Sleep habits in your teenagers

[jenn-]

I need some help settling a disagreement between my DH and I.  One of us thinks teenagers getting up after 9 is abnormal, and one of us thinks it is normal and expected on days when there is nothing else to do. Thanks for your votes.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

We are just entering into this territory. Oldest has always been a night owl and late sleeper (rising around 8:30-9:00 a.m.), but this 10:30 a.m. thing is new. It's annoying me, but oh, it's driving my poor DH insane. That man has a long 4-5 years ahead of him.

[Joker]

My teens would more often than not sleep until noon or later if I didn't wake them. Dh and I were the same way. They both get up with zero problem for ps during the week, which means they are up at 6am. On the weekends it varies between 9am-1pm if we don't make them get up. When they were littles, they were up by 7am on their own with no problems.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

There seems to be lots of research about teens and sleep these days. This is an interesting article:

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/from/sleep.html

[Murphy101]

What else are they doing the the waking hours and how late are their waking hours and what is otherwise "normal" for them?

 

That's what I'd need to decide if it was abnormal for MY teen(s).

[Melissa B]

I had to go with other on the last question. My teens will sleep until noon on the weekends if there is nothing going on. They will also be up late on Friday and Saturday nights. But, they aren't a bear to wake at any time. They are both up early every morning during the week and they will get up pleasantly on the weekends as well, if there is a specific reason to be up. Otherwise, I let them sleep and they are up on their own around noon.

[TeenagerMom]

DD14 almost always sleeps until noon.  She goes to bed somewhere in the midnight hour.  She has always required 12+ hours of sleep since birth.  She actually slept all night her first night home from the hospital!

 

DS12 has never needed much sleep & always been up at the crack of dawn (like 5-6 a.m.).  Lately I am noticing the shift into the teen sleeping habits.  He now wakes up somewhere around 9ish.

[elegantlion]

My Ds often goes to bed a 2am and will sleep 10 to 12 hours. We school in the afternoon, which works well since I'm in school too. He can shift times if necessary and has a bit over winter break, ironically going to bed earlier.

 

He's never been a morning person and prek and K in private school was horrid.

[Garga]

I dislike these threads. I don't like it when people label their teenagers as lazy and get irritated when they stay up late and sleep in late. I find it completely logical that if this is something that happens to the vast majority of teens, especially to teens who have never been this way before in their lives, then it is something absolutely normal for their stage of growth.

 

Why do we keep having these threads railing against these lazy teens? Every single teen can't be "lazy." Whenever these threads start someone links one of the many (many, many) articles explaining that this is completely normal, and yet there will be people posting that it's all hogwash and their teenagers are just lazy.

 

Maybe I'm sensitive to it because I remember being this way as a teen, many moons ago. Back in the 1980s I would stay up late, wide awake, and sleep in late, exhausted. My mother, thank the Lord for her, didn't bother me about it one bit. During the week I got myself up and went to school or work, on time, and on the weekend I was up late and in bed until noon. She never gave me grief over it. If it weren't so late I'd call her right now and thank her for it.

 

Your teenagers will stay up late. Your teenagers will sleep in late. It's normal. If it's not affecting their commitments (school, whatever) then leave them be. Give them the autonomy to direct their sleeping schedule.

 

The only problem is if there are family commitments that the teen is blowing off because of sleep. And then, a compassionate response needs to be made, based on the many (many, many) articles that show their sleep patterns are normal and they're working against nature to get up early.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

He's never been a morning person and prek and K in private school was horrid.

 

If I'm being completely honest, this was one of the factors in our (OK, my) decision to homeschool. Getting that kid up and going for preschool for two years straight was traumatic for both of us. She's still the same way. Thank goodness youngest is an "Up and at 'em!" kind of kid. She's not a super early riser, but when I say "Go get ready for the day," that is exactly what she does. Unlike my oldest  :banghead:

[JFSinIL]

All my kids are, and always have been, night owls.   Hubby is, too.  I on the other hand am not.  I wake up between 4 and 5am, bright eyed and rarin' to go. I can not stay up late - am going to bed as soon as I post this. I have been forcing myself to stay up past 9pm as I only sleep 6 hours at most now and if I go to bed too soon I am awake at 3am. 

 

In college, when others wanted me to join them at clubs etc., I went reluctantly as I am just too tired and brain dead by evening.  Night classes were always hard.  If I need to think and write etc. it has to be in the morning, and certainly not past 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

 

My kids are the exact opposite. 

