Sleeping In On the Weekends

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Usually 8-8:30, occasionally he’ll stay in bed til 9-ish but he’s normally awake by 8. He doesn’t stay up crazy late though, usually 10-11.

[Anonymous]

Adult and I easily sleep that late or later.

[Anonymous]

I make them get up at 10.

They don’t currently have any activities in the mornings, but in the fall, they have some that require much earlier wake up times. I cut them a break otherwise.

[Anonymous]

I let them sleep if they are doing their homework and chores and getting to their activities. Otherwise no.

[Anonymous]

If sports, will wake them, but otherwise, let them sleep! 11-12 sounds about right, 14 and 17 year old.

Curious, not trying to pick a fight, why would you wake them if they need the sleep?

[Anonymous]

13 year old sleeps until about 11am, getting about 13 hours of sleep. She’s grown 5 inches in the last 16 months.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:13 year old sleeps until about 11am, getting about 13 hours of sleep. She’s grown 5 inches in the last 16 months.

My 14 yr old DS will sleep probably until noon but I wake him up at 11am to give him his meds (for ADHD). He is tiny so I let him sleep as much as he wants unless we have somewhere to go. He has grown 3 inches in the last 10-11 months and the doctor was thrilled with that.

[Anonymous]

Somewhere between 8 and 9.

[Anonymous]

Never happens bc of sports.

[Anonymous]

My 13 year old wakes up around 6 like he does every day. I wish he would sleep later!

[Anonymous]

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.

I agree too...and I'm not a late sleeper. I normally am up at 4am during the week for work, so my sleeping in until 7:30 is soooo nice. Besides my kids have weekends where they're up at 6am for sporting events, so the ones they can sleep in, I let them.