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Appropriate bed time - 13 year old

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NeverFastAlwaysFurious · 06/11/2024 22:55

We go to bed at 9. Sometimes before to watch a film or doom scroll. We are up extra early. DD says she cannot possibly go to bed at this time too and has set herself a bed time of 10. However I've just heard her getting in to bed now and she was fucking about not actually in bed so could have been a midnight bedtime on a school night. She wakes up at 7 to get ready for school and it's 50/50 as to whether she is cheery or the devil. She is never spritely. I forget, at my age, whether spritely in the morning was ever actually a thing. So I've given her a stern word and said we'll have a chat tomorrow about appropriate bed times and strict rules. She has friends who go later and who go earlier.

So, 13 years old and up at 7am - when is bedtime?

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FinallySleep · 06/11/2024 23:09

It depends! In an ideal world 9 ish for mine on school nights. However, he has an activity which finishes late twice a week and can't get to bed til after 10:30 on those nights! He also has a late activity on a Friday night :(

DelilahBucket · 06/11/2024 23:06

9pm settled in room no devices or TV at that age. DS was always told he can read if he isn't tired. He's nearly 17 now and controls his own bed time. He settles for the night by 10:30 on a week night but doesn't necessarily go straight to sleep. Up at anywhere between 6:30 and 7:30 depending on his college timetable. Never tired and always up to his alarm. Even on a weekend he rarely sleeps beyond 8.

whenwhenwhen · 06/11/2024 23:00

Here it is 9.00pm in their bedrooms, settling.

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