 

Yawn. Goodnight.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

I dislike these threads. I don't like it when people label their teenagers as lazy and get irritated when they stay up late and sleep in late. I find it completely logical that if this is something that happens to the vast majority of teens, especially to teens who have never been this way before in their lives, then it is something absolutely normal for their stage of growth.

 

Why do we keep having these threads railing against these lazy teens? Every single teen can't be "lazy." Whenever these threads start someone links one of the many (many, many) articles explaining that this is completely normal, and yet there will be people posting that it's all hogwash and their teenagers are just lazy.

 

Maybe I'm sensitive to it because I remember being this way as a teen, many moons ago. Back in the 1980s I would stay up late, wide awake, and sleep in late, exhausted. My mother, thank the Lord for her, didn't bother me about it one bit. During the week I got myself up and went to school or work, on time, and on the weekend I was up late and in bed until noon. She never gave me grief over it. If it weren't so late I'd call her right now and thank her for it.

 

Your teenagers will stay up late. Your teenagers will sleep in late. It's normal. If it's not affecting their commitments (school, whatever) then leave them be. Give them the autonomy to direct their sleeping schedule.

 

The only problem is if there are family commitments that the teen is blowing off because of sleep. And then, a compassionate response needs to be made, based on the many (many, many) articles that show their sleep patterns are normal and they're working against nature to get up early.

 

I agree with you. I do believe it's a normal stage for teens, and even more normal for some teens (the night-owl type). Honestly? I slept until noon yesterday (please don't tell my DH!). So I don't think it makes my teen lazy. 

 

The only reason it frustrates me is because it often confounds our goals as a family. For example, she WANTS to go to to our weekly co-op. Her friends are there. However, she's absolutely miserable to get going on co-op mornings. I can't leave her at home (we're too far away and she's too young to be home that long), I can't let her sleep past 8:00 (if I do, we're unacceptably late to co-op), and I can't drop co-op (because it's extremely important to my younger daughter, just as as it was for older DD for years). So her sleep habits are negatively affecting all of us. She also gets frustrated when we're not done with school until 5 p.m., and neither of us is at our best that late in the day, but if we don't start school until 1 p.m. because she's not functional until then, how can we be done earlier? She complains that we never have time to do any "fun stuff"--well, this is part of the reason why!

 

Anyway, sorry, went off on a bit of a rant there, but yes, I do agree that it's a normal developmental stage. It's just hard on everyone else too! It's also hard on me, the extreme introvert, to have one up and twittering in my face at 8:30 a.m. and one up still loping around the house at 11 p.m. By the time everyone goes the heck to sleep and I can settle in for my alone time, I fall asleep on the couch in minutes and DH is ticked because I never come to bed! But that's a whole other post :lol:

[Garga]

I agree with you. I do believe it's a normal stage for teens, and even more normal for some teens (the night-owl type). Honestly? I slept until noon yesterday (please don't tell my DH!). So I don't think it makes my teen lazy.

 

The only reason it frustrates me is because it often confounds our goals as a family. For example, she WANTS to go to to our weekly co-op. Her friends are there. However, she's absolutely miserable to get going on co-op mornings. I can't leave her at home (we're too far away and she's too young to be home that long), I can't let her sleep past 8:00 (if I do, we're unacceptably late to co-op), and I can't drop co-op (because it's extremely important to my younger daughter, just as as it was for older DD for years). So her sleep habits are negatively affecting all of us. She also gets frustrated when we're not done with school until 5 p.m., and neither of us is at our best that late in the day, but if we don't start school until 1 p.m. because she's not functional until then, how can we be done earlier? She complains that we never have time to do any "fun stuff"--well, this is part of the reason why!

 

Anyway, sorry, went off on a bit of a rant there, but yes, I do agree that it's a normal developmental stage. It's just hard on everyone else too! It's also hard on me, the extreme introvert, to have one up and twittering in my face at 8:30 a.m. and one up still loping around the house at 11 p.m. By the time everyone goes the heck to sleep and I can settle in for my alone time, I fall asleep on the couch in minutes and DH is ticked because I never come to bed! But that's a whole other post :lol:

Yes, that is all very frustrating! Every single word of it, even down to you not getting time on your own and your dh being ticked because you're not in bed.

