posted August 09, 2007 11:43 PM         

As adolescents no later than 9 or 10...

As young teens...10 to midnight...

Now at their ripe old ages of 15 and 19...sometimes they do NOT go to bed!

I have always believed in a strict time for children to retire for the night...parents need their time too and unfortunately this often occurs when the kids are asleep...AND structure is never a bad thing..

posted August 10, 2007 11:28 AM         

My grand kids vary. My son's kids are 11 and 6 and they go to bed at 8:00 during school and at 9:00 in the summer.

My daughter's kids are 10, 9 and 3 and go to bed by 9:00 during school and stay up until 10:00 or 10:30 during summer.

I am a believer in kids going to bed early too. Mine always had a set schedule and were in bed no later than 8:30 all year long. For the reasons that hippiechick stated in her post. Evenings were always my quiet times.

I never let them stay up later in the summer while school was out because I think that messes up their internal clock and it is too hard to get them back on a winter school schedule.

posted August 10, 2007 11:57 AM         

School time they are in bed by 10:00pm

posted August 10, 2007 02:02 PM         

In my experience kids often tell you of what their friends are up to, allowed to do, but that is often not the case....

And I am pretty sure that if kids of your ages' friends are recieving calls late at night their parents likely do not know and if they do they are not the type of parents that you would want to be raising the friends of your children...ie: they do not know what their kids are up to...

But parenting styles are SO individualistic anyway!!!

Blessings

Terri

posted August 10, 2007 03:06 PM         

Wow, 10 and 11 o'clock!! My 11yo would be a TOTAL crab if he stayed up that late
He's in bed at 9:00 on weeknights (summer or not) and 9:30 on weekends -- I agree with Mirandee on the circadian rhythms/inner clock thang..... CJ is up at 6:30 on weekdays and we both sleep in on weekends

posted August 10, 2007 06:18 PM         

It is we who mentally alter our internal clocks. We used to eat dinner earlier and now eat an hour and a half later. I used to get hungry at the normal dinner time but now I don't get hungry until around the new dinner time. Same applies to sleeping and rising. We know the daylight savings time but our bodies don't unless we readjust our internal clocks.

NAM I cannot fathom any parent letting their children call other kids after 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. I don't even call anyone later than 9:00 ( unless I know for sure they are up and that it is okay to do that ) because some people go to bed early. That's rude and bad parenting if the parents know. It's bad parenting even if they don't know if they haven't taught their kids better manners and to be considerate of others. I would flip out if anyone called my kids at those hours. That is if they were still kids and not adults.