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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

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Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

Why not?

If you think it's OK for a 14 YO to be up and on electronics all night, even during their short 2-week Christmas break, I seriously hope you're not a parent.

Oh I am a parent of 3 teens. The youngest is 14. Yes this happens in our house during school breaks. It is no different than sleepovers where they are doing the same thing.

Sleepovers are not everyday events. They also disrupt kids moods and attention the next day, which is not a good thing. Fine, just admit that you're cool with your 14 YO staying up all night talking/ interacting with god knows who online, and sleeping away the next day. It's easy enough for you to look the other way and hope/ pretend nothing is wrong with this.

Anonymous wrote:Y'all have screen zombies and you just don't care.

My teen sleeps in til 10:30-11 whenever she can after a late night reading a book.

Y'all have screen zombies and you just don't care.

You don't have to wake up super early or anything, but you can't sleep in that late. It's not at all because I think kids need to be busy or productive all the time, I just wouldn't want them to waste their vacation sleeping. That goes for summer too.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

Why not?

If you think it's OK for a 14 YO to be up and on electronics all night, even during their short 2-week Christmas break, I seriously hope you're not a parent.

Oh I am a parent of 3 teens. The youngest is 14. Yes this happens in our house during school breaks. It is no different than sleepovers where they are doing the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

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This. I’ll never understand people like some of the prior posters who need to control the household’s wake up times just because.

I don't control when they go to sleep or when they wake up. I just don't allow them unlimited access to electronics all night long, so their sleep patterns are pretty normal. I actually like spending time with my kids, so if they sleep all morning and part of the afternoon, that really eats into that. Some of you seem relieved not to have to interact with them!

No one on this thread implied anything of the sort. You have issues.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

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This. I’ll never understand people like some of the prior posters who need to control the household’s wake up times just because.

I don't control when they go to sleep or when they wake up. I just don't allow them unlimited access to electronics all night long, so their sleep patterns are pretty normal. I actually like spending time with my kids, so if they sleep all morning and part of the afternoon, that really eats into that. Some of you seem relieved not to have to interact with them!

Pretty typical. Try to get them to sleep earlier. At most I’d allow it a few days but not every day - usually mine will make plans to do something on the earlier side some days and once she gets up earlier it’ll self correct some bc she will be tired on little sleep and go to bed earlier

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

Why not?

If you think it's OK for a 14 YO to be up and on electronics all night, even during their short 2-week Christmas break, I seriously hope you're not a parent.

Poster with the 15 yo and do you ever let them go to sleepovers? Do you care if they stay up all night then? What’s the difference if they stay up all night when they are together or when they are virtually together if it’s on vacation?

Let mine sleep. They are exhausted normally.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

Why not?

If you think it's OK for a 14 YO to be up and on electronics all night, even during their short 2-week Christmas break, I seriously hope you're not a parent.

But you didn’t answer PP’s question: why not? If they don’t have a schedule and are getting enough sleep what is the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

DP and this describes my 15 yo. I don’t see anything wrong with it. But I frequently stayed up all night watching tv or on the phone and slept during the day if we didn’t have plans. My parents never woke me up just because and certainly didn’t enforce a teen bed time tv off time.

Same. My 15yo does this sometimes. Fine with me.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

DP and this describes my 15 yo. I don’t see anything wrong with it. But I frequently stayed up all night watching tv or on the phone and slept during the day if we didn’t have plans. My parents never woke me up just because and certainly didn’t enforce a teen bed time tv off time.

Anonymous wrote:On breaks, I don’t care about my kids’ sleep schedules or how late they sleep unless we they need to be somewhere earlier in the AM. That said, I ask for reasonable level of quiet after 10PM especially on weeknights- DH and I often need to be up early.

Same. Also, the phone situation is different for a 13/14 yr old than a 16/17 yr old. I stopped requiring the phone to be off when my kid was 15 or so. The rule was that if he was ever late to leave for school at 6:40, I'd have to change the phone rules. It only happened once.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the holidays. As long as they get back on schedule before school starts. NBD.

+1

Same sleep is good. Just let the kid be.

No one needs 10+ hrs of sleep. Lazy

Teens in the midst of a growth spurt do. Teen boy goes through phases where he eats a ton and sleeps until noon during vacation and then seems to have grown over the course of a couple days because his isn’t a seem to be once again too short.

Agree. But they don’t need to be gaming or FaceTiming until 3 or 4 am and then sleeping all morning. Especially not a 14 YO.

Be a parent OP.

Why not?

If you think it's OK for a 14 YO to be up and on electronics all night, even during their short 2-week Christmas break, I seriously hope you're not a parent.