 

I agree that this sleep issue certainly can disrupt family life. I just get irritated when people blame the teen as if they're being willfully disobedient or selfish or whatever. I know you're not, that's clear. I just feel so sorry for the teens whose parents shame them for something they have little control over. And yes, kids on farms have always had to overcome it, but that doesn't mean they weren't dragging through those years while waiting for their bodies to finish growing.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

Yes, that is all very frustrating! Every single word of it, even down to you not getting time on your own and your dh being ticked because you're not in bed.

 

I agree that this sleep issue certainly can disrupt family life. I just get irritated when people blame the teen as if they're being willfully disobedient or selfish or whatever. I know you're not, that's clear. I just feel so sorry for the teens whose parents shame them for something they have little control over. And yes, kids on farms have always had to overcome it, but that doesn't mean they weren't dragging through those years while waiting for their bodies to finish growing.

 

I hear you, and I do agree--especially, as you mentioned, because there's a ton of research on the issue currently being publicized. Like I said earlier, DH is in for a long few years here, because he does see the night owl/late sleeper thing as laziness and a lack of self-discipline. Not 20 minutes before I saw the OP, he was in DD's room harassing her to turn out her light and get to sleep. I intervened a bit after he closed her door, and he got annoyed with me *sigh* He and I are going to butt heads a bit over parenting through the teen years. 

[DawnM]

I have one non-sleeper and one sleeper.

 

Oldest doesn't like to sleep, feels he may miss something!

 

The middle son has always been my sleeper.  He is still my sleeper and loves to sleep.  He can go to bed early and sleep in.

 

 

[Pronghorn]

My child is odd. Weekday mornings, she starts the day slowly. She is up earlier on weekends because she has lots of freedom to do what she pleases. Then Monday rolls around and she's sleepy again.

[Dory]

My brother through his teen years (he lived in our home), would wake up at about 11 on the days that he didn't have to work. When he was little he was always up bright and early and waking me up so he could get breakfast. Used to drive me nuts because I was not an early riser as a teen either.

 

As a teen he wouldn't head to bed until after midnight either. It took a lot of nudging from me and pointing things out before I finally got him going to bed before midnight at least on work nights.

[FriedClams]

Our house rules: Saturday morning is yours until noon unless we have stuff going on. (We do have stuff every other Saturday.) Sunday be up by 8:30. Weekdays start at 7. Go to bed earlier if you're tired or take a nap after school.

 

While my teen does sometime sleep in on a Saturday, she prefers to get up and in her words "Not waste the day away sleeping". We have friends on the up late/ sleep late schedule and dd hated it when we visited because she felt like she missed time with her friends because they all slept until 11.

[jenn-]

I hear you, and I do agree--especially, as you mentioned, because there's a ton of research on the issue currently being publicized. Like I said earlier, DH is in for a long few years here, because he does see the night owl/late sleeper thing as laziness and a lack of self-discipline. Not 20 minutes before I saw the OP, he was in DD's room harassing her to turn out her light and get to sleep. I intervened a bit after he closed her door, and he got annoyed with me *sigh* He and I are going to butt heads a bit over parenting through the teen years.

We must have married the same guy ;). That exact scenario happened here right before I posted this. Just like tomorrow I will be making him sit on this fingers when she is asleep at 9 still. He is the head hits the pillow and he's asleep kind of guy and up at 6 naturally. I don't fit into his sleep ideals either.

[jenn-]

Dp

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

We must have married the same guy ;). That exact scenario happened here right before I posted this. Just like tomorrow I will be making him sit on this fingers when she is asleep at 9 still. He is the head hits the pillow and he's asleep kind of guy and up at 6 naturally. I don't fit into his sleep ideals either.

 

Ha! I don't fit into DH's ideals either! I think that may be why he takes issue with DD's sleep patterns. He really dislikes mine, and I suspect he worries that I'm a bad influence on her or lax in disciplining her about it. He's not a naturally early riser, but he's very self-disciplined about getting enough sleep, even if he'd rather stay up and watch another episode of Game of Thrones. I'm...not. He's an extrovert who wants me to come to bed with him at 10:30 (where he watches TV until he falls asleep), I'm an introvert who needs alone time before I can sleep. He does not get that AT ALL. 

 

Oldest DD was also sick this week, so I was very lax about letting her stay in bed, sleep as late as she needed, watch Netflix in bed, etc. This drove him insane. I was like, "She's sick! She has a temp of 101! What is it you expect her to be doing instead?" He didn't have an answer, but he was frustrated all the same. 

