college or faced with peer pressure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adult and I easily sleep that late or later.

Same here. Sleeping in is one of the greatest luxuries and I take advantage of it whenever I can. As do my children, with our encouragement.

Agree. As long as they are getting up fine for school, I let them self regulate.

Disagree. I think it’s important to instill good sleep habits. Ds14 and Ds11 we both up by 8 on weekends and in bed no later than 10 or 10:30

DS14 and 11, so not 16 and 18? You can disagree all you want, you don't have a 16 year old and you sound like a control freak. Examine why are you so rigid and my way or the highway. Good sleeping habits is only an excuse for you to power trip your kids. Plus you have an 11 year old. Much different than 16 year old. Rigid parents create children who go nuts once in college or faced with peer pressure.

What she is doing doesn't even make sense with all the research of the last 20 yrs!!!

And the article pp posted doesn't even say what that poster thinks it does. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Problem is then having them get up on Monday. Sleep researchers coin this “social jet lag” and it’s like flying to Europe every week. It’s not healthy...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915164815.htm

This article does not say what you think it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adult and I easily sleep that late or later.

Same here. Sleeping in is one of the greatest luxuries and I take advantage of it whenever I can. As do my children, with our encouragement.

Ditto.

[Anonymous]

I have such bitter memories of my mom banging on a drum at 9am every Saturday and Sunday and summer that I spent there. I was a great student, had a part time job and did chores, but couldn't be trusted to wake up on my own. I'm sure I needed the sleep too. I'm going to remember it when she's old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Problem is then having them get up on Monday. Sleep researchers coin this “social jet lag” and it’s like flying to Europe every week. It’s not healthy...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915164815.htm

For some, it may take three to four days to get back into routine -- and by then, the school week is nearly over. But for the large majority, the weekend-related jet lag is not a big deal. Almost all teens in the study did suffer from jet lag, but a majority of them did get enough sleep during the week.

What you should take from that article is that kids need to get more sleep during the week (when many teens are staying up late to manage a high homework load), NOT that you should not let them sleep late on weekends!