When you were growing up..
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Topic: When you were growing up..
Posted By: kebakat
Subject: When you were growing up..
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 3:56pm
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... 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! |
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:00pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:06pm
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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. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:06pm
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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! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:16pm
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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 ------------- "> 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:32pm
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Yeah I think it was 7:30 moving up to 8pm for me as I got older. -------------  
 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:39pm
| Cant remembver what it was at primary school,...but it was always 8.30pm at high school |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:43pm
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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* -------------  |
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:47pm
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7.30 for primary school. 9.30 for high school.
even now it is generally 9.30 - ish! ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 4:59pm
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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. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 5:41pm
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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) ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
Luke (09.11.2007) Amy (01.04.2009) |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 6:15pm
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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!
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date 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!!!! |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 8:30pm
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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. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:04pm
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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 |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date 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! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:29pm
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For me it was 7:30 and it got moved to about 9 when we started high school. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 9:30pm
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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 ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:38pm
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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!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:41pm
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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???? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 29 November 2007 at 10:58pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 3:05am
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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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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 8:09am
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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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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 9:29pm
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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 I have the whole night to myself yippee ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Bombshell wrote:Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 11:11pm
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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. |