 

I really think we're going to have more "discussions" about parenting now than we ever did when the kids were little!

[Tap]

DD16 and ds20 can sleep for 12 hours with no problems what so ever.  But they can also get herself up at 6am for school with no problem.  

 

If neither of them had a clock or schedule to go by, I would expect them to wake up around 11 or 12 and go to bed around 3am. 

 

 

[redsquirrel]

There was a big change in my son around age 12 or 13. He went from a kid who bounced out of bed at 7am to a kid who oozed out of bed after 9.

 

I thought the change in adolescent circadian rhythms was well known? Our school district changed its start time to 9am based on the science. They did it several years ago and report that tardiness and absenteeism is down more than they had hoped. I am very glad my teen doesn't have to leave for school until 8:30.

[sbgrace]

Reading that article makes me realize one of mine, who used to be a "good" sleeper, is probably doing the pre-teen thing described. I get it. I have been so confused by him lately! His twin has a sleep phase disorder and has had major sleep issues for most of his life.

 

Honestly, I would love to just go with their body clocks. I'm a night person too. But it doesn't work with life/outside commitments. And it doesn't go well as a family to have all of us on a schedule so different than hubby's work mediated schedule, though he is a natural morning person.

 

 

[Only me]

All three of my kids (ok not actually kids but 16, 19 and 22) can easily sleep until noon. My 16 year old DS used to wake up a lot earlier until he started his growth spurt. The 16 year old and the 22 year old have no problem sleeping late on weekends yet are still able to wake up early for school etc. My 19 year old daughter on the other hand suffers from insomnia. She has had numerous tests, sleep studies etc. We have seen several sleep specialists but none have been able to help. She sleeps her best from around 4 am until noon. It is this way no matter what we try. Several doctors suggested that she force herself to wake up by 6 and her body will get used to it. Well guess what even after trying that for several months her body didn't get used to it and she was just sleep deprived only getting 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night. She was homeschooled all but one year in high school so she usually woke up around 10. Now that she is in college she has mostly had classes a bit later in the day. Unfortunately next semester she has to take earlier classes so that will be tough.

 

I really think that teen's sleep patterns are biologically different and they should switch high school starting times to reflect that. In my daughter's case it is extreme though and I hope that somehow it will improve when she gets older.

[jewellsmommy]

Dd is 12.5 so not quite teen yet, but she has always been a night owl who likes sleep so I fully expect this to continue into teenagehood. She comes by it honest though. Both dh and I are night owls. Ds was not when he came to us, but i swear he is now. I'm not sure how we converted him because I didn't think that was possible. We weren't trying, but it happened. Now, if he goes to his bio-grandparents, he won't sleep but maybe 4-5 hrs max. It's weird.

 

Last Christmas, we had to wake them both up so we could open presents. It was pushing 11! This year ds was up about 9 and we woke dd then. :lol:  My mom says she had to wake me up on many a Christmas morning. When a kid can sleep that hard on Christmas morning, that's dedication right there. :lol:

 

 

[Joules]

I on the other hand am not. I wake up between 4 and 5am, bright eyed and rarin' to go. I can not stay up late - am going to bed as soon as I post this. I have been forcing myself to stay up past 9pm as I only sleep 6 hours at most now and if I go to bed too soon I am awake at 3am.

 

In college, when others wanted me to join them at clubs etc., I went reluctantly as I am just too tired and brain dead by evening. Night classes were always hard. If I need to think and write etc. it has to be in the morning, and certainly not past 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

 

Yawn. Goodnight.

Morning person here, too. I'm early to bed, early to rise. I hate and dread evening activities, though I drug through many in high school and college.

 

Ds is a morning person, too, so the teen sleep late thing doesn't seem to effect him much. I start getting worried if he's still in bed at 6. It's Saturday and we're completely free today. Ds was up when I got up at 4am.

[bettyandbob]

I need some help settling a disagreement between my DH and I. One of us thinks teenagers getting up after 9 is abnormal, and one of us thinks it is normal and expected on days when there is nothing else to do. Thanks for your votes.

When nothing is scheduled, why is there an issue?

 

There have been studies on adolescent sleep, it's been in te news. Unless there are commitments scheduled, let it go.

