My 16 year old has to wake up at 5 am during the week. He leaves at 5:45 am. He usually goes to bed after homework and dinner, but he is exhausted. On the weekends, sometimes he sleeps until 1 pm. I make him wake up after that.

As late as she wants. It is usually around 10:30 on weekends but it has been as late as 12:30pm a few times. There is a small window in life when you can sleep in and teens need that sleep anyway.

And it doesn't mess her up on the weekdays. She sleeps 10-7am Sun-Thurs. Weekday nights she can stay up until midnight and even longer with sleepovers.

Anonymous wrote:If they don't need to wake up, I'd let them sleep. Why not?

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I try to clear our weekend mornings completely so our DS can sleep as late as he needs to. He has to wake up at 5:30am M-F for high school, so he definitely needs to catch up on his sleep when he can. I would never wake him up for no reason.

Anonymous wrote:Look at the research, they need to sleep a lot when they are growing.

The research also says they need "regular" sleep habits. So do we.

As late as they want if they don't have something else they need to wake up in time for.

We don't do rules for the sake of rules, and I don't see why a specific time they have to get up would be necessary unless there's some reason for them to actually need to be up then.

10 or 11 on weekends.
If they need more sleep they can go to bed at 7pm

I let mine sleep as late as they like, if they have no reason to get up.

Look at the research, they need to sleep a lot when they are growing.

Why wake them?

I don't wake mine up unless there is a reason.

my parents made me get up by 9. I imagine I'll let mine sleep till 9/10. right now it doesn't matter since they are always up by 7.

DD12 can sleep as late as she'd like.

If I don't need them to get up at a specific time, and they aren't inconveniencing me by still being asleep, one they are old enough to sort out their own meals I don't have a specific time I get them up. I would probably just let them sleep. Unless it was becoming a pattern of frequently wasting entire days away in bed, then that might require some examination.

I wouldn't want someone else to make me get up for no reason if I determined I was able to sleep in that day without neglecting obligations or inconveniencing anyone, so why would I do that to my older children?

Young kids are different, I think, because the family schedule is so dependent on them that they can throw the entire day off for everyone and that's just not alright.

If they don't need to wake up, I'd let them sleep. Why not?

If you don't need your child to wake up at a set time, how late do you allow them to sleep in. Would it depend on what time they went to bed?