BEDTIME for teenagers ? what should be appropriate ?

Answer 1

Teenagers still actually need 9 hours of sleep a night. Therefore, I recommend that you go back at least nine hours before they have to get up in the morning. Then I'd add an extra 30 minutes for "settling down" to sleep.

Answer 2

It really depends on the child. When I was a teenager my aunt who raised me never set a bedtime, but I would get up at about 5:30am and would usually be in bed at the latest 11pm, but usually 10:00. I have heard that some people thrive on little sleep, but I would say that depending on what time your child wakes up...I would say they need at least 7-8 hours of sleep. Remember that some require less and some much more. If the child is functioning well, eats well, is active and healthy...oh yeah and doesn't fall asleep in class often then he or she may need a little less sleep than you think is appropriate. Oh and another thing are we talking about a 13 year old or a 16 year old.....the younger they are the more sleep they will require most likely.

Answer 3

All are different but they should be able to wake up, get dressed and be ready for school in good time, without any prompting.
If they can't then bring bedtime forward until they reach a time when they can do that.
Many teachers say teenagers do not get enough sleep to concentrate on lessons and some even fall asleep during them.

Answer 4

ah heck...after I became a senior, I no longer had a bedtime. I just went to sleep when I was tired...lol.

Before then, up until I was 16 or so, I usually had a bedtime of 10. I was sooo glad when I was old enough to be able to stay up...lol

I am 22 now, so it really was not that long ago...lol

Answer 5

My kids aren't teenagers yet, but when I turned 13 my mother suspended bedtime. She bought me an alarm clock and told me that no matter what I would be up and to school ontime and it was on me to make sure. You have to give your kids the responsibility of taking care of themselves at some point, and letting them have a few days of being exhausted at school will clue them into going to bed like responsible young people.

Answer 6

We pretty much let her decide on her own when to go to bed. I can't remember when we started doing it like that. Better to learn the value of a good night's sleep when you're a teen & don't really have much in the way of real responsibilities than when you're an adult & have to function at work.

Of course, she's a smart kid & usually goes down by 10 on school nights - but stays up later in the summer, still.

Answer 7

I don't think I would be imposing a bedtime for a teenager. That's for littler kids. Instead impose that they WILL go to skool in the AM and let them experience the natural consequences of not getting enough sleep. They will learn on their own to organize their life so that this works. Remember you are training them to be an adult.

Answer 8

I don't know too many teens with strict bedtimes. It sounds hard to get a teen to go to sleep at a certain time. Most seem to just go to bed at around 10 or 11 on their own.

Answer 9

Setting a bed time never really worked for my son.

If he was late for school he really didn't care.

Then the summer between his 2nd and 3rd year of high school, he got his license and I let him have my 11 year old car after I got a new one. Not any 11 year old car but a red convertible.

He was allowed to drive to school and that was the best thing in the world, you see he offered to take not one, but three other really cute girls to school each morning.

Although he didn't care about being late for school himself those girls, (and they all knew his previous track record of being late a lot for school), let him know that if he made them late, they would have to go back to riding the bus.

And he was never late again.

He started going to bed on his own, and his part time job at Blockbuster made him so busy he had to plan when to do his homework.

And actually when was busier, as a Junior and Senior in high school, his grades actually improved.

Answer 10

With my daughter, she has to be up in her room by 11 PM and she can only get out for a drink, or to use the bathroom. Then, she usually goes to sleep pretty soon after 11 unless she has HW or something that she needs to do.

I don't really FORCE her to go to sleep though, she just has to stay in her room.