Do you let them sleep in for as long as they want when there's no school....

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.....or do you make them get up?

DD2 is 12 and likes to sleep in at the weekends and holidays to mid morning (yes i know it could get worse). She might surface at 10.30 to 11ish. I don't really mind, but my DH does - he thinks she should be up breakfasted and dressed. DD1 is 13 and always up around 7.30 and is breakfasted etc by 8.30 ish.

The differences in time usually mean that on weekends they are hungry at different times and it can sometimes throw the evening meal out.

Please tell me what happens in your house

My DCs are 14 and 16 and some days I wish they could lay in longer. DS will be working 3pm to 1am shift today at the sports centre. I will be cross if he doesn't lay in tomorrow.

My two are out of the house at 7.30am during term time and not home until 5.00pm at the earliest, quite often after 5.30. To leave the house at 7.00am is a very early start Gazzalw.

DS1 (who needs her sleep) had a sleepover last night at her mate's house. She said they didn't go to sleep until 2am this morning and was grumpy all day today after arriving home - tonight she fell asleep fully clothed on top of her bed before 9pm. She'll be up before 7.30am tomorrow I should think. She'll wake me first by flushing the loo, then she'll wake up the dog and start a game with him, then the telly will go on too loud. Looking forward to it....

DS2 is the night owl, she delayed bedtime for as long as possible tonight using several different methods, eventually she sloped off around 10ish fully aware I need to wake her at 9am in the morning to leave the house at 9.30am. She will be a pleasure, so looking forward to that too....

Can't get to grips with this abbreviation thing, think I mean DD not DS

I let mine sleep in, but say that there's no breakfast after 11am. They can wait for lunch then.

If they had more sense and cleaned up after themselves I would let them eat then too, but they leave it in a horrible mess and eat all kinds of stuff (egg related usually) that leaves the maximum destruction in the kitchen.

ds1 (13) was up before 9 today though. dd1 (11) hasn't emerged yet. Mine aren't yet at the stage where they go out in the evening, so I suspect it will only get worst.

Beatiebow sorry to inform you that your fears it will get worse maybe right. DD2 in particular started to turn nocturnal at about 16. At first it was just staying up until 12 and sleeping in to midday. But it gradually got worse and she was often still awake at 3am.

Ds is 17 and has just surfaced. I wasted a lot of breath nagging him to get up before 12 over the last few years only to realise he was less of a pain asleep!

We are all early risers in our house.....even at the weekend ds 13 springs out of bed at 6.30, whereas dd 15 is up by 7 on a school day and 8 at the weekend.
They are not late to bed though...9 during the week, and 9.30 on a Saturday.
They have weekend commitments too, so have to be up and out by 9.30 on a Saturday and 9 on a Sunday.
I'm the same...I can't lie in. don't think I ever have stayed in bed past 8.30 in my life.

Mine all get up before me unless I'm working

DH said he got up at 8 and they were all awake but doing stuff in the boys room. I wouldn't know as I didn't get up until 11 :P They all take after DH rather than me with sleep patterns!

How do all of you posters get your kids to work hard in the week? My 17 year old does 3 hours of lessons at school and about 2 hours at home so about 25 hours per week. I on the other hand work full time so usually about 45 hours per week plus cleaning, cooking, washing etc. So how come they are the ones who need a rest?

3 hours of lessons? Mine do 5 hours of lessons, 7 hours in school, 1 hour walking each way, then homework and extra-curricular. But there is lots of evidence as stated earlier that during the teen years because of physiological and brain changes they need more sleep than adults or pre-teens.

in the holidyas i used to let them sleep in - becuase i was at work and i figured that they could get into less misteive.not burn house down/ kill each other if they were sleeping.

I let dd sleep in - and i sleep in as well, both until about 10am. We both get up at the crack of dawn in the week, and she does sports and activities 4 nights a week, and works two nights, so she deserves her lie ins (as do I).

Ruby are you serious that you creep about so you don't disturb them - and turn the phone off? Knickers to that, in our house when the day shift starts it's business as usual - vacuuming, radio on, whatever.

DD2 did ask a long time ago if I could be a bit quieter in the mornings so as not to disturb her. When I'd finished laughing I offered her some earplugs

I leave them be. Dd1 normally surfaces around lunchtime and then has a crfoss between breakfast and lunch lol. Dd2 wakes around 9 but stays in bed reading for a while.

Ds got was awake and up by 9 this morning. Be got home from work at 1.30 so not a lot of sleep, but he is going to bed now.

yep, awake = trouble

My downstairs neighbour woke us all at 5.15 this morning with bloody music pounding. I'm feeling a bit stabby when it comes to morning people who are loud music afficionados as a result. Next time he does it I will go down there and scare the bejaysus out of him. I am not at my most attractive at that hour. If one of the DCs got up and turned on the tv at an ungodly hour (as defined by me) it would be their first and last time.

Fairyliz, the more you pile on, the more they accept it as normal and learn to manage their time to accommodate it all. The trick is to keep your own moaning and groaning to a minimum.

I always agree that I won't wake them - and actually I enjoy the peace. However when it starts to annoy me, or if I know they should be revising, or studying Magically the phone rings - and it is always the wrong number. Unbelievably it has been known to ring twice and been the wrong number twice!!! And ofcourse - my mother might have rung for a quick chat. Even my intelligent teenagers haven't put two and two together yet - so I use it judiciously!