To let my 7 year old stay up to watch the England game?

[moryn]

9pm kick off tonight, the first England game of the World Cup.

I have some great memories from the World Cup when I was a child. It’s once every four years…

Should I, or is it ridiculous?

Of course you're not, schools are buzzing with world cup fever.

Not sure. Rebelliousness lol
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A really good chance to expose kids early to the concept of taking part ....

Teacher here. If his attendance is normally good and you're planning on staying home.witj him tomorrow, absolutely fine. If you're planning on sending him overtired and overwrought then no.

Love this 😂

The answer is because they are narcissistic enough to believe we care about their opinions, even when anonymous.

For those saying it’s once in four years - well, you have the euros and the olympics, in between.
For a seven year old 9pm would be ok, midnight sounds too late. As a poster said above, I imagine schools will struggle dealing with the consequences of so many children who didn't get proper sleep. They don’t just fall asleep on their desks. They are over emotional and more accident prone.
Does anyone remember the research where every year the change of clocks is actually causing so many accidents, and that’s just one hour sleep loss, and for grown-ups…

I think it can be as exciting, bonding and special if it’s being talked about, sticker books filled in, highlights watched in the morning, without disrupting sleep.

I let my 6 & 8 year old daughters get back up for the Scotland game at 2am. Such a special moment and they were right as rain the next day.

I definitely wasn’t!

Thank goodness I grew up in a football household 🤣

No of course not. Its just a football match. If it was the final or semi final then maybe. My DS is 11 and I think they are watching it on his school residential but if he was 7 and at home he'd be in bed by 8 at the latest on a school night.

It’s been a great match so far! Kids will be super excited about it tomorrow!

What about teachers after they have had a piss up? You are going to have to suck it up tomorrow.

It’s not once every 4 years! There’s a FIFA World Cup next year too.

No, there’s another FIFA World Cup next year.

one we have a shot of winning too.

My ds is 8 and I let him watch the first half. Dd1 is 10 and took herself off to bed at 8.30pm as she had sports day and was tired. Both kids went to bed at 8pm last Saturday so they could wake up and watch the Scotland game at 2am on the 14th July. They watched the whole game whilst I snored through it but in my defense I was knackered.

I'd have let him stay up for at least the first half, if he'd shown signs of nodding off then I'd have sent him to bed.

Well my plan for the 11yo to go to bed at half time didn't happen, her and DP are nattering away, TV blaring. To be fair it's been a relatively interesting game as England games go.

8yo was asleep before 8pm and 13yo is reading / lights off imminently but he has no interest in football.

My 8 year old went upstairs at half term. She had been watching the game and talking constantly lol.

Fine for the parents who won’t be trying to wrangle a class full of sleep deprived fractious kids into behaving properly all day. What about the teachers?

It's hardly late for a 7 year old. What time is the poor wee soul usually packed off to bed?! 🤨

All my DGC’s are up with their parents even the tiny ones who have since dropped off and been carried upstairs xx

Why on earth would it be ridiculous? Of course you should, if they want to!

(I’m Scottish and my three (6, 9 and 11) were up at 2am to watch our first game (they did go to bed first!) and will watch the next 2 at 11pm.)

Hope you did, I will be fair and say England have played better than I’ve seen in a long time!

My 4 year old is still up! She loooves football. I’ll keep her off tomorrow though.

That’s not true.

If England win their group, why will play at 5pm on Wednesday 1st July.

Oh really? Sorry. I probably read the wall chart wrong 😬

Of course gone 11pm is late for a 7 year old