Teens have gone 100% nocturnal!

[Rowawa]

Post Christmas. Cars broke. Skint. Nothing to do. Absolutely pissing it down every day so can't even go for walks.

They're literally going to sleep at 5am for the day after being up all night.

I keep waking them up and they just go back to bed/fall asleep on the couch. Ages 15, 17, 18.

Theyre going to be buggered come Monday.

I can't say much as I remember doing the same in my teen days but I feel exhausted just thinking about it.

Ds1 has always been nocturnal. His phone is handed over at 9 pm but he is usually still awake around midnight. He did manage to get up for school this morning. I hate trying to sleep with children wandering about! The other younger DC are slightly better but share a room and often spend hours blooming chatting!

Vitamin D deficiency?

People are just different.
Teenage years were definitely not the best years of my life, and I stuck mainly to a daytime schedule.
Mine is sleeping in late this week (like 2 pm) but he gets quite a lot done when he does get up, and he's not just gaming.
I am hoping he does grow out of those hours though as it's not very conducive to the working world.

Mine too (& I have two!)
Back on the Melatonin & sleep hygiene routine that slipped over Christmas.
(both are still asleep as I type, groan)

There was a really interesting radio show with Michael Moseley about sleep and the sleep expert discussed teenagers and their different circadian rhythms and the two phase sleep humans used to have. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001trnj

'doing your nut' and 'going ape shit' is a massive over reaction to cooking a few nuggets at 4am, surely 😂

I was referring to when it carries on into adulthood, rather than a teenage phase.

Mostly it doesn't
Maybe you do know a few bone idle young men compared to your perfect teenagers
But most teenagers even boys grow up.to be perfectly able adults

Mine isn't bone idle, he works very hard, just his circadian rhythm is different from mine. He has ADHD which probably doesn't help.

How do you stop it?

😂😂 sorry shouldn't laugh!!

all sounds familiar!

Mine did the same. I just went with it and certainly didn't turn the wifi off!

Good job, as it turns out, as DS1 started composing music at night and now has an unconditional place at a music uni despite having no real formal music qualifications! Turns out he was at his most creative in the early hours.

Leave them to it - you never know where it will lead...

It's normal, leave them be, they will cope on Monday and get back to early night as will be shattered (brought up three like that and I was the same,left to own devises if no work I soon slip back into it now ) 😜

Same with my teens!!

Gaming with is friends usually with mine🙄 sadly the doesn't have a musical bone in his body😂

Me too! 15 year old ds has to hand his phone over at 10pm. All our phones stay downstairs on charge.

14 year old DD has a 1 am bedtime during holidays (and its 12 if we have plans the next day) and I set her an alarm be up by 10.30. She is a total night owl, so would 100% be on electronics at 5am if I let her but ... I don't let her. DD is always telling me I'm way stricter than her friends parents but I never believed it till this thread 😂

I am under no illusions I won't have this much say when she's older, bur for now she follows the rules I set.

Good luck for all those getting their kids up next week!

My son is at college so the hours are a lot more relaxed than school.he doesn't have to be in until 10.30 am on Monday

Thankyou, i do try not too see them as perfect but it is nice when its acknowledged by others.

"Mostly" maybe thats good enough for you, i don't know what your standards are or if you have any.

I have had 2 weeks off over Christmas and I have become nocturnal. It started with a nasty cold, I was in bed for a few days and it messed up my rhythm, now I can’t get it back.

Both my teens have said they are glad I didn't let them have their phones in their rooms at night. Most of their friends are on their phones into the small hours and don't sleep enough.