I am doing an essay on the advantages of being the youngest child, and one of my advantages is that the youngest child gets to stay up later...but I can't think of reasons why or examples...Could someone help me out please...THANKS!!
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2006-09-20 07:16:14 · 15 answers · asked by i wanna know 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
My oldest has to go to school, and the youngest has a real hard time going to sleep, so he usually has to be pput in seperate room to go to sleep. This angers the oldest one.
If I let them go to bed at the same time in the saem room they will play to all hours of the night.
SO divide and conquer is my reason.
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2006-09-20 07:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by Etain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean that the older kids have to go to bed first? Or that the younger kids get to stay up later than the older kids did at that age?
Generally, what happens after parents have a couple of kids is that they get a whole lot more relaxed in their parenting. They discover that it doesn't really matter if the kids stay up a half hour later, or whatever. They also indulge in benign neglect, which means if a kid isn't screaming, it gets left alone to play by itself, and discover the world. The older kids, on the other hand, were the test models. They were brought up strictly by the book (thank you,Dr. Spock) because the parents had no other frame of reference. Except THEIR parents, and who listens to their parents?
So the younger kids get to leave yukky veggies on their plates while the older ones had to clean them up. The younger ones can eat ice cream before dinner while the older ones couldn't. The younger ones can go to a mid-week movie while the older ones were limited to Saturday matinees. etc.etc.etc.
It isn't fair, but that's the way it is.
Hope this helps.
2006-09-20 14:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm the oldest in my family and it was alwasy my experience that it was the other way around. Of course as far as my kids go... the ones who are under school age at this point go to bed at 9pm. But when they start school it will be 8. The way it worked in my family and this is how I will do it with my kids is 8 will be their bedtime until age 12, then it goes to 8:30, at 14 it goes to 9 and then at 16 it goes to 9:30. But of course you have to judge it as you go. I've honestly never heard of a family who puts the youngest to bed last unless they are a baby or todler on a different sleeping schedule.
2006-09-20 14:20:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The youngest child does NOT always get to stay up later. I have no idea where you got that from.
From my experience, the younger child has parents who are already broken in. I am the third child - and they learned a lot of lessons and gave harsher punishments to my oldest brother because they were often faced with new decisions with him. when it came to me, he had already done all the things I was doing, so my punishments might have been lighter, or they didn't fight with me, because they already set the ground rules for him.
2006-09-20 14:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by KB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 3 kids and they all go to bed at the same time. When the youngest is not in school & the others are then they get to stay up late because they don't have to get up early for school.
2006-09-20 14:20:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typically, when the older one is given limitations, the parents tend to give the younger ones the same limitations. For example, when my sister's bedtime was 9 during the school week when we were younger, mine might have been about the same, even though I'm four years younger.
We both got our ears pierced at the same time. Maybe it's just easier?
2006-09-20 14:21:44 · answer #6 · answered by Erin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That doesn't happen in my family however, my youngest tries hard to stay up as long as possible. And my youngest knows how to get attention her way.
2006-09-20 14:19:37 · answer #7 · answered by MAW 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the youngest child is spoiled rotten and gets their way most of the time
2006-09-20 14:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by MiaDiva28 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's mostly because the older kids wear the parents down so they're more flexible with younger kids. That's exactly what happened in my family and my friends' families.
2006-09-20 14:20:22 · answer #9 · answered by dcns 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The parents use the FIFO system, first in, first out, but in this case it is first out, first in, which means the first one to pop out of Mom is the first one in to bed. So in plain English, the first born is the first one into bed, last born last in to bed.
They are using LOLI, or last out last in, which is the root word for "lolipop, which is what they have to give the kid to get him to go to bed..
Messing with these basic accounting principles is what got Enron all screwed up.
2006-09-20 14:48:38 · answer #10 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