Who else takes their DC's phone away overnight?

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14yo DS and I have a running battle over this. I make him hand over his iPhone at night and put it on charge in my bedroom. He says none of his friends' parents do this and if perverts, drug dealers, bullies and terrorists want to target him via his phone then they can do it just as well during the day. I tell him that I don't care what his friends' parents do and he needs to be able to sleep without those people having access to his room. Quite apart from him using it to play games at all hours of the night!

Does anyone other parent take away phones overnight, or am I truly the only parent in the universe who does this? Apart from my next door neighbour, who does it too...

Mine lose access at 8pm, I think they need some downtime from them before bed. Once they have finished their GCSEs screen time is removed and they can regulate it themselves, but until those exams are over they will follow my rules on it.

No never did this. Never felt the need to.

Whole family has a no devices in bedroom rule (unless on call), adults and children alike. They're charging in the hallway so we still hear them if they ring (in case family need to get in touch).

It's important for sleep for all of us.

Because he's a rotter when he hasn't had any sleep. Plus the aforementioned baddies.

If he is meant to be sleeping then he doesn't need his phone. Mine handed them over easily because if they argued they were not getting it back the next day. We set that expectation though, you argue, you lose the phone.

We then trialed them having them in their rooms but we monitored it and we told them that if they needed us to intervene at any stage they could just hand it back over with no questions, no repercussions because we know how hard it is to ignore the phone.

We made sure they put it face down so it didn't light up the room with notifications at 3am and it was on an automatic silence to everything mode and then back on in the morning.

Getting enough sleep was also evidenced by the fact that they got themselves up, one at 6.30am and into the shower, the other at 6.45am and into the shower with no adult waking them. They were also not grumpy because they had enough sleep. I may have been strict but told them I was their parent, not their mate and I will do things that they disagree with and they can talk to us and negotiate things. We will put our side forward, they can put theirs. It worked really well. They are now adults and understand why we did what we did.

We did this, phones would be put upstairs with us overnight. It was a condition of them having one to begin with though, not something we had to bring in later on. I used to find messages from their friends timed at 2am or later when they were still in primary school.

8 pm was the rule in our house (and still is for youngest - now in year 11). The rules get lifted when they finish their a levels. (Eldest learnt nothing and is always on his phone now / keeps saying he needs to cut back......! - But we tried_

No but I’m about too. Plus switch off the WiFi. I caught him at 3 this morning on his phone.