Single parents. How old were your children when you .

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.went to bed to sleep whilst leaving them up?

Teens. I am quite a late to bed kind of gal so tend to be up the latest anyway.

I have always been a big sleeper so normally well asleep by 10pm. So I would say it was around early secondary school age when my boys started sometimes staying up later than me (at weekends at first)

I've probably been doing it for around the last year. Dc are well in to their 9th and 12th year. Obviously it starts later for the earlier than the younger one which is just one of those things but then the younger has the element of supervision

I'm not a single parent but we've now started going to bed with ds still up and he's 12.

At whatever age I was happy to leave them along for 1 hour. About 10 I think.

It hadn't occurred to me to do that! If I'm tired I'll go to bed at the same time as them, but not before. They're nearly 10 and 12. I'd worry they would stay up too late, esp ds2. So probably not on a school night.

About 12.

My eldest is autistic and doesn’t sleep much! He’s 16 now but he’s been going to bed after me for a good 3 or 4 years I’d say. He’s in his room and phone is downstairs but he has a tv and kindle in there

My DD13 will stay up after me when she has sleepovers. if we are up later at the weekends I make sure she's asleep before me...she has done a couple of virtual sleepovers so I let her stay up later than me then too.

However, she has ASD and ADHD so whilst a lot of ND kids do stay up later she is a lot better when she's had loads of sleep. So I am strict during term time.

Being a single parent is kind of exhausting at times so whilst I'm probably a bit strict about sleep it's really because I'm knackered and I want to sleep peacefully.

I’ve just started doing it with my 12 year old but I’m trying to get her to go to sleep first still as there have been a couple of nights she stayed up watching Netflix and went to bed at 3am! But is hard when she’s still awake at 10pm in summer holidays when I’m desperate to go to sleep!

15. BUT he hit that age during covid lockdown madness etc and I'd probably have done it sooner if things were normal and he wasn't the only person on the planet I was interacting with!

The big one for me now is: is it ok for me to go to sleep before he comes home? GULP.

Did you post the first half of your post on another thread? It makes no sense, especially on a thread from August.

My children were probably about 11 or 12 …our bedroom was downstairs so I could hear the general atmosphere.

@SavingKitten no, I put the age as a number followed by a full stop and it's turned the post into list formatting. I didn't notice that the thread was from August - it came up in active.