Thread 14? Corona Cohort Yr 12 2021 - 'Vaccinations and Eliminations'

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Just place marking for the New Thread!

One of mine gets up reasonably early (by about 8.30) regardless, the other stays in bed till lunchtime reading given half a chance. Neither have had any problems being up in time for school though. It is a bit weird going off for work and leaving them both in bed (I go at 8, normally one leaves at 8 and I drop the other at the station on my way to work).

Just always have done crazy. Tbh , DS2 is always up anyway . We are just routine people!

Also DH us not laid back at all. He couldn't bear it if they were still in bed . Or if they went to bed after us! I must say I wouldn't like that either.

Yes, the going to bed after us unsettles me. DH is a night owl and often stays up later than me with the DCs but he's been going flat out at work and wanting to go to bed earlier, he thinks it's fine to just leave them up but I don't really like it, silly really as I don't bat an eyelid about leaving them in the house all day without us. But that felt weird at first too.

I just wouldn't be able to sleep. It's also stupid stuff like putting the cats to bed!!

Everyone up by 8.30; everyone in bed by 11!

Wow! I can't even imagine how you enforce it!

I don't think we're really routine people at all; even when the kids were at primary school, we used to let them stay up to 11/12 in the holidays. Dh is a night owl anyway. These days, I just let them decide their own timings, as long as they're up for school in term time. But they're in their own rooms, doing whatever, so it doesn't affect me. Sometimes I have to tell dd to quieten down when she's squealing with her friends on facetime at midnight!

We eat late too - dinner at 9pm. And they sort their own meals out in the day. I know my mum would be horrified at how laid back things are in our house!

Mine goes to bed at 9 and up at 7 - even school holidays. I think it is down to when he swum very early mornings. He doesn't like sleeping in - not sure what he thinks he is missing!

Yes, we're very laid back too, they've always gone to bed pretty late in the holidays, mealtimes are all over the place, we've all got our own breakfasts and lunches for years. But I don't like leaving them up after us yet. I wouldn't mind so much if they were in their rooms but they are usually downstairs, watching TV, having late baths and showers etc. I imagine I'll get up one day and DD will still be sitting on the sofa watching telly.

Until the last 6 months or so DS was always in bed by about 10 on school nights and 11 in the holidays, but even he's drifted to midnight-8.30ish now.

Dd1 has always slept horrendously badly - she has melatonin but won't take it until midnight and it isn't as effective for her as it used to be either. She is frequently awake until 4 or 5 in the morning (but in her room, not downstairs). As a result it's very difficult to get her up in the morning - I'm happy for her to sleep in if she doesn't have 'live lessons', but they often email about them first thing, so she misses the emails...

I finally resorted to asking her teachers to copy me in to the morning emails they send her, which has worked a bit better over the last couple of weeks.

FrequentFlier I'm fascinated to hear about the Covid situation in India but so sorry your move to the UK hasn't worked out the way you hoped. My dc are suffering from not seeing their friends, but at least they know they are all in the same boat - must be so frustrating and depressing for your ds to see his mates in India having fun. Fantastic news on his grades though!

It's not enforced as such crazy. It just is. the only time I feel a bit weird is on holiday when we were all abed and everyone else's kids were roaming.

We are also no devices in the bedroom (whole family : adults too)

I had a year 12 girl send me work at 2 am !!

The only thing I'd say as a teacher (and sorry if it sounds lecturely) watch out for them not getting up when at home if their lessons don't start til 10. That is how some of the kids I teach are falling behind and getting swallowed by workload as they aren't using their lesson one frees for work (or sometimes missing out on whole mornings of study periods!)...

Ah, yours is like mine esther! DS1 got such a shock when he first went to uni!

@Piggywaspushed fortunately Dd is conscientious and responsible enough to get her work done- she just does it later. Ds is a different matter, but I keep on top of what he needs to do! I let him get up at 10 today but he still had to get through his day’s work before he got his Xbox controllers back (lots of gadgets in rooms here 😂)

@Piggywaspushed how did ds1 adjust to uni life? Did he change his habits?

In some ways my kids live like uni students already (just with an evening meal prepared and all washing done!)

Thank goodness it's 1/2 term. Although what we are supposed to do for pleasure only the lord knows!

Been teaching ds1 to drive - he's doing nicely and I don't think it'll be long till he's ready for his test. He'll sit his theory in the next week or so, he says!

He had a brace fitted today.

Just had his report and predicted grades. He's doing ok. Could do better! Hmmmm! Predicted, and currently working at 3x B's. Target 3 x A's. So I'm not that impressed.

He adjusted fine in the end crazy! I think he likes it now. He grumbles when he gets back to us, although he still puts himself to bed at 11pm. He is a hermit so no social life to take him out anywhere!

I was always up first at uni. Once was the only person in a 9.15 lecture...

I hope yours gets on OK with the brace oblomov.
DSs came off last year after a long old haul. His teeth are lovely now!

I can't enforce getting up. If I suggest ds2 gets up he shouts "no" and "what's the point?" He just won't get up.

All of mine have their gaming stuff in their rooms. Ds3 is only 11 so I make sure he's not playing on any gadgets after 9pm. But ds2 is usually shouting to his friends quite late. They seen to come alive about 10pm. But if he's still shouting at midnight he will be told to turn off. Though obviously he isn't shouting late on a school night. I wouldn't want them gaming downstairs. They'd all fight over the tv in the living room. So had to be in their rooms.

Same here @icanbewhatiwant. Dd has an Xbox too but only uses it for watching Netflix. Both lots of friends seem to spring into life late at night! Dd says she’s got to know her new friendship group so much better over lockdown because of the 4-hour group FaceTime conversations they have!

@Piggywaspushed glad he adjusted ok!

@Piggywaspushed nowt like a 9am lecture -which wasn’t compulsory for me and I suspect still isn’t at most Unis -but was best to attend for the ‘golden nuggets’ given by the ‘early bird’ lecturers!

Interesting article on supporting teenage mental health www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zctjkty?xtor=CS8-1000-%5BPromo_Box%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BPS_BITESIZE~N~zctjkty~P_TopTipsForUnderstandingYourTeenagerInTheNewNormal%5D

If ds2 goes to university I fear he would miss lectures because he can't get up. I can wake him and he just goes back to sleep. We can often hear his alarm going off in his room, he just sleeps through it, we don't have a small house so his room isn't that close. Or he switches it off in his sleep.

@icanbewhatiwant I feared that too, but DS1 (who gets up at 3 when home) has only once overslept for a university lecture.

@Monkey2001 that's good to hear. Ds1 is better at getting himself up. He's never missed a lecture (through being asleep anyway!) but ds2 can sleep for England. So I can imagine him just sleeping all day.