For those whose teens go to bed very late….
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Anonymous
| Netflix |
Anonymous
| I shutdown WiFi at 10 and limit access to texting and other phone apps so in order to avoid resting, lots of FaceTiming with friends. Sometimes it gets super loud because she feels “inspired” to redecorate (again because no screen time) |
Anonymous
mine too. they also do homework and chatting in groups. 
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Anonymous
| Mine is furiously texting friends about the latest “tea” or FaceTiming. |
Anonymous
| You can’t enforce an older teen bedtime. |
Anonymous
I gave up on this right before he turned 16. A few months later, he still hasn't figured out that staying up late means he is tired during the day. But he has started drinking coffee in the morning. Problem solved I guess. |
Anonymous
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Um..what were you doing behind closed doors at that age...
It doesn't take much imagination...let them have their "me" time. I just don't let mine (both under 14) have internet connected devices behind closed doors, no matter the time of day. |
Anonymous
Let them have their me time but not really. Um, okay. |
Anonymous
Then open the bedroom door...then have devices... |
Anonymous
| Homework, reading, YouTube, cleaning her room, making smoothies. |
Anonymous
| Mine play multiple sports and have various other activities. By 10 they are doing homework that didn’t get done earlier, eating, and unwinding (tv mostly...sometimes reading, drawing or guitar). |
Anonymous
How do you know? |
Anonymous
You have a very limited imagination. They do the same things they normally do during the day at home, except for maybe blaring music without headphones or instrument practice. |
Anonymous
I guess I do have a limited imagination in this sense. But it does feel different to me. I’m thinking about when the time comes that they want to stay up later than me and my spouse. My kids are usually all over the house, watching tv in the living room, doing artwork in the basement, reading in the dining room, running to the backyard with the dogs, getting food in the kitchen. They aren’t the type to wander around once the house is “asleep” and we don’t let them have phones in their room at night yet. They are naturally early risers and haven’t fought us on the bedtime (we do let them read it listen to music until they are tired, it’s not a strict lights out, but they don’t usually stay up super late). If your kids stay up later than you, do they make sure the doors are locked and all the lights are out before going to bed? Do they tend to stay in their room? If they stay up many hours past dinner do they get hungry again? I do sound naive, but I’m just trying to think about the near future, I know the earlier bedtime won’t be forever. |
Anonymous
| *or listen to music* |