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Appropriate bed time - 13 year old

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NeverFastAlwaysFurious · 06/11/2024 22:55

We go to bed at 9. Sometimes before to watch a film or doom scroll. We are up extra early. DD says she cannot possibly go to bed at this time too and has set herself a bed time of 10. However I've just heard her getting in to bed now and she was fucking about not actually in bed so could have been a midnight bedtime on a school night. She wakes up at 7 to get ready for school and it's 50/50 as to whether she is cheery or the devil. She is never spritely. I forget, at my age, whether spritely in the morning was ever actually a thing. So I've given her a stern word and said we'll have a chat tomorrow about appropriate bed times and strict rules. She has friends who go later and who go earlier.

So, 13 years old and up at 7am - when is bedtime?

OP posts:
Pashazade · 07/11/2024 08:15

Usually around 9.30. Devices downstairs.

Blodkin · 07/11/2024 08:30

Mine go really early compared to most. One needs loads of sleep, always has done and the other swims before school so is up before 5 am.

I do clearly remember when my DD, now in her 20's was a teenager her sociable time was my bedtime. It was gruelling for me at the time as I had a baby and a toddler up really early and during the night but it seemed to be when DD really needed me.
I was chatting to a friend with a 14 year old DD and she said her daughter is the same way.

MiddleAgedDread · 07/11/2024 08:31

She usually takes herself to bed between 9-9:30 on a school night, can be later on a weekend but still usually in bed around 10 if she has sport they next day. Sometimes asks to watch tv for a bit when she goes to bed but doesn’t seem to stay up for long.

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