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[quote=Anonymous]Front Seat - absolutely not, maybe at age 12 or Jr. High though.  Bedtime - I think is fine. My 10 year old DS has to be in bed by 8:30 pm and can read until 9 pm with lights out.  He has to be up by 7:30 am and does it most mornings on his own.  If you're constantly having to wake her up, then it's not early enough.  If she's always up before she needs to, then you can probably push it back some.

Screen time in our house is no computer games/xbox etc. Sunday evening through Thursday evening.  He can watch TV if his homework is done, or use the computer for school based projects/homework only.  We haven't had to set a limit on TV time right now because he has so many sports, but as he starts to drop them, I can see a time when TV time might have to be limited.  I totally get where you're coming from by banning even TV during the week hoping that will make them read, but we tried that, and it pushed DS to NEVER want to read except for he was required to do for school.  Once we stopped it, he slowly started adding a book or two in every once in a while without me asking.  Basically it's about picking your battles with this one.

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