What time does your 11/12 year old kid go to sleep?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine goes to bed at 9 and some nights is asleep instantly and some nights reads. But usually goes to sleep. Ours is in middle school though and has to get up very early for school. He's up by 615/630.

+1. Our kid has the same early wake-up, so we make sure he's in bed by 8:30. Otherwise, it's a very difficult morning the next day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I laugh at this. No way middle schoolers are going to sleep at 8pm. Are your kids just hermits and have no activities or events in the evening? Are you all SAHM?

It is still light outside, kids playing/biking, and your middle schoolers are going to bed?!?! Gotta be trolls.

Very few people are saying anything in the 8pm hour. Standard answer seems to be 9 to 9:30.

As for my own kid, I offered 9 to 9:15pm and that's school nights. In the summer and on weekends, depends what else is going on but I try not to let it go past 10:30/11 just because my particular kid doesn't sleep in much.

No, most are saying between 8-9pm for their middle schoolers.

My kid plays baseball. On game nights, he's home by 8:45, and he puts himself to bed at 9. Otherwise, he's puts himself in bed by 8:30. He's already figured out that waking up at 6:30 is hard for him to do otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:At that age our kids went to bed at 9pm.

What does your child do between 9pm and 10pm?

Middle schoolers RARELY go to bed at 9pm. The amount of messages that comes through my daughters devices (plugged downstairs) from 9pm to midnight is unbelievable.

Agree. Our kids have to leave them (and all electronic devices) plugged in downstairs in the kitchen.

My 8th grader's phone is lighting up until midnight (and sometimes beyond) on school nights. IT's insane! I'm guessing the parents don't know their kids are up. The bus comes at 7:05am.

We also plug the phone in the kitchen at 9pm then head upstairs for bed time. And yes, the phone keeps going but I've noticed it's always the same kids, so not everyone is on after 9pm.

One of the kids that does it, his parents go to bed at 9pm. So he's unsupervised after 9pm.