Do you care what time your teen wakes up on weekends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom used to wake me up by 9am playing a bugle. It's seriously one of my worst memories of her and pisses me off to this day. She had this policy even on the summers I spent at her house while I was in college. I was always a good daughter, student and did all the chores she wanted, so it was ridiculous that I couldn't sleep in on the weekend. In high school, I had to be at the bus stop at 5:55 am and always felt sleep deprived no matter what I did.

I'm surprised you never learned to set an alarm.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom used to wake me up by 9am playing a bugle. It's seriously one of my worst memories of her and pisses me off to this day. She had this policy even on the summers I spent at her house while I was in college. I was always a good daughter, student and did all the chores she wanted, so it was ridiculous that I couldn't sleep in on the weekend. In high school, I had to be at the bus stop at 5:55 am and always felt sleep deprived no matter what I did.

I spit out my coffee at this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

Mine sleep till noon or 1 unless they have specific plans. And - gasp - yes they stay up late playing video games on the weekends. Would you prefer rhey be smoking weed behind the high school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

Mine sleep till noon or 1 unless they have specific plans. And - gasp - yes they stay up late playing video games on the weekends. Would you prefer rhey be smoking weed behind the high school?

Id rather them smoke weed behind the high school and go to bed by midnight than play video games all day and night until 4am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

[Anonymous]

Can your mom lend me the bugle? All my kids have to be up at 8am every day. When they pay the bills in their homes they will have earned the right to sleep as long as they want. We make our children so lazy by catering to their every preference. Who cares what time they want to wake up? No one likes to follow someone else's rules and yet self-discipline is the only path to success for those of us not born rich.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

Haha. When does this start? My 11DD is awake by 7:30am

[Anonymous]

Teens are 16 and 18. 18 year old was always up at 6 am as a youngster. 16 year old used to be up at 5am, every single morning. 18 year old now sleeps until 10 or 11, 16 year old now sleeps till 2 pm on weekende.

Where in the pandemic, they are doing great with their distance learning school, why would I care if they sleep late on weekends? As long as they're meeting their obligations, let them sleep!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

Haha. When does this start? My 11DD is awake by 7:30am

When is bedtime? Has she hit a growth spurt? My DS was a bit of a late bloomer so he started sleeping later around age 12 or 13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can your mom lend me the bugle? All my kids have to be up at 8am every day. When they pay the bills in their homes they will have earned the right to sleep as long as they want. We make our children so lazy by catering to their every preference. Who cares what time they want to wake up? No one likes to follow someone else's rules and yet self-discipline is the only path to success for those of us not born rich.

Deciding when you kids should be up and waking them is the opposite of encouraging self-discipline

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

...and they do best on a routine/schedule. Don't know why you think they don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

...and they do best on a routine/schedule. Don't know why you think they don't.

My baby was on his own schedule until about a year or so. Why are DCUMs so controlling?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

I let my son stay up later on weekends but he goes to bed by 11:30 or so. He regularly sleeps until noon. Teenagers are like babies. They are growing a lot! That requires tons of sleep (and food!)

...and they do best on a routine/schedule. Don't know why you think they don't.

My baby was on his own schedule until about a year or so. Why are DCUMs so controlling?

Sorry you were a slave to your baby. I hope, at some point, you were able to implement a routine, not to be controlling because everyone does better when they know what to expect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some kids are sleeping until 1pm! Are they up until wee hours on electronics?

Pre Covid they had sports until 7 homework till 11.

Yes of course they stay up late on the weekends they are not toddlers. They need to catchup on sleep so they not only sleep till 1 they nap at 4 .😂