My 6 year old DS wants to stay up until midnight

[Evianbottles]

He’s still awake now. He’s never been one for a lot of sleep (on the AUHD pathway).

We are staying at my parents and so he doesn’t want to miss out. We’ve had a buffet tea and now watching a film.
He's in his pjs, but wants to stay up to watch Big Ben chime midnight and the fireworks on TV.

What would you do?

Every year for the last 4 years we’ve let the kids, currently 11 & 8 stay up. We do some party food (M&S mini yorkshire puddings are the big hit this year), listen to Michelle Visage on the radio put on the TV about 11:45pm and go to bed once the fire works are over. They usually sleep to 10 the next day but get back into their normal routine from the next night.

My five year old is still up. She's waiting patiently with her confetti cannon! And my three year old has only just gone to bed. Let him stay up xxx

Personally I'd let him, but no napping or drifting off before 12. If he's anything like my asd DC, a slow blink will have them up until 4am to make up for it 😅

Have a great evening!

Where's the harm? It's the holidays and a one off!

DD9 is up but getting increasingly grumpy due to tiredness! She’ll be in bed straight after midnight.

DS5 is oblivious and went to bed as normal.

I’d let him if he can manage it.

Let him! It’s one night and it’s traditional to do so.

You came to MN to ask opinion on your kid staying up another 2 hours? 🤦🏼‍♀️🫤
Your account is going to be busy for the next 14 years 🥴

Why worry?

If he doesn't want to go to bed, tell him he can stay up until he's tired, and let him. The odds are he's already flagging, and if not, you'll get a lie in tomorrow. Life's too short to make rules for every little thing.

Let him. Hopefully, when he is older, he will remember the New Years Eve. He stayed up late in Granny and Grandads house.

I am in my 40s but still remember staying up for New Years Eve in my grandparents' house. I still claim that I stayed awake all night. There is photo evidence of me sound asleep on my grandfather's shoulder, but in my memory, I stayed awake all night.

Mine also both AuDHD and have always stayed up. Now 16 and 19 and been fine doing this for 15 years. Go for it.

I'd let him. It's school holidays and not a battle worth fighting. He might fall asleep before midnight but probably not if he's ASD/ADHD. My daughter astounds me with her lack of need for sleep. If he's ASD/ADHD then I also expect you have more struggles than 1 late bedtime.

If, on normal days, sleep is an issue Melatonin is well worth investigating. I wish I'd got it sooner for my DD. I wanted her to learn to regulate her sleep naturally without really understanding that she couldn't.

Mine are 4 and 7 and their both up they always do for new year or at least try to. They wouldn't be able to sleep anyway sounds like ww3 out there

Let him if he can stay up…

Let him see in the New year with you all
Bless him
Happy New year young man !

Your mistake was making a big deal out of it if you didn't want him to stay up. You can't expect a child to go to bed if they know everyone else is staying up to watch fireworks, so now I'd save the bedtime battle and just let him stay up. My own DC6 was in bed at 7:30 none the wiser. We're a family who have never stayed up for it though, my own parents never did and I never have either! I'm all tucked up and hoping to sleep through it all.

My Mum used to let us stay up once we were school age. We would have nibblies and lemonade starting at 11 pm. watch the N.Y. concert on TV and play cards. Before midnight we brushed our teeth and put on our PJs, ready to watch the fire works at midnight and shout, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We just slept in really late the next morning.
At least half those nights I chose to go to bed earlier than midnight.

Ahhhh let him! If he can manage it! We were going to let our nearly 4 year old stay up but he's fell asleep on the couch bless him

You're an adult... why are you asking MN this?

We always woke ours up about 11.45 at that age and back in bed about 12.45am. They didn’t manage to stay up fully until 9/10