OHbaby! Forums : When you were growing up.. https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 14:17:02 +0000 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:11:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12627 <![CDATA[OHbaby! Forums]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I have found in every school I&#039;ve...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255718&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255718 Author: emz
Subject: 12627
Posted: 30 November 2007 at 11:11pm

I have found in every school I've had a section at (so 6) that the Korean children in the class are often going to bed at about midnight or 1am. One child recently at 9 years of age was made to memorise parts of the dictionary every night. His parents thought it would help him learn English but he was too tired to do his EAL classes at school so was falling behind, causing trouble do to tiredness and quite frankly just being a pain in the butt for everyone who had to deal with him.

We were always 8.30ish as mum got home at 6.30 (Dad was a SAHD), so we got to spend time with her. I stopped having a bedtime when I was about 12 because I loved sleep so much that I would go to bed quite early anyway.]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:11:23 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255718&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255718 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Bombshell wrote:LOL Teresa!!!!!!!!...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255637&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255637 Author: Kels
Subject: 12627
Posted: 30 November 2007 at 9:29pm

Originally posted by Bombshell Bombshell wrote:

LOL Teresa!!!!!!!!

I recall vividy sitting at my window sill watching kids play on the road during daylight savings and thinking i was the only kid in the world who was in bed by 7 30!!! and how unfair it was! 

Omgosh that was sooo me too. A pity we didnt live across the road from each other we could have made up our own sign language lol so for me while at primary it was 6.30pm and then when I go to college it was 8.30pm until I got to 5th form then it was my choice.

In our house:

Lesieli 12yrs: 8pm
Mercedes 6yrs: 7.30pm
And Alize by his own choice goes to bed at 7pm

I have the whole night to myself yippee

]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:29:54 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255637&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255637 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Jennz - love that photo!! our...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255156&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255156 Author: Bombshell
Subject: 12627
Posted: 30 November 2007 at 8:09am

Jennz - love that photo!!

our asian tenants put the kids to bed when they get home, and then they are up half the night!!! I knwo they have been running around at 3am - these ones are malaysian but one lot of korean tenants did the same thing....and then they wonder why they wont concentrate in school.... mind you the girl is seven and the mother still spoon feeds her her meals too!!! I have taken NO mothering tips from her! ]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:09:45 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255156&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255156 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I went to bed at 7- I think I...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255134&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255134 Author: Jennz
Subject: 12627
Posted: 30 November 2007 at 3:05am

I went to bed at 7- I think I was allowed up til 7.30 from my 8th birthday as a 'present'. That went up to 8 at 10 and when I started high school I was allowed to judge for myself but I usually went by 9 anyway.

I distinctly remember the first time I stayed up until midnight- I was 9 and none of my friends believed me!]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:05:34 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255134&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255134 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Totally agree Debs. We were like...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255124&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255124 Author: Leish
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:58pm

Totally agree Debs. We were like that with Christopher a bit and wasn't till I started working and we had to get him up at 6 in the morning that we realised we were doing him a huge disservice. ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:58:27 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255124&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255124 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : if you ask me thats what happens...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255102&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255102 Author: Bizzy
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:41pm

if you ask me thats what happens when little (1 yr olds etc)kids are left to fall asleep when they want... cause when they get older why would they want to be in bed at 7.30????    ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:41:18 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255102&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255102 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I never had a bed time when growing...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255097&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255097 Author: Leish
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:38pm

I never had a bed time when growing up. I was a perfect angel at school though and never played up even though I didn't get anywhere near enough sleep.

Christopher on the other hand is the most awful horrible person to be around when he hasn't had enough sleep. His behavious deteriorates in class and he doesn't listen and loses his temper really easily. Only in the last two weeks have we started letting him go to bed at 8.30. Till then it was 8.00 with no late night on the weekends. If he has a late night on the weekends, he is just awful the next day and just isn't old enough to be able to deal with being tired.

We are really anal about his routine cos he needs it. I don't know how my parents ever successfully managed to bring up three reasonably sane children with the complete lack of routine and structure!!]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:38:02 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255097&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255097 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : 8:30 was it for me for a little...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255087&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255087 Author: yummymummy
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:30pm

8:30 was it for me for a little while. I think Weekends started to be an exception - prob Saturday only - once I was about 7 I think. One I got to 13-14 though, bedtime was really anything as I've always been more productive at night and find it easier to study etc. I'm def in owl, not whatever the morning ppl are called. Even on massive amounts of coffee I just barely function in the morning - my best working hours are after lunch and then into the night
As for Gina, she goes to bed around 8:30-9:00 normally at the moment.]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:30:54 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=255087&title=when-you-were-growing-up#255087 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : 7.30 primary, 8.30 from about...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254964&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254964 Author: fattartsrock
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:30pm

7.30 primary, 8.30 from about 10 to 13? the 9 -9.30 till end of 5th formish.

I sooo agree, having had DSS in my life from age 10, I can see what a wreck he often is form having no strict bedtime. This last year in particular (he's 15) often still up at midnight!!! grrrr]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:30:25 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254964&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254964 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : For me it was 7:30 and it got...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254962&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254962 Author: Bubbaloo
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:29pm

For me it was 7:30 and it got moved to about 9 when we started high school.]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:29:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254962&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254962 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : we always had to be in bed by...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254927&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254927 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:13pm

we always had to be in bed by 7.30pm. we didn't graduate to 8.30pm til i was in high school! ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:13:05 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254927&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254927 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : When we were in japan my friend...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254916&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254916 Author: lizzle
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:04pm

When we were in japan my friend who was from england had a little boy same age as Jake (ajke was under 1). He asked me when Jake slept and I said he went to bed at 7. His little boy went to sleep at 1am!!!! I say "sleep" as his family didn't believe in bedtimes, but that the child would sleep when tired. His little boy was a very vague child in my opinion - cause he was so tired all the time I think

We also had problems with kids of school age going to bed so late - school, then after school activities, then cram school, then home, then tea, then homework, bed at 11am, back up at 6 to get ready for the next day. So sleeping in class was accepted. and then of course you had more homework cause you';d slept thorugh the lesson. Crazy.

