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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not what you asked, but please reconsider. Teens that age need 8-10 hours of sleep a night. Unless your child can routinely fall asleep before 8:00 at night, they aren’t going to be able to get that and will go through some of the most critical years of their life sleep deprived.

I did this for swimming as a teenager and it was a horrible mistake. The chronic sleep deprivation affected my mental health and academic performance in ways that still hurt me now as an adult, even though at the time I appeared to be doing great.[/quote]

NP. Kids need sleep. But if your kid is serious about swimming, they will go to bed before 8 every night.  If your kid can’t commit to doing that, then they aren’t going to do well in swimming anyway, so you may as well stay in the afternoons. [/quote]

I’m the previous poster who regrets morning practices. There was no way I could have gotten to bed by 8 after getting back from evening practice and then doing homework. Most serious swimmers who do morning practice are doing doubles (2x a day workouts) and if they’re taking a typical DCUM load of difficult HS classes, there is little time for sleep.

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Not all kids need huge amounts of sleep.  Mine does not.  I regret not allowing them to do AM swim thinking they couldn't handle it.  We let them do it over the summer and they did great.[/quote]

All kids need lots of sleep. Definitely check with your pediatrician.

I think AM practices are fine as long as the kid is going to bed early. I also think this needs to be kid-driven, not coach or parent driven. [/quote]

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