How late do you let your teenagers...

[buddy&wooz]

I consider her to be an important member of the family, so she has her meals with us and spends time with us. She is an honor student, outstanding musician, successful academically and socially. The kids I know who sleep until the afternoon seem to live in their own worlds and not do so well. I cannot think of any good reason for a kid to be up all hours of the night.

Your daughter sounds like my son. Except I let him sleep as late as he wants unless he has to be somewhere.

He stays up late reading, listening to music, watching TV, and yes, even surfing the internet. But he also has dinner with us each night, spends time playing with his younger brother in the afternoons, and comes along when we visit relatives... fully a participant in family stuff. I don't really see what the hours he keeps have to do with it ?

If there's good reason, I get him up. Otherwise- sleeping in is one of the benefits of the age, IMO.

 

[ozarkmom]

DS 19 goes to bed anywhere from 1 am - 6 am and gets up anywhere from 6 am - 3pm. It depends what friends he has over and what he has planned for the next day. I could never stay up all night and sleep most of the day, but sometimes teenagers do! I think they are nocturnal...LOL

My goodness that sounds like our house! 19 yr old ds is home for the summer and some nights his friends come over and they're up til 6 a.m. If ds doesn't have to be at work or run errands for me I really don't care how late he sleeps. DD almost 16 loves to sleep but is usually up by noon. Again that's if she does't have to work. DS 14 has football practice so he's up pretty early on those days but he's not an up all night sleep all day kid. I just wish I could sleep a little later.