Letting dd sleep on

[dancemom]

Did is 9, very active and usually an early bird, up between 6 and 7am every day. Very occasionally she needs more sleep and it's almost impossible to rouse her before she's ready. Today is one ofthesedays.i text my friend to say we wouldn't see her in the playground as dd was sleeping in and we would be late. She's horrified I have allowed this and says I should insist on dd getting up. I think if dd needs the sleep then she needs it. I don't anticipate being more than an hour late if even that and dd hasn't been absent from school at all in the past 2 years and only late on two occasions inthe same timescale.
Who is right? Should I insist on rousing an exhausted dd who never usually sleeps in or am I right in thinking she must need it and will benefit from it?

If you can leave her and don't need to be anywhere yourself, I probably would. Is there a trigger for this or does it just happen randomly?

Well, I wouldnt let her sleep in on a school morning. But that is just me. Id wake her with enough time for her to come around before school and then put her to bed an hour earlier tonight.

I wouldn't leave her on a school day. I know that aged 9 it would have worried me being late for school and I would have been embarrassed walking into class late.

Unless there's a reason, at 9 I would get her up. 5/6 I wouldn't.

No trigger, just seems to be randomly once or twice a year. She's up now and full of beans so we should only be half an hour late if that. She was in bed at her normal time, normal sleep over the weekend, no late nights, just seems that sometimes she needs an extra hour or two!

I'd do the same as you OP. I was exactly the same from a similar age as your dd, once or twice a year I would need a morning off school to sleep, and my ds is exactly the same. Over the school year it won't disadvantage her

As such an infrequent occurrence as you've outlined I'd do what you did.