Reply to Why some kids are happier now

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Why some kids are happier now"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids miss their friends and want to be at school but the big silver lining has been that my 14 yr old is well rested for the first time in years.  She is naturally a night owl, just like DH and does best when she can go to bed really late and sleep until 10am ish.  Of course, this doesn't work with school hours so she is chronically over tired. As a result, she gets sick easily and ends up missing too much school.

We've spent years trying to help her sleep better - strict "sleep hygiene" habits, white noise, no screens in evening, occasional use of melatonin, sleep studies. Ultimately, nothing works.  She lies in bed until she can fall asleep at midnight or later.  She's just like DH whose ideal sleep hours are 1am-9 or 10am.

Now, she can actually do that and she feels so much better.  She now wants to figure out how she can do work as an adult that works with her sleep schedule.  DH manages by having a WAH IT job where he doesn't have to log in until 10am for daily meeting.[/quote]

I’m exactly like your daughter and husband and have the same preferred sleep schedule. My dad is also the same way. It’s been so frustrating to be thought of as lazy all my life because I wasn’t ready to go to school at 7:00am and tired a lot of the day. I have a PhD and two Masters degrees and work full time with kids but I’m not mentally alert before 9:00am. And it’s not because we are lazy! Im much more productive now that I can sleep according to my natural circadian rhythm.[/quote]

This is my preferred schedule too (hence why I am posting here at 1:10 am after finishing up some work and before going to bed). My husband is a morning person and no longer commuting or traveling for work, so it's been working nicely to have him get up with the kids and let me stay up late working and sleep in. [b]I'm in academia and if it weren't for kids I could totally maintain this sleep schedule. I did it during grad school but not during my postdoc - longer commute and crazy workload that could only be done at the lab. But I could do it now as a faculty member, at least most of the time. [/b]I do my best thinking between 9 pm and 1 am.  [/quote]

This is nice to hear. DD (I'm the PP) has long wanted to be a professor doing science research at a university. Good to hear that it might actually be a lifestyle that also works with her sleep needs![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics