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To Expect Teenager To Go To Bed at Reasonable Hour?

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miniadventure · 23/08/2010 08:15

We have a teenage son ( just had his 17th birthday ) and during the summer he has been going to bed later and later.It's around 3.30am lately...The problem is he wakes us up even though he tries to creep about then we have trouble getting back to sleep. Also, he looks like a zombie in the morning and can't wake up!
Do you think it would be unreasonable to expect him to go to bed around midnight? Even if he reads in his room at least he'll be resting and he won't wake us up

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DandyDan · 23/08/2010 22:45

Oh, the smell of fried eggs being cooked at 3am, and the sound of loud machine-gun fire from a DVD of Black Hawk Down or similar being played at top volume in the son's room. And coming down in the morning to see the wreckage in the kitchen of spattered cooking oil, tomato ketchup and cupboard doors and drawers open and the butter and milk left out.

But I'll miss him when he goes to uni!

Goblinchild · 23/08/2010 22:55

DD, if he ends up sharing accommodation with my DD she'll knock him into shape. Grin
She doesn't put up with crap from her brother and is very inventive about payback.

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