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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader is allowed to stay up later than 9:00 pm.  I think 9:00 is really early for a middle schooler.[/quote]

This. Honestly, the idea of a "bedtime" for a teenager is odd to me. Mine has to get up a bit before 6am and gets to sleep when he can after activities and homework and, yes, sometimes just wasting time if he has caught up on sleep over the weekend. [/quote]

It is. I tell my 14 yo good night when I go to bed and then assume he goes to sleep at some point. If not, oh well, he’ll be tired the next day. He’s usually asleep between 9:30 and 10 from what he tells me but he really doesn’t have a “bedtime”. [/quote]

how can you feel good about this? bc he's 14 he no longer needs parenting? ugh, this is what's wrong with this generation -- shitty parents. [/quote]

Huh.  NP.  So my 14 year old kid gets up at 630am to be out the door by about 720am.  He walks to school.  Our practice is the phone goes away at 9pm (both turns off and needs to be charging downstairs) and he's expected to be in his room doing something quietly.  Sometimes that's sleeping.  Sometimes he's not tired and he reads a book.  Sometime he re-organizes his closet or just messes around in his room.  Whatever just be quiet.

I don't think a 14 year old needs a strict lights out bed time like a little kid needs and in fact, I think that's weird.  Do you want someone turning out the light and making you lay there if you're not tired yet?  At what age does the kid get any agency?[/quote]
14 yr olds are not mature enough to understand the ramifications of not having enough sleep.

By 16 or 17, they should have a better understanding, especially if they are planning to go to college away from home. They need to start taking responsibility about their sleep. But, 14 is still too young.

- parent of 19 at college and a 15 yr old.[/quote]

I love signing with the age of your kids, as if that gives you proper authority and you are laying down facts.

Sorry don't agree and a 14 year old doesn't need a strict lights out bed time like a preschooler.  If you set the stage for them to make good choices, they will and they won't have to lie in the dark wide awake wondering when their overbearing parents will go away.[/quote]

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