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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????    

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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.
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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!
Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3

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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!
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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

Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs
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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.
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