AIBU to refuse a Year 9 staying up for the 1am match?

[BlackTulipss]

Is this unreasonable?
Apparently "every other mum" is letting their school year 9 kid watch the 1am match tonight and phone in sick to school tomorrow morning then go in at lunch.
I've said no to staying up to watch it. Starts at 1am, it will go on till 3:30am, or later if extra time!
DS has to get up at 6:30 for school.
DH says let him, keeps going on about once every 4 years experience, it's only 1 night, etc. And he says it will be the final England match - they'll be knocked out by Mexico tonight so there will be no other England games to watch after tonight.
DS badly needs his sleep and at 14 he still needs a solid 11 hours to function.
Is anyone else letting their DC watch it live tonight?
AIBU?

I very much doubt that's the way most 14 year olds will feel about it so telling me to calm down is pretty pointless and extremely insensitive to the point of the OP's post!! 🙄

At that age they are more than capable of going to bed early, getting up to watch the game, grabbing a few hours sleep, then getting up to get to school on time. If necessary, they can then have a nap after getting home from school or go to bed early that night. One day, it’s not going to kill them.

You can’t treat kids that age like toddlers/small children.

the 14 year old concerned wakes up every morning full of the joys of spring, has a massive smile on their face when saying good morning, chats away about looking forward to their day ahead, sings along to R1 in their morning shower, leaves for school on time every single day without any delays, comes home from school saying they've had a great day and chats about what happened during their day, happily goes off to their different sports clubs after school Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, without fail, never too tired to go, goes to the gym with friends to exercise regularly, goes jogging with his DF and loves it, and goes on 4 hour mountain bike rides cross country at weekends returning full of vitality and enthusiasm, swims every week, is always in a happy mood, loves life, laughs throughout every day, eats a very healthy diet with a hearty appetite, plays music, makes music, has masses of interests and hobbies and is brimming with energy for all the above.....but needs 10 hours sleep and wakes feeling great after sleeping like a log......no. I don't think it's 'worth looking at'

You don’t have a 14yo boy. You have unicorn.
Most 14yo boys are quite moody and getting into the ‘grunt as a response’ stage, which tends to last a few years versus being full of joy, with a spring in their step and huge smiles on their faces from morning to night.

The World Cup is once every four years, you know.

In fairness to OP, despite me entirely disagreeing with her stance on this, I too have a unicorn 14 (almost 15!) year old boy although mine is unicorn like on a lot less sleep too!

Hope you're up kiddo!

Hope he’s enjoying it!

I’m up watching with m my 10 year old nephew! Don’t fear pearl clutches, he’ll be fine. Come on!! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Probably because it was a 7:30am kick off.

But please, don’t let get facts get in the way of your opinion.

@BlackTulipss hope you came to your senses and he got to enjoy the game!

Good morning.

Worth the all nighter England done us proud.

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Best England performance for years , totally worth staying up for .

If you have a football loving kid and you made them miss that for a bit of shut eye then I pity them!

Did he stay up? I do hope so

We are having a power nap and pushing on through .. yr 9 & 10.. 😆💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Please tell me you let him stay up to watch that. Utterly brilliant!

Hope your son enjoyed it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Albeit a little nerve racking!

Please please please tell me you let him stay up for that!!!

Really hope he stayed up OP! My 8yo went to bed at 6:30pm so he could get up and watch it!

My 3 stayed up, 13 14 &16, we only ever watch it every 4 year.
What a match worth staying up for.
Mine have all gone to get power naps then try and get a half day in school, tbh i dont mind them having the whole day off, so im going to just let them lay.
Its not every week.
But they will all ways remeber we stayed up together.
And i will do it again if it comes again.
Now im off to bed.

I guess your DH and most of the fans were wrong. I just saw that England defeated Mexico!! Congratulations on this phenomenal win!!

I really hope your son got to watch the history-making match. ⚽🇬🇧🙌🙌