[JumpyTheFrog]

We have seen several sleep specialists but none have been able to help. She sleeps her best from around 4 am until noon. It is this way no matter what we try.

http://www.amazon.com/Chronotherapy-Resetting-Inner-Alertness-Quality/dp/1583334726

 

Maybe the book above will help.

[JFSinIL]

One of my kids, the 21-yr-old dd who moved out (hey, full time job over a year now!) has to be at work at...5am.  She HATES this, but that is the real world. So she has had to shift her sleep schedule. and hit the pillow by 8 most nights.

 

18-yr-old, a high school senior (and I did not and do not homeschool high school, sigh) is a night owl, and getting up between 5 and 6am (depending on need to shower) is hard for her. She can not get to sleep before 1 in the morning, either.  She does nap in the afternoon, time permitting.

 

23-yr-old son with autism, still and forever at home - getting him up early enough for the school bus was hard for many years.  Now that he goes to a day program a few half-days a week, it is still hard but not as early.  He only goes half-days as I will NOT go back to trying to get him up at the crack of down to make an 8:30 start time.  He is another night owl who stays up til 2 or so in the wee hours. 

 

 

 

 

[SparklyUnicorn]

My older kid will be 13 very soon (Jan 21).  His thing lately is he likes to go to bed very late.  If I don't wake him up, he would probably sleep until 10 or 11.  I get him up at about 9 usually.  He has never been a good sleeper, but I'd say he is sleeping more now than ever.  I am not particularly bothered by his nutty schedule since we don't have to be anywhere in the morning. 

[freeindeed]

Left to their own choices, my older children would wake up between 10 and 11, as they do on weekends. During the week I wake them at 7:45 for homeschool.

[Wheres Toto]

My oldest would always sleep until noon if she didn't have to get up. 

 

I answered "other" for the waking up question because she would growl a little when getting up early but would get herself up using the alarm on her phone. 

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[Murphy101]

I'm not a fan of sleeping life away. I thinks that the issue for some. While they are sleeping everyone is still living and going about and doing stuff. And late at night, they aren't doing much constructive with their lives. (Usually. Exceptions to everything I know.) So staying up all night messing around on video games or watching tv and then sleeping all morning instead of getting up and DOING something? I'm not a fan of that on a regular basis.

 

Once in a while I wouldn't care, but daily it would drive me nuts. And *I* am a night owl. I'm rarely asleep before 2 am. And I am rarely sleeping past 7ish.

 

Science isn't raising my kids, we are. So I might give a nod to science, but it doesn't determine how I parent overall.

 

So is the kids never getting down time? So many kids are way way over scheduled and then all the sudden at the end of the day, they need down time. Change the day or work with that.

 

Is the kids working hard all day long? The hardest work is not physically strenuous. It's emotional and brain draining. And that is genuinely exhausting.

 

Is the get anxious or depressed? This is also extremely exhausting. But I don't know if sleep is the answer. A balance between coping and not sleeping away needs to be found.

 

Electronic Screens in bedrooms absolutely affect sleep and quality of sleep. I don't allow them normally.

 

Getting up early often self corrects staying up "too late". Or at least reduces the habit considerably.

 

I often stay up knitting or crocheting. Or lesson planning. Or working on a room (painting it, organizing it without people running around it...) Or reading a book. Sometimes my teens stay up socializing or making something or playing boardgames or having poker night. That doesn't bother me. Staying up all night staring at a screen and then doing nothing with their life all morning and half the afternoon, would bother me though and we would be having a discussion about how to correct that.

 

So far this really hasn't been an argumentative issue in our house.

 

If my dh mentioned something, it wouldn't be exactly about sleeping in, bc dh and I are both big fans of sleeping in on the rare occassion we get to, it would actually be his perception of the domino effect of it in daily life.

[Slartibartfast]

My dd isn't naturally an early riser but she sets her alarm for 7 am. She liked to be finished with most of her schoolwork early in the day and then mess around on pinterest in the afternoon with her friends.

[Night Elf]

We've always been a night owl type family. I had to choose other for the question about kids who wake up after 10 possibly being a bear to wake up. Even staying up late, my kids have never had problems waking up early on the occasions that warrant an early wake up time. I have never had a problem waking them up. They may be tired a little later in the day, but they weren't horrible because of it.

