Re: Sleep and older children

In article <xdSdnWghDpDg99fZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, bizby40 says...


"Banty" <Banty_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, it only works if *everyone* in the household is pretty much
that way.
And, since the rest of the world is geared earlier, you can find
yourself
catching the only straggling last activities of a local fair, and
things like
that.

Well, as I told Ericka, I don't agree that the earliest riser gets to
dictate the schedule for the whole family. And the "early to beds"
will miss out on things too, like the night games of baseball,
fireworks, star-gazing on a balmy sunny night, and things like that.

It depends on the age, degree of independance, etc. Like I said, for us it
means waking my son at 10:00 am during long breaks. That's "dictating", but I
dont' think its unfair dictating. If he's up all hours, I can't monitor what
he's doing at all. And also our meals get all mixed up if he's up at 1:00, an
hour and a half past my lunchtime, wants breakfast, etc. If he's up at 10:00,
lately he gets breakfast and is hungry enough for lunch later with me.

If I let him sleep on and on, we're not doing a darn thing together.

I *do* think there's a need for a long sleep in and recuperation from the week
especially for a teen, and especially since we both have night owl tendancies.
So I split the differerence pretty mcuh.

Banty


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