DangerMouse17 Thu 20-Sep-18 23:10:25
Can always count on Rebecca36 to arrive with the voice of wisdom hmm
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Well maybe not, I didn't mean any harm but honestly I never made a big thing out of bedtime. I only give my opinion but not advice.
When I was a child I had to go to bed early (can't really remember what time when I was 12 but it wasn't late), I'd hear my parents come up just after eleven and I was always wide awake until after they had retired. I used to read and such like and had a little radio that I put on very quietly, under the covers, listening to all sorts of music into the night.
I could have done some of that downstairs!
My child used to stay up late too, it would have been pointless sending him off to bed as he would have got up (we tried). He's an adult now, working in a profession that he loves. Sometimes when he is working at his home he stays up all night - says he is more creative then - and flakes out the next morning but he is a responsible person, meets deadlines, appointments etc.
My husband, bless him, went to bed early as a child and when he started work, would fall asleep in the evening after dinner in front of the TV if he wasn't going out. He still does that! We're all different.
All I was trying to say, really, is that children are individuals and we have to be flexible. What suits one child doesn't suit another.
The op's daughter may just be going through a phase, as they/we do.