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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to begin allowing your teen to regulate their own sleep patterns. If she doesn't get enough sleep on a school night at age 14+, let her learn from it before she goes to college in a few years. You can suggest she get some sleep, but enforcing a bedtime for a 15-year-old is something no parent should be doing anymore. Do you cut her meat, too?[/quote]

Honest question: what's the benefit of her having four years to regulate her own schedule before college, over, say, one year? Or one summer? Conversely, why shouldn't 10-year-olds be regulating their own sleep, or 6-year-olds?[/quote]

Dp. You are being dishonest if you don't think there is adifference in age between a 6 year old and a 10 year old or a 10 year old and a 14 year old or a 14 and an 18 year old.

You can't treat a six year old the same as a ten year old or a 14 with an 18 year old.  The idea is you give the tools of what works than when they are older and you loosen the rules they know what they should do.  Not many six year olds know this and that is why you enforce good eating habits, bedtime. Homework and exercise and limit the social media and screens.

But, you knew that right, pp?[/quote]

I hope so. Because by her faulty argument, wleavung a 6 year old alone would be treated the same as leaving a 14 year old. Or letting a six year old. [/quote]

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