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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 14 year old DD just returned from spending three weeks with her older cousins in NY with some alarming ideas about screen time and schedules. Apparently, at cousins' house they would stay up chatting on phones until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. Then they would sleep until 3-4 PM in the afternoon. We have been attempting to readjust her to a more normal schedule by enforcing a 10:00 PM bedtime (phone gets taken away) getting her up at 9:00AM.[b] She insists that the alternate schedule is more normal for teens and that we are seriously messing up her social life because all of her friends start texting and hanging out on phones after 10:00 PM. [/b]

Can you share your kids' summer schedules with regard to screen time and bedtime?

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So OP, you do know that you are the parent here, right? It's your number one job to help her stay healthy and safe. And it's your teenager's sole purpose in life right now to exert as much control as possible so that she can engage in social activities. 
Continue to take the phone at 10pm. You can tell her that it's great that all the other parents let their kids stay up to 3-4am texting. Awesome. When she's able to pay for her own phone, she can have it as much as she wants. Until then, you get to set the guardrails that help her meet a need that is even more basic than connecting with friends: sleep. 
She will be fine.

--Parent of a 13.5 year old and a 18 year old. 
13 year old dd is in bed between 10-10:30pm with all screens gone.  18 year old is about to go to college.[b] He's hangs out with friends and is home by 1pm.[/b] We do not take his phone. [/quote]
It's nice that he's home by lunchtime.[/quote]

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