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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 16 , 14 and 12 year old.  I (dad) do bedtime every night that they need to wake up early in the morning.  That includes school nights , games in the morning, early flight for vacation....ect.  I'm have always been the disciplinarian in the family.  When they were younger it was an issue, but now they just understand it is easier to do what I say the first time.  Bedtime is the easiest part of the day for our family.[/quote]

What do you "do" for bedtime at these ages? I feel like OP must have been asking about small children who need to be ushered through the bath-pajama-teeth brushing-stories routine.

With my 12yo, I say "it's getting late, better get to bed," and she gets ready for bed. Most nights I don't even tell her when to go to bed, she just finishes her homework and music practice, makes her lunch for the next day, and gets to bed as early as she can manage. She knows she'll be tired the next day if she doesn't.

If I tried to "do" a bedtime routine now, I can only imagine the eye-rolling... [/quote]
I have an 11 & 8 year old and I tell them it's time to take a shower (but I wouldn't call that part of "doing" bedtime) and then either they brush their teeth or I remind them to brush (50-50 success rate, at this point) then I read to both kids. I hope I don't get eye-rolls for the reading for a long time; I really enjoy it. [/quote]

DP. My dad "did" bedtime for us when we were the first PP's kids' ages. It consisted in sitting up until we were done with our homework and making sure we got to bed at a reasonable hour. We were probably the most well-rested kids in high school.

He didn't actually "do" anything other than enforce a reasonable bedtime.[/quote]

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