<p>Or maybe he just doesn’t sleep at all from 5:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. and is trying to set records for most naps by a college student!</p>
<p>At least he’s happy when I catch him awake!!</p>
<p>momofthree, that is funny! My husband calls my son ‘dracula’ because he comes alive after 9 PM, goes to bed at 6 AM and is never awake during our waking hours…</p>
<p>Me: Were you up real late last night? Like til 3 or 4 am??</p>
<p>Him: uhhhh… no</p>
<p>Me: Then why are you still in bed at 2pm???</p>
<p>Achat and NJres,</p>
<p>Don’t know how you handle this, but I do not make any extra effort to be quiet while the night owls are sleeping in (high school son is just as much into staying up all night). . .we are not noisy folks, but I want to be able to live my life fully during the DAY. 'Course I expect them to be completely silent after 10:30! I think they are okay with that, cause they know if they wake me up it is sure not to be pretty.</p>
<p>LOL! My HS son has this also. He’s sleeping essentially midnight to noon - 12 hours every 24 hours. I told him that he is missing out on a whole lot of life - about 4 hours of life each day! (And no, he’s not growing. He’s been 6’2" for 3 years now…)</p>
<p>S’s waking hours this vacation seem to be 3 p.m. to 3 a.m.</p>
<p>My kids had their days and nights reversed twice during their lives: first as infants, then as college kids. Both times, it passed (they are newly in the workforce).</p>
<p>The other night I was woken up at 4AM by the smell of pizza. I thought I was dreaming until I found S in the kitchen with his freshly baked (from frozen) pizza. </p>
<p>I was thrilled this AM when both kids were up and clean and civil by 11 AM!</p>
<p>Another mum who doesn’t turn down the volume because boys are asleep. Christmas music? On at volume 67 so I can hear it in the kitchen. </p>
<p>No matter. They snooze through the noise…</p>
<p>Well, my son has a serious case of night-owl-itus. And, it’s not just vacation related as we discovered when we received the bill for his cell phone last month and found he had rung up $568 in phone calls made between midnight and 4 a.m. to a girl in Pennsylvania he met at CTY last year. Mind you, this occurred on week nights WHILE he had at least one local girlfriend and this was NOT to the “girlfriend” he’d had at CTY. After the bill came in, my daughter vaguely recalled waking to go to the bathroom one night, passing the door to his room, and hearing him reading in ancient Greek to this girl. He sleeps in the car on the hour drive to and from school. Apparently, that’s all the sleep a growing boy with a harem of love interests needs. :)</p>
<p>Carolyn,</p>
<p>Wowie!! I know this is probably not funny to you. . . especially since I think your DS is starting this pretty young! But I do have to appreciate the idea of his reading Greek to his lady-“love”. What does he have to do to repay the debt? :)</p>
<p>LOL!!! Momof3… you have no idea how happy I am to have caught this thread! Have spent the last 3 months fretting over sons sleep cycle. Several times over this first semester, he would call around 11:30 pm our time (west coast) from CT time knowing I’d be awake… BUT (revealing my ancient yrs) I grew up in a time when phone calls after 11 pm meant EMERGENCY! Not so now, I guess!<br>
The thing is, you do realize, 11:30 pm here was 2:30 am there. And in the background of these calls you hear wild yelling, trombones & french horns. Don’t you think you should get some sleep I’d ask? Meh! he’d say I’m on west coast time. Well, he’s home for Christmas and he’s still up w/ his friends til at least 2 am. Does this mean when he goes back to school he’ll be up til 5-6 am? My nerves are shattering, but at least now I see I’m not completely alone. PS Husband sleeps thru the hole darn thing…</p>
<p>Quote>>He’s sleeping essentially midnight to noon<<</p>
<p>If only…my kid is doing the 5:00am to 2:00 pm sleep cycle. I’m up now because I heard him come home, and then I couldn’t go back to sleep!!</p>
<p>When D comes home this is the cycle in our home too…though HS senior S is following suit. I’ve called her a vampire for years.Would sleep till 2-3 PM if possible everyday.I think its a pretty normal schedule for college age kids, as another poster has said…its like an infants “reversed” schedule.
I go about the normal daytime /noise schedule…she seems to sleep right through.But woe is to her(and brother) if there’s too much turmult after about 11:30 when Mom passes out in anticipation of a 6:00 wakeup call(if Im lucky enough to sleep that long)</p>
<p>As I was lying in bed this morning thinking about S getting in at 2:00 a.m. and D getting in at 2:30 a.m. and what, if anything to do about it, I heard the sound of muffled laughter. As I struggled to discover its source, I suddenly realized that it was two people laughing, and recognized the sound as the laughing tones of my deceased parents, coming from inside my head.</p>
<p>What goes around comes around!</p>
<p>Carolyn:</p>
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<p>What a hoot! Add this phone bill to the hidden costs of attending CTY! who would have thought learning ancient Greek would be so expensive? :(</p>
<p>Seems I am NOT alone! </p>
<p>I confess I say a little prayer first thing every morning before I look outside to make sure the cars are in their places. I just can’t stay awake waiting till 4:00 a.m. Bad mom, bad bad mom.</p>
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<p>Isn’t that the truth? :D</p>
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OUCH Carolyn! Time to get a cell phone plan with unlimited weekend and after 9p.m. calls! My condolences! :)</p>
<p>that our children would be like the owls and turn into nocturnal creatures. I wonder if the sun hurts their eyes!</p>