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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for feedback.  I am an experienced host parent-- this is my 7th year-- and this is a new problem for me.  We have discussed the lateness each time it happens in the moment, but we do need to have a more formal sit-down.  There are a couple of other things that we need to tighten up.  The thing about the lateness is that he is sleeping through alarms, so I am just baffled by it.  It happened again yesterday, btw, so that's the one for this week.  Hopefully the only one for this week.

We do have a curfew (midnight before work days), but he doesn't go out before work typically.  Curfew isn't the issue.  He's almost always home and going up to his room by 9 pm.  I don't know what time he goes to sleep.  I guess I should ask.  I have never had to tell and AP what time they should go to sleep, and I don't want to do that.  And starting him earlier doesn't help me on the days when he oversleeps.  It just means he requires waking at a different time.

An additional fact here is that our house is being renovated, and the construction workers and on site and making fairly significant noise by 7:15 am every day.  I don't know how he sleeps through it, but he does. . .

I could try the alarm.  I don't know.  I think I will also ask the LCC to talk with him about this, even though our LCC is fairly useless.  Can't hurt to mention it to her.  I hate to go into rematch over this, as he's a nice kid who does well in other ways.  And I have never been through a rematch so far, so I guess I fear it a little.   [/quote]

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