QOTW: Sleep and your 10-14 yr old

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QOTW: Sleep and your 10-14 yr old
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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 12:26pm

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 1:12pm

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Connor (13) gets between 9 1/2 and 10 hours of sleep per night.


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We have a lights out rule for our son but he tends to go to sleep before lights out on his own.

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Our son has a cell phone (pre-paid for emergancy only), stereo and laptop in his bedroom.
I don't see that having these items in his room has interfered with his sleep any. Computer time is over at 7 pm and stereo time must end at 8 pm. Lights out is at 9pm.

Connor spends at least 30 minutes before turning in reading. He finds that if he doesn't read before bed, he doesn't sleep well. Even when we've had a busy night and it's lights out time, he will ask for reading time if he hasn't had the opportunity to do so yet. Fact of the matter is, he just sleeps better if he can read for a bit first, so we will allow him to stay up to read if he hasn't had a chance to read yet.

We do restrict video game/computer game time to late afternoon (4pm or so and never on a school night). Television viewing is limited to 6pm news and the occasional family viewing. He is not allowed to watch anything two hours prior to turning in. That just messes with his sleep. We do allow him to have music playing in his room up until 8 pm. Lights out is at 9.

stacy

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 1:54pm
Rachel goes to bed 9:30- 10:00 and sleeps until about 7:00. Alex goes to bed somewhere between 10 and 11 and gets up 7:30-8:00. Both of them sleep really well anddon't have electronics in their room. They will do computer or tv right up to bedtime and it doesn't seem to have interfered with sleep.
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Alex (16), Rachel (14), Matthew (12)


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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 2:05pm

My child needs alot of sleep but won't admit it. She can still easily sleep for 11 hours a night however manages to do okay on less. I try to get her to sleep at 10:00 each night although some nights it ends up being closer to 10:30 as she lays there forever to fall asleep. Then she gets up at 7:15, so if she's asleep by 10:15 that's 9 hours sleep. Yet when she doesn't get much sleep she's still not sleepy the next night. Makes me crazy and she's a bear to get up in the morning.


She does not have a TV in her room because I KNOW she would lay there watching it. She can not fall asleep watching TV, she would stay awake until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning watching it if I let her. She has a CD player but she doesn't use it at night. She uses a sound machine which has different sounds like water in a brook or a waterfall and that helps her go to sleep. She can't fall asleep in dead silence. I'm not sure if that study meant because they play with those things and don't sleep or something about weird electrical waves or something. Once she's asleep, she's asleep. I doubt the fire alarm would wake her up.

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 2:21pm

Hmm, my son gets an average of 9 hours a night, more or less.

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 2:43pm

Hi there....coming out of lurkdom to share my 2 cents ;o)


Our daughter is 11 (turning 12 in April) and she is in bed and asleep 9 out of 10 nights by 8:30...some mornings I have to wake her for school at 7 am....but most

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 3:58pm

My ds (12) goes to sleep at 10:30 and awakens at 6:45. His twin sister goes to sleep at closer to 11:00 and gets up at 7:15. She is a night owl and going to bed earlier will not result in falling asleep earlier.

Both kids have computers in their room, tv's, telephones (hand set w/home phone number plus cell phones), stereos, ipod, and an assortment of electronic games (gamebox, nintendo, and for ds xbox360) which they bring in/out of their room. My son usually watches tv in his room for about a half hour before going to sleep, while his sister reads for at least an hour or more in her room before going to bed.

Removing their electronic games/tv/phone/stereo, etc. wouldn't result in more sleep for my kids.

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 4:39pm

My dd (13) and ds (11) are responsible for getting themselves up and off to school in the mornings. My ds gets about 9-10hrs of sleep a night. He usually puts himself to bed around 7pm each night. When asked why so early he said he'll be up at 5am no matter what time he goes to bed, so he may as well be well rested. My dd is usually in bed between 9pm and 9:30pm each school night, so she gets around 8-9hrs a night. Neither have a set bedtime. They go to bed when they're tired.

As far as electronic devices go, my dd has a stereo in her room but nothing else. DS had one in his but he choose to move it to the basement/gameroom since he never listened to it upstairs. I won't allow TVs or computers in their rooms. I don't see a need; and so far, they've been very responsible about sleep and I don't want to put temptation before them.

Leslie

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 5:44pm

Kiana goes to bed at 9:30 pm


She has an ipod, and tv in her room. She isn't allowed to listen to her ipod or watch tv while she is doing her homework.


When I was growing up I was a latchkey kid meaning i was one of those kids who was home by myself after school. I listened to music or had backround noise going, I did do well in school but it did distract me though, and probably took me longer to get what I needed done. Also Kiana doesn't have a desk in her room so she does her homework out in the front room.

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Kiana "Hooprincess" 13 yrs old

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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 7:04pm

Aly sleeps 9 hours per night.

Her electronics ARE in her room (there's storage space for each), but are not turned on after bedtime, so I don't see it as an issue. But I can definitely see how allowing them to use the electronics at night could interfere with sleep. I used to sleep with a radio on...and got very little sleep as a teen.

Alysha


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Mon, 01-01-2007 - 8:00pm

My 10yo dd goes to bed at 9 and gets up at 7. She has gymnastics 3 nights a week and gets home at 8:30 so I usually don't make her go to bed right away, she puts on her jammies and unwinds with us. She'll also read in bed for a little while if she isn't tired. She doesn't play video games, she has an ipod but doesn't listen to it much and the computer is in a different part of the house.

My ds almost 13 goes to bed about 9:30. He's getting to the point now where he prefers to stay up later and sleep in a little. He also gets up at 7. Most days now I'm having to wake him up for school, but he can't seem to get to sleep earlier. He has a laptop, but it's shut off when he goes to bed and he has an ipod he listen to a lot, but not going to sleep. Once he's out, he's dead.

I think being well rested is extremely important for everyone. I know you can't do your best at anything, school, sports, not to mention how crabby you feel, when you haven't had enough rest. It really shows in my dd when she's tired.

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