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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I am a pp with a son that goes to bed at 10:30.  Sorry mine doesn't play video games-he is not allowed to play at all during the school week.  His phone is downstairs with ours.  He is in theater twice a week-he has rehearsal twice a week 6-9 pm, he is on the tennis team-one night a week and Sat afternoons, religious school, Jazz band-Wed nights lesson at 8:30.  In the fall he runs track and plays flag football...we just got his progress report..." pleasure to have in class"  "excellent effort" positive attitude"  "conscientious worker" He is on honor roll.  So once again, until we see  problem, he can take the lead on his bedtime.  We are very proud of him-he is doing great and is a sweet kid.  We have two other boys, one of which puts himself to bed at 7:30 on nights he is home (he is 9) and our youngest at age 6 is asleep at 8:30 but we rarely have to tell him to go to bed-he will say "I need a rest" and he is out.  Some kids are night owls.  My sixth grader is an introvert and I suspect he likes having the house "himself".  What works for one family simply doesn't for another.  The key is figuring out what works for your particular family and even particular child.[/quote]

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