Also he isn't going out of the house. He's hardly been outside since they broke up from school. He came camping with us and enjoyed that and also a day at an NT place, Hadrian's wall. But apart from that h'e's on his computer. He is reading a bit too but I'm worried that he's not mixing with friends. He's so funny and popular at school but doesn't mix out of school.
Maybe it's a phase? He doesn't laugh as much nowadays either 
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DS1 is going to bed very late and sleeping very late.
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CuriousMama · 22/08/2012 14:14
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3teenhell ·
22/08/2012 15:47
curious, i have switched off whole laptop not just wifi. i did it through the control panel on the lap top. Think it was in user accounts. My DS is not an administrator so he can't change it back. I edited his account and it has parental controls. On here you can limit when lap top will and won't turn on.
Last night his laptop switched itself off at 9pm he was overjoyed not impressed but i keep going on about lack of time away so now have enforced it. He thinks i am a control freak i think i am a parent who cares enough to do something about it.
He has actually gone to the park today whilst his laptop wasn't working 
CuriousMama ·
22/08/2012 20:39
I know I shouldn't worry. I suppose it's because ds2 is always out and about and dp and I like to be out at the allotment or walking, that I feel it'd be good for him to be out more.
He got up after 5pm today!
He's going to play scrabble with ds2 and me soon so he says? Plus he's keen to go camping again so that's a good sign 
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CuriousMama ·
22/08/2012 23:49
Oh I'm not battling with him at all. He's good natured. He grunts a bit but I think he puts a lot of that on to wind me up 
He's top nationally in English and top in most of his other subjects too so I'm not worried about him academically at all. I suppose I was worried he was depressed as it runs in the family.
Tonight we played Scrabble together and had a good laugh. I helped ds2 though so ds1 came last. He found that funny. If it'd been just me and ds2 playing I'd have gone easy but I couldn't with ds1 
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wednesdaygirl ·
23/08/2012 08:44
My god!!!!!
Thought it was just mine
Ds2 is 15 and since hols has stayed in his room with blackout curtains all day
He admitted to going to sleep at about 4am and sleeps a full 12 hrs at least
We went to spain for 2wks in july and i dont think he saw much sun he stayed in bed sleeping or on his ipod on the wifi
We have now taken the ipod off him at 11.30pm and have said he must sleep at proper times were on day 2 today and yesterday he was up at lunch time x
CuriousMama ·
23/08/2012 13:53
He's still in bed today and I had hoped he'd be up earlier as he'd promised to go up to bed before sunrise 
We're all out for tea and a movie tomorrow night (movie cafe) so he'll have to be up then!
Good luck to your ds1 wednesdaygirl. I think ds2 will be more like him he's always up early.
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awbless ·
23/08/2012 21:25
I work in a college. We started enrolment today and I lost count of the numbers of parents who said "he's just got up!" and this was in the late afternoon session.
We are not alone
CuriousMama ·
24/08/2012 23:14
DS1 got up just before 1 today. Dp had a go at him last night about still being on the computer. So he went to bed at 3am instead of 5 or 6. This afternoon I told him it was 4pm instead of just before 1 and it made him get up early We all went out to the movie cafe to see Avengers and have tea. We had a nice time
awbless thanks for that makes me feel better.
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