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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now is the perfect time to get rid of the bedtime. He needs to learn to self-regulate and figure out how to go to bed at a reasonable time in order to get up for school. A good punishment for oversleeping/missing school would be the loss of car privileges. Make him take the bus or arrange his own ride.

I'm a professor and so many freshmen miss and skip morning classes because they go from monitored bedtimes and curfews to total freedom.

I would also stop the electronics off at 10 pm and phone in the kitchen rule. Again, he needs to learn to self-regulate without rules in order to be successful and productive in college. [/quote]

Natural consequences of consistency being late to school is loss of car privileges and making them ride the bus/figure out how to get there themselves.

HS should be a process where you gradually give your kids more and more responsibilities and you "control their lives" less and less.  You want them to learn how to do this successfully while you are still around, not while they are living in a dorm where "everyone sleeps in and misses classes just because" [/quote]

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