[jenn-]

We compromised today.  He let her sleep until 9.  The PBS article did encourage parents to not let their kids sleep more than a couple hours past their normal wake up time and since she gets up at 630...  This poll has definitely proven my point that she is normal and he is the weird one.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

We compromised today.  He let her sleep until 9.  The PBS article did encourage parents to not let their kids sleep more than a couple hours past their normal wake up time and since she gets up at 630...  This poll has definitely proven my point that she is normal and he is the weird one.

 

I think that's a good compromise. Does he understand at all, or is he just going along with you?

 

Mine woke up at 11 (well, OK, I woke her at 11--which was about 5 minutes after I got up, incidentally :rolleyes: ), and then she fell back asleep until I woke her again at 11:20. If DH were home, this would not have happened, but we're struggling to get back onto a decent schedule after both kids spent several days in bed sick. And we have activities starting up in a few days. I'm scared!

[TranquilMind]

I need some help settling a disagreement between my DH and I.  One of us thinks teenagers getting up after 9 is abnormal, and one of us thinks it is normal and expected on days when there is nothing else to do. Thanks for your votes.

Teens need more sleep.  They need as much sleep as babies. Let them sleep.  It won't last forever. 

[PeacefulChaos]

I don't have teenagers, so I didn't vote.

 

BUT I will say that sleeping in is 100% normal.  From being a teenager to knowing a lot of teenagers (youth group leader), it's totally normal.  

Not to mention it being a pretty well-documented fact that teenagers need a lot of sleep.

[PeacefulChaos]

Wth? It's not like I hit 'post' twice... 

[TechWife]

I he can, my son will sleep 10-11 hours. He goes to bed at 11:00 pm and is asleep by 11:30 pm. 

 

My father always woke us up when we were kids. I really resented it, so I vowed not to do it unless absolutely necessary. Saturday is the only sleep-in day his schedule allowed for fall semester, this semester he can sleep in on Fridays and Saturdays. It will be interesting to see how it works out this semester. Yesterday was his first Friday to sleep in and he got up around 10:00 am. Today he woke up at 7:00 am. 

[DragonFaerie]

The poll won't let me vote, so I'll respond here.  DD will sleep until 10:00 or 11:00, sometimes later, easily.  But, she's never been a bear to wake up at any time.  She's one of those kids who always wakes up smiling and sweet, even if she'd rather not have to get out of bed.  Now DS, on the other hand, does not sleep particularly late, often rising before the rest of us, and yet if I have to wake him up for whatever reason, it takes a bull horn and a steamroller to get his grouchy butt out of bed.  Go figure.

 

 

ETA to the peculiarity: DD hops right up when her alarm goes off, no matter the time.  DS sleeps through his alarm all. the. time.  He NEVER hears it.

[Donna]

All of my children are night owls. Dd will wake the earliest on her own, by around 9am unless it's a cloudy day. My boys would sleep until 11am if I let them. If they need to be up early, they all wake easily except middle ds. They all woke with the sun until they hit puberty.

[Luanne]

My daughter technically isn't a teenager anymore since she is 26, but I answered like she was when she was a teenager.  She has always been one to stay up later and sleep in later... even as an infant.

[AngieW in Texas]

The situation in my house:

 

21.5yo - used to be a bear to get up before 11am. She regularly stayed up until 3 or 4 am. Now she goes to bed around 9 or 10pm and gets up between 5am and 7am. She usually walks the dog with me at 6am.

 

19yo - She used to always go to bed by 11pm and get up about 7am. About 17yo, she started staying up later. Now she sleeps in one 4-5 hour chunk, then is awake for 2-3 hours and then goes back to bed. She is often up from 4-6am and then goes back to bed until around 10-11am unless she has to get up for class.

 

16.5yo - She has been on sleep medications for insomnia since she was 12.5yo (and that was after more than one year of sleeping less than 4 hours/night spread out over multiple chunks of time). She goes to bed about 10:30pm and gets up about 7:30am every day. She is very protective of her sleep time. 

[foxbridgeacademy]

Mine are still asleep at 11am, I'll have to make them get up.  They've never been early risers but it has gotten more difficult to get them up as they've gotten older, no matter what time they go to bed.

[gaillardia]

One gets up before 7 and has always been early to bed, early to rise.

One gets up between 8 and 10, usually 9; stays up late, gets up late.

One gets up whenever, usually 9, goes to bed by 11.

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[Guest]

If permitted, my teens will sleep later than 10am, though as children, they were early risers. (Up at 6:30-7:00 until perhaps age 8.)