<p>My day sleeper is home on a two week break and I couldn’t care less if she does chores while home. She works so hard at school, gets great grades, has a busy life, etc. She’ll be right back to the daily grind soon enough. Sleep, baby, sleep.</p>
<p>While I’m not marching into anybody’s room at noon and flicking on the lights, I just don’t think it’s really healthy to be consistently sleeping THAT late. It’s not as though they are staying up til all hours; they are hanging out with each other and in bed by midnight, so yeah, the first few days they slept til the afternoon, but after a while it’s like - c’mon, guys, it’s reasonable to be out of bed by noon. Right now it’s 8:30 am, I’m working at home and I’ll be quiet since they are both sleeping, but I’m not going to keep the house artificially quiet after noon if they are still sleeping. That’s when I send the dog in to wake them up :-)</p>
<p>After 300 years, I think for the most part, Ben Franklin had it right!</p>
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An observation: I find that we keep feeding our “baby” while he is back at home for a break, especially for a relatively short break like a winter break.
If it were not the case that he exercises a lot, he would gain weight!</p>
<p>When he gets back to school in a few days, we will have a lot of unfinished food, cooked and uncooked, in our refrigerator. We also bought snacks for him to bring back to schools. And it is our once-in-year opportunity to see what he needs, like shoes, smartphone upgrade, clothes, etc. (A “new” item this time is a small gifts from US, besides him, to his new GF because her parents gave him some gifts before.)</p>
<p>In other words, we shop like crazy in this period and we ourselves also eat too much - the credit card bill we will receive next month will definitely be very high :(</p>
<p>DS’s and his friends are not going to bed by midnight. You get 4 or 5 guys together and they will end up spending the night at one of their houses. They will stay up most of the night talking then crash , wake up and go home about 10 am. While it’s not every night they may do this for 3 or 4 days in a row because they go to different colleges and only get to see each other on breaks… On those days DS is usually sleeping till 3 pm. I really don’t care. They are only young once. </p>
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<p>Not necessarily true. In bed=/=sleeping, especially if the bedroom is not a tech-free zone.</p>
<p>It’s also not necessarily unhealthy if that’s their normal schedule; I know most of the non-STEM fields are moving toward fewer 8AM courses because students refuse to take them. If they’re taking afternoon/evening classes and then staying up late studying/reading/socializing, it makes sense and is much easier to get your days and nights flipped.</p>
<p>Never really had college kids sleeping through vacation, since they both were seeing friends and busy with other activities, but we just picked up our dog after almost a week away, and all he is doing, is sleeping!</p>
D has been feeling rather poorly since Christmas Eve, so she is doing a LOT of sleeping and resting in her room. Sadly, she is afraid of getting me and others sick, so she doesn’t venture out of her room much. I am glad she has virtual friends to keep her company in her convalescence. It is sadly, NOT uncommon for her or me to take one or two weeks to get over an infection, even with antibiotics. . Happily, she has NOT shared her infection with S or H and she believes I may have given her the infection, tho I’m not sure about that.
Both of my kids enjoy going to sleep late (midnight is an early night for them). They also both enjoy waking late and we are lucky if we see them before lunch. We do eat dinner as a family most nights while they are in town (unless they have a rare evening or other time with friends). We have been spending a lot of time with extended family, which we have enjoyed.
Hopefully D will get well in time to spend time with her beloved cousins, who are in town for the holidays. She did enjoy playing with them on Christmas Eve, but hasn’t seen them much since. 
According to a recent post by mom2ck, he may have a depression problem.
Have you scheduled an appointment with a psychiatrist to have him evaluated and to prescribe some medicine?
@HImom , wish your D has a fast recovery.
Yea, feel sad for her, but she’s a trooper. Thx.
It used to really bother me when my teenagers slept until noon. But when i think of their schedules when school is in session I realize they deserve to do what they want on breaks. Between their academic responsibilities, athletics and EC’s they are always on the run. Most teenagers today are over-scheudled and stressed. So I let them sleep.
Their schedules have kind of voided breakfast in our house. If I set up a small breakfast spread it all just goes stale so I no longer bother. They just grab juice or coffee when they manage to roll out of bed. I have managed to get them up early a few mornings for breakfast out. We have some really great and interesting breakfast places in out town so we have all gone out a few times.
I am with you…I think its lazy. My concern is that is sets up really poor priorities and habits. One of my kids started out with 8:oo classes, shouldnt be a big deal since the high school started at 715. Then second semester first class was 9:00. First semester sophomore year, first class is 11:00…you see the pattern. I am really concerned with the need to be on instagram and twitter until the wee hours of the morning. It really is an addiction. If you conform to that schedule for four years in college, I am mighty afraid of you being prompt and prepared when you have a real job. You just cant keep that schedule. Both of mine have done very well in college so far, but that is not the point. You cant keep this schedule and function with a 9-5 job. My ODS does not live and die by social media, so no worries with him, but my DD…I worry.
No worries, the dog is back to normal.
He didn’t need ssris, just to go on a few good walks to see that the neighborhood is still as he left it.
H calls it " checking his pee mail"!