Sleeping in/late

[Anonymous]

If you don't need your child to wake up at a set time, how late do you allow them to sleep in. Would it depend on what time they went to bed?

[Anonymous]

If they don't need to wake up, I'd let them sleep. Why not?

[Anonymous]

If I don't need them to get up at a specific time, and they aren't inconveniencing me by still being asleep, one they are old enough to sort out their own meals I don't have a specific time I get them up. I would probably just let them sleep. Unless it was becoming a pattern of frequently wasting entire days away in bed, then that might require some examination.

I wouldn't want someone else to make me get up for no reason if I determined I was able to sleep in that day without neglecting obligations or inconveniencing anyone, so why would I do that to my older children?

Young kids are different, I think, because the family schedule is so dependent on them that they can throw the entire day off for everyone and that's just not alright.

[Anonymous]

DD12 can sleep as late as she'd like.

[Anonymous]

my parents made me get up by 9. I imagine I'll let mine sleep till 9/10. right now it doesn't matter since they are always up by 7.

[Anonymous]

I don't wake mine up unless there is a reason.

[Anonymous]

Why wake them?

[Anonymous]

Look at the research, they need to sleep a lot when they are growing.

[Anonymous]

I let mine sleep as late as they like, if they have no reason to get up.

[Anonymous]

10 or 11 on weekends.
If they need more sleep they can go to bed at 7pm

[Anonymous]

As late as they want if they don't have something else they need to wake up in time for.

We don't do rules for the sake of rules, and I don't see why a specific time they have to get up would be necessary unless there's some reason for them to actually need to be up then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the research, they need to sleep a lot when they are growing.

The research also says they need "regular" sleep habits. So do we.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they don't need to wake up, I'd let them sleep. Why not?

+1
I try to clear our weekend mornings completely so our DS can sleep as late as he needs to. He has to wake up at 5:30am M-F for high school, so he definitely needs to catch up on his sleep when he can. I would never wake him up for no reason.

[Anonymous]

As late as she wants. It is usually around 10:30 on weekends but it has been as late as 12:30pm a few times. There is a small window in life when you can sleep in and teens need that sleep anyway.

And it doesn't mess her up on the weekdays. She sleeps 10-7am Sun-Thurs. Weekday nights she can stay up until midnight and even longer with sleepovers.

[Anonymous]

My 16 year old has to wake up at 5 am during the week. He leaves at 5:45 am. He usually goes to bed after homework and dinner, but he is exhausted. On the weekends, sometimes he sleeps until 1 pm. I make him wake up after that.