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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7th grader is in bed by 8:30 and asleep NLT 9:00.  He's up at 6:00 to walk the dogs.  I also have 2 slightly younger kids who are in bed by 8:00.  I don't know why people think this is such a big deal.  Probably those who think our no-screen time during the week is also too strict.  Whatever. It works for us.  [/quote]

Sounds rationale to me! We have a rule that electronics aren't allowed in the bedroom. [/quote]

Same here.  I wonder do all these families with (IMO) super late bedtimes have their kids in lots of sports or other time-intensive after school activities?  My 6th grader is home from school no later than 3 pm, does homework, walks the dog, practices his instrument, maybe plays with a friend, has dinner, helps clean up, gets to use the tv/videogames for an hour and is ready for bed by 8:30.  Baseball season is starting up and on game nights, bedtime will get pushed to 9 often but overall it really isn't hard to get to bed by 8:30.  If you think your kid doesn't need that, fine, but saying it's too strict or too hard to do I just don't get.

Sure, he'd love to stay up until 11pm playing Minecraft if we'd let him but I don't think that's healthy.  We would let him stay up until 9pm reading in bed but he doesn't particularly like to read so he usually chooses to just go to sleep.[/quote]

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