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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the things I most resent about my mother’s parenting choices was how she dropped the rope when it came to bedtimes as we got older. By middle school I was staying up as late as I wanted and by high school she’d allowed a TV in my room as well - it set me up for decades of poor sleep hygiene before I realized that I couldn’t be healthy without solid stretches of restful sleep.

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+1 my mother never imposed a bedtime on me. IMO, I think she was just too tired to care. She went to bed early.   She figured I'd go to bed when I'm tired. The problem was that, as a child/teenager, I didn't always know what was good for me. I had the worse sleep habits. I have a sleep disorder, and the bad sleep habits made the disorder worse.

I didn't really fix it until I had kids. I became super diligent about my kids' sleep habits because I didn't want them to suffer like I did. So, I made sure that they went to bed at a reasonable hour since they were infants, and that they got the minimum prescribed hours of sleep per the AAP.

My kids are now older teens, and they still have good sleep habits. They say they get the most sleep out of their friends, and that I've "ruined" them for not being able to function without sleep. They are joking by saying "ruined" because they love their sleep, and unlike their peers, they want to go to bed at a reasonable time now.[/quote]

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