AIBU to refuse a Year 9 staying up for the 1am match?

My DS is also Y9. Of course he's watching it and so are all his friends. On Monday he has lessons for 3 subjects he is dropping next week anyway (not doing for GCSE) plus PE. But even if it was maths and English, they're about to start the GCSE course and anything covered now will be repeated umpteen times before the exams anyway. Y9 is the perfect year to have a late night!

I think it’s unkind to stop him. If he’s tired he’s tired. So be it. It’s not like he’s driving or performing heart surgery the next day. He’s a child who is interested in a national sporting event. What would you rather he was interested in?

11 hours of sleep at 14???

He's 14 and needs 11 hoursof sleep!!?

Let him watch it. He will be knackered for one day it’s not the end of the world. He will go to bed early the next night and be fine by Tuesday.

A bank holiday at less than a weeks notice would have been a nightmare- people have work planned/ meetings / appointments etc. Rejiggljng it at short notice would have been very difficult. Tourist attractions likely wouldn’t have enough staff and supplies for a bank holiday.
what if you had a much waited for doctors appointment, would you be happy to have that moved

I would have had the same dilemma when mine were that age. We’re not a football family by any means so it would just have been to keep up with peers. But I think that’s a good enough reason on this occasion.

Definitely no to calling in sick. There will be others whose parents made them go to school so they can be miserable/celebrate together.

Looks like FIFA U-Turned on moving the match and it is back to original kick off.

Slowly backs out if thread

Why not go to bed at 7pm and get up at 3:30am, watch the game then go to school?
Why don't all of you do that, make an event of it that way? Breakfast, snacks, juice, coffee etc???

Not a decision I have to make as my children are not interested in watching football, only the results 😆

That said, some of their friends are staying up to watch it but have said they are going to bed early Sunday, setting their alarm for the match and then a quick few hours kip after. Still going to school on time the next morning.

We are a football loving household but we’re not staying up for it. I have to leave for work at 7am year 9 DS has to leave for school at 8am. No, he’s not having the day off.

We’re going to bed at normal time, recording it and getting up 90 mins early to watch it before getting ready.

Two things:

There will be loads of kids and adults fully intent on staying up to watch it that fall asleep before it starts or who turn off their 12.55am alarm.

They have kept the kick off time as it was originally intended but there are still storms predicted so there is a good chance it doesn’t even kick off at 1am.

Of course let him ! It's a one off ! He will feel very bitter towards you if you stop him and he won't forget this moment.

Prepare for:

have school bag ready and clothes laid out night before
have a to go breakfast prepared the night before that can be eaten on way to school
shower/bath night before
go to bed earlier than normal and wake up at kick off time
go to sleep after and wake up 10-15 before needing to leave house. Get dressed, brush teeth, pick up bag and breakfast and eat on the journey

It's a pain in the arse and the government (who I support) should have just made it a bank holiday. As a teacher it's going to be a shitty day with high absences, lots of lateness and lots of overtired kids. And absence figures will go to the DfE as usual, because that's totally fair after encouraging people to be up all night in pubs. Can't wait.

My kids are older now but I would have let them stay up though - he'll manage through the day and can crash when he gets home.

No it hasn’t.

Since when?

Again? I thought they moved in briefly and then swiftly moved it back again

It hasn’t.

I would make him go to bed at 7pm with no devices, and keep checking on him that he is asleep. Then his dad can wake him at 1am if he’s staying up himself. But only if he’s actually had a few hours sleep. Then yes, up at 6am as usual.

I would say early bed but then yes he can get up quietly for the match (but I wouldn’t be watching so it would be on him to wake up), but he’s going to school at normal time.

Luckily for him, the time of the match has moved to 7pm BST

I'd get him to go to bed early, and set an alarm for 1am so he can get up and watch it then. If at 1am he doesn't want to get out of bed then great. Id be inclined to make him go to school but it is just one morning so phoning in sick isn't the end of the world either.

He can easily have 6-7 hours sleep which isn’t horrendous as a one off. Send him to bed early, by 8:30 pm. He can then get in some sleep before you wake him up at 12:30am. Then back to bed straight after the match for another 3 hours, if you can let him lie in a bit longer and skip any of his morning routine as a one off even better. One bad nights sleep isn’t going to do him that much harm, early to bed again Monday night and he’ll be fine by Tuesday.

@MantleStatue Is a last 16 World Cup match “a pretty special event” on a par with the moon landing? I don’t think so. If it was the final, or even a semi final, I’d say definitely let the kids stay up for it, but too much is being made of this imo, and I’m a fan.

YABU OP. Stop being a fun sponge, it’s a one-off event.