I always put myself to bed before 8 - i had a choice often. And by 10:30 for high school]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:04:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254916&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254916 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : My kids go to bed at 8.30 now....]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254882&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254882 Author: shaz
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 8:30pm

My kids go to bed at 8.30 now. Mainly because I have always worked so it gives me a bit longer to get dinner, do homework and spend some time together.
When they were a bit younger 5-7ish they went at 8pm but it gets harder hard to fit everything in as they get older.
Natasha sometimes stays up until 9 or 9.30 but not twice in a row and she will be 12 on Saturday.
In the school holidays I let them stay up late sometimes but I like my quiet time to have a cuppa and read my book in peace before i go to bad by 10, I'm such a Nanna. ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:30:20 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254882&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254882 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : LOL Teresa!!!!!!!! I recall...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254869&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254869 Author: Bombshell
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 8:20pm

LOL Teresa!!!!!!!!

I recall vividy sitting at my window sill watching kids play on the road during daylight savings and thinking i was the only kid in the world who was in bed by 7 30!!! and how unfair it was!

I think 8pm tops for under 10, and from there it depends....the kids behnd us are both under 10 annd come 10 30pm they are STILL up...that is absurd!!! and their parents are teachers too!!!! ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:20:07 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254869&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254869 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : At primary school I think I was...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254792&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254792 Author: MummyFreckle
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 6:15pm

At primary school I think I was in bed by 7pm, but maybe 8pm when it was school holidays (especially in summer). At high school 3rd / 4th form it was 8.30 / 9pm then no rules after that!

 

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:15:14 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254792&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254792 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I was one of those kids that needed...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254784&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254784 Author: Bel
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 5:41pm

I was one of those kids that needed sleep and we used to be in bed about 6.30 at primary school and was always in bed before 8.30 at high school. I am still early to bed now (or was before Luke came along)]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:41:40 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254784&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254784 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I can&#039;t remember for me and...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254757&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254757 Author: AnnC
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:59pm

I can't remember for me and high school I don't remember it being a bedtime..

but for my kids

Brooke 8.30pm

and Josh now gets to be around 9.30-10pm

when they were younger at school it would be bed 8pm no later than 8.30pm but normally in bed before that.
]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:59:33 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254757&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254757 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : 7.30 for primary school. 9.30...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254745&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254745 Author: Bumble
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:47pm

7.30 for primary school. 9.30 for high school.

even now it is generally 9.30 - ish!]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:47:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254745&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254745 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : 7.30-8pm when I was primary age...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254742&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254742 Author: busymum
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:43pm

7.30-8pm when I was primary age and 8.30pm until the day before my wedding - no kidding! Although I breached that rule!!!!! *rolls eyes*]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:43:32 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254742&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254742 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Cant remembver what it was at...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254737&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254737 Author: Kellz
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:39pm

Cant remembver what it was at primary school,...but it was always 8.30pm at high school]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:39:12 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254737&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254737 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Yeah I think it was 7:30 moving...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254734&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254734 Author: Bobbie
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:32pm

Yeah I think it was 7:30 moving up to 8pm for me as I got older.]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:32:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254734&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254734 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : I was 7.30 from memory, but would...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254729&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254729 Author: Sarah Beth
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:16pm

I was 7.30 from memory, but would stay up late and watch Macgyver or Flying Doctors one night a week, but could not watch both. Now most the time it is 8.30 as I have always needed my sleep]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:16:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254729&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254729 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Kiya, age 6.5 (Yr 2) is normally...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254721&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254721 Author: daikini
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:06pm

Kiya, age 6.5 (Yr 2) is normally in bed at 7pm and lights out at 7:30pm. We let her stay up a little longer at the moment since it's still so hot and warm in the evenings but she's still being tucked in well before 8pm. I guess we'll review after her birthday in March but at the moment either Nat or myself is having to wake her to get ready for school in the morning so there's no way she's getting a later bedtime that that yet!]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:06:51 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254721&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254721 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Primary for the first few years...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254720&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254720 Author: mummy_becks
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:06pm

Primary for the first few years we were in bed at 7.30 and it gradually got later as we got older. Once I hit high school (5th form) I didn't have a bed time.

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:06:29 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254720&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254720 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : Primary school age I had to be...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254715&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254715 Author: Mama2two
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:00pm

Primary school age I had to be in bed by 8pm and even early high school was 9 with lights out at 9.30.
It seems crazy to me since kids need like 12 hours sleep! No wonder they are so tired during the day!]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254715&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254715 <![CDATA[When you were growing up.. : ... what time did you go to bed?...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254712&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254712 Author: kebakat
Subject: 12627
Posted: 29 November 2007 at 3:56pm

... what time did you go to bed? (I'm thinking primary school age)

I was always in bed by 8:30..

BIL is complaining because its report time of the year (hes a teacher) and in lots of his reports he has written that it would be helpful if their child wasn't tired every day at school from staying up so late at night. He said theres kids in his class that stay up til 10 or 11 at night! I was never allowed to do that when I was lil! No wonder the lil guys are tired for school!]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:56:28 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12627&PID=254712&title=when-you-were-growing-up#254712