If you had an early rising child....

[Mallowmarshmallow]

Did they do the whole teenage sleeping in until late thing?

I can count on two hands (or maybe one) the amount of times my DS (7) has slept until 6am or later. His body clock seems really fixed so regardless of bedtime/activity levels/food/levels of excitement, he has always woken early.

In fact, he had an asthma attack a couple of years ago and we were in hospital until about 3am. We came home and slept and he still woke at 5.30.

I'm wondering if this is it forever, or if I should still be holding out for teenage lie ins....?

(If it's useful context, myself and my DB experience terrible sleep as adults although I think slept fairly well as children....)

My 22yo always woke at 5am until she started full time school. She then made it to 6am.
Throughout her teens she was up by 8am on weekends unlike my other teens who needed persuasion at 1pm to get up!
She has been known to stay in bed until 10am after a night out and after getting home at 3am drunk .

Mine wasn't that early a riser, but got up at 6.45 on the dot for many years. In the last lockdown he turned 17 and also started lying in later but he's still always up by about 8.30, so not a stereotypical teenage lie-in.

Yes my 13 year old used to start the day at 5:30. Now on a weekend we are lucky to see him before 12.

Yup. The never sleeping for more than 22 minutes baby grew into the eyes snapping open and not shutting again for 19 hours at the sound of the thought of a fart through two closed doors at 3.37am child, into the only rouseable by bacon 13 year old.

My 14yr old is still up by 9am on a Saturday.

My 17 year old thought the day began between 4.30 and 5.30am from the age of 3 to the age of 7. At 7, 7 am became the new 5.30am. She stuck with 7 am till she turned 13 years old, but now she only really sleeps till 10 am the weekend. Week days she is up and out the house by 7 am to catch the train to college.

I was an early rising young child and into adulthood this has remained. No longer 5.30am anymore haha but I am definitely awake, washed, dressed and ready for my day by 8am, weekdays and weekends. Anything passed 8.30am in bed I consider a lay in! 😂 I wish I could sleep in, but I just physically can't

19 yo DS can sleep all day if allowed. He was always a sleeper as a baby/child though. Had to be woken at 8am. Doesn't hear general house noise at all.

18 yo DS who has ADHD was always a good sleeper (with a very set routine) but an early riser at anything from 6-7am. Still wakes earlier than the others now. About 8-9am ish regardless of what time he went to bed. Even if laying Xbox till 2am.

14 yo DS3 will sleep as long as the house is quiet. But if DS2 wakes early then we're all awake as he has no concept of sound limitation. DS3 is much more perceptive of things happening in the house than DS1 but also can take a random nap in the day if he feels like it.

In general though we can all manage a lie in say on a Sunday morning till 9:30 or 10.

Yes. My son rarely made it to 6am growing up. He's 17 now and is frequently the first one up at 7, even on weekends. My consolation is at least now I don't have to get up to make him breakfast!

No. Mine's still awake by 7 most days,though now he has a phone he doesn't get up.

I am an early rising person. I am always up by 6 and that's been the way it is my whole life. I never did the whole teenage sleep thing either, though I do remember feeling knackered throughout my teen years so perhaps I should have!

Interested in these responses as my two are always awake by 6 at the very latest, usually the first to get up is closer to 5.15.
Although I never was a hugely late riser pre children, I do sometimes think wistfully of an 8/9am lie in at the weekend!
My neighbours have set a rule that their teens must be up and getting fresh air by lunchtime which seems alien to me with a toddler and baby

No teenage lie ins here, sleep has never been their priority, however as teenagers it is fine. It means they virtually never complain about being up for school and on the weekend they lurk in their bedroom 'revising' but we can make plans for the day factoring in an early start. Around 7 or 8 we started letting them get up and have some cereal and their choice of TV show in the morning on the weekend which buys you an extra half an hour in bed.

Once they are old enough to get up quietly, get their own breakfast and stick the telly on or whatever its not a problem as such and certainly means no bother getting them up for school. The difficulty we've had is that we also have a teen who likes to lie in and back in the days when we would all go out together at weekends it was frustrating for the one who'd been up for hours when the other was still in bed at 11.

My 12 yo dd is still up at 6 but makes the packed lunches and sorts the dogs so it's actually a bonus

Yes, mine feeds the cats, stops them bothering us.

I never went through the teenage sleeping-till-noon stage - I'd wake up at 8 or so at the weekend as a teen. Now I'm an early riser, and like a pp, wake up early no matter what time I go to bed or how tired I am.

I have 3 young teens: One is a 'typical teen' and sleeps in late, has to be dragged up for school etc
One's idea of a lie-in in 8am (he's only just 13 so that may change).
One sleeps until 8-9 at the weekend.

It does feel very different when you don't have to get up and look after them though (even if like me, you are up early anyway, you can come round gently with a coffee and the news).

11 year old. 630 is a lie-in.

We are only just in the teens but have extended to 8am some weekends. (From 5.30 forever)

16 yo was always a horribly early riser (6am was good - as a baby it would often be earlier) but since about 13/14 he's turned into the typical teen and is able to sleep in til midday if he wants to. Recently he's actually getting up earlier through choice and obviously when having to go to school he's up at 7. We still have a 9yo too and he has to get up early to go to school so his body clock is pretty set & no chance he won't be up before 7 on the weekend..

Yes. Early riser (6am) until around age 10, gradually got later and now at 13 he can sleep until 11am at the weekends.
We had a running joke where I'd say one day you're going to love long lies and he'd go 'nevaaaah' , all dramatic. I was right .

My excellent sleeper got even better at sleeping in their teens and still in their mid twenties can sleep until lunchtime.
My other two weren't really early risers as such but always had poor sleep patterns. Neither of them sleep late ; if they aren't up and about by 9.00 on any day of the week it is very unusual.