Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a bedtime for my 14yr old. I think by that time it is time to start to self regulate. However all electronics automatically get shut off at 10pm, excluding the Kindle paperwhite. I presume my kid is asleep by 11pm. He wakes at 730. I don’t think it’s enough because I have to wake him every morning and it’s hard. I think he needs 10hrs, but i cannot force him to sleep at 930.
You can force him to go to bed at 9:30pm. Kids need time for their minds and bodies to relax.
My parents never enforced bed time, and I had sleep issues until my late late 30s.
Anonymous wrote:The parents with athletes who are letting them get less sleep are foolish. Studies show the more sleep a kid gets, the bigger and better their potential is in success at their sport. You are stifling their physical and mental growth capacity by shortchanging their sleep during these critical years.
We protect our teens' sleep at all costs: no late dinners, parties, games/practices, certainly no socializing/being on the phone late. If your kid truly prioritizes the sport they love, they should have the sense (or parents who educate them) about how critical sleep is (among other things like nutrition).
Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a bedtime for my 14yr old. I think by that time it is time to start to self regulate. However all electronics automatically get shut off at 10pm, excluding the Kindle paperwhite. I presume my kid is asleep by 11pm. He wakes at 730. I don’t think it’s enough because I have to wake him every morning and it’s hard. I think he needs 10hrs, but i cannot force him to sleep at 930.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader is allowed to stay up later than 9:00 pm. I think 9:00 is really early for a middle schooler.
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.
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”.
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.
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?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a bedtime for my 14yr old. I think by that time it is time to start to self regulate. However all electronics automatically get shut off at 10pm, excluding the Kindle paperwhite. I presume my kid is asleep by 11pm. He wakes at 730. I don’t think it’s enough because I have to wake him every morning and it’s hard. I think he needs 10hrs, but i cannot force him to sleep at 930.
Anonymous wrote:The parents with athletes who are letting them get less sleep are foolish. Studies show the more sleep a kid gets, the bigger and better their potential is in success at their sport. You are stifling their physical and mental growth capacity by shortchanging their sleep during these critical years.
We protect our teens' sleep at all costs: no late dinners, parties, games/practices, certainly no socializing/being on the phone late. If your kid truly prioritizes the sport they love, they should have the sense (or parents who educate them) about how critical sleep is (among other things like nutrition).
Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a bedtime for my 14yr old. I think by that time it is time to start to self regulate. However all electronics automatically get shut off at 10pm, excluding the Kindle paperwhite. I presume my kid is asleep by 11pm. He wakes at 730. I don’t think it’s enough because I have to wake him every morning and it’s hard. I think he needs 10hrs, but i cannot force him to sleep at 930.