<p>Since D has been home for Christmas break, even when she has no activities planned and stays home, she stays up until about 4 am and will sleep until 2 pm, if we let her.</p>
<p>Any others have this pattern? Do you try to influence them to live in the same time zone as the rest of the family?</p>
<p>Same deal. I don’t try to influence the time zone…but I also don’t tiptoe around my own housing during the day.</p>
<p>We have this goin’ on too…I did not try to influence the schedule because I figured he’d be back to his “college schedule” soon. He’s heading back today…<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Been going through this for years with older D (grad student) and now S (college freshman).As poster said above, I let them be but dont limit my daytime noise level and they must adjust their nighttime noises to let me sleep.There is a light at the end of the tunnel…older D complains she “can’t sleep” anymore…by which she means she needs to go to sleep earlier than before (maybe 1:30,2 a.m.) and wakes up earlier (maybe noon)!!</p>
<p>We routinely check our son for the growth of vampire fangs. Funny thing, I forgot to make sure he got in okay last night, and your post reminded me to check for the lump in his bed. It’s there.</p>
<p>Awe berurah, I know you’re going to miss your son bunches. {{{hugs}}}</p>
<p>In my house, the dogs get up pretty early and by 9 AM they’re barking at every workman who shows up to work on the house next door (under construction). No one sleeps late ;)</p>
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<em>lol</em> I run to the window and look for the car in the wee hours of the a.m.!</p>
<p>Thanks for the hugs, sweetie…I really needed 'em today…</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>We lovingly refer to DS’s room as the “Bat cave.” I shouldn’t be surprised at his nocturnal lifestyle – it’s pretty much what he had as an infant, except he sleeps more now!</p>
<p>They sleep in their rooms…?</p>
<p>Mine is a fixture on the living room couch all, um, “morning”. But we’re at work anyway, so we just get to see his sweet unconcious form on our way out.</p>
<p>(To put in perspective, his room is more like a glorified closet–about 6X6, one small window, no TV, computer, or, for that matter, visible floor. Not nearly as cosy as the LR sofa.)</p>
<p>Youngest S is in 9th grade. When he consistently sleeps for 9+ hours straight, we start ordering new clothes, as he invariably grows another inch. He’s now at 6’3" and size 14 shoes, with no end in sight.</p>
<p>College attendees older S and D just stay up late and sleep in - they have stopped growing, thankfully.</p>
<p>My S lived a different time zone his entire winter break. He was usually up until I woke up at 5 or 6 a.m., then he’d head off to bed and sleep until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. I struggled a bit with it, but gave up - I really think it was his way of remaining separate during his break. I tried to use food as an incentive to live in my time zone but he seemed happy with eating cold cereal before he went to bed and having lunch as his first meal of the day. My biggest worry was would he be able to get up for classes when he returned to school.</p>
<p>Oh, yes! 2:30 AM to bed, 12N - 1PM to rise… makes a man MISS BREAKFAST!!! It’s not that I can’t relate, though. I was always a late night person, but much less so now. </p>
<p>S is already back at school - they have one of the shorter breaks. Just when we were getting used to havin’ him around again! Berurah, ((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))) - as you said recently, they’ll be BACK!
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<p>Been getting to bed around 2-3 a.m., sometimes later. My mom has commented that next winter I should get a job on the night shift somewhere. This week and next, around 6:45-7:30 in the morning, I have been/will be miserable–my room right over the garage. My mom leaves at 6:45. Open/close. My dad leaves at 7 with my sister. Open/close. The high school senior who lives with us leaves around 7:15. Open/close. Dog barks as my brother’s friend rings the doorbell around 7:20. Brother (junior at same high school as senior, but drives separate b/c senior wrestles in afternoon/evening) and his friend leave around 7:30. Open/close. Even with 8 a.m. classes I was rarely out of bed before 7:40. (10 minutes to eat cereal and drink juice, put on weather/appropriate clothes, 10 minutes to walk).</p>
<p>I usually get up around 11 and put some eggs on the pan. I usually take a nap around 4 or 5 for an hour. Up early today because I’m visiting my high school to find out why the headmaster got the boot.</p>
<p>I saw no need to adjust to “normal” time. Class start times for second semester M,T,W,Th,F are 10, 12:30, 9, 12:30, 10, respectively.</p>
<p>I will have to wake up at around 9ish Saturday morning so I can see about a girl down in California, Md. (St. Mary’s County). Oh well, I’m sure the 2-hour drive will wake me up. :)</p>
<p>I think they’re just hard wired that way at that age. This winter break I dragged my boys to work to do some clerical stuff for me and the piteous cries which arose from their beds when I woke them at the crack o’dawn (i.e. five minutes before we rolled out of the garage at 8) were heart-rending.</p>
<p>Mine is out and gone by 5:00 a.m. for practice, workouts. Off-mornings she makes me get up to be out and gone with her for 6:00 a.m. workouts. But then she goes back to the gym with me at 9:00 p.m. for more working out. Plus she goes out at night with friends. I don’t get when she sleeps, but, after three straight weeks of her, I’m exhausted, though five pounds lighter without even trying. </p>
<p>I’m going to hurry and schedule a business trip somewhere, book a hotel, hurry up and hop on a plane, so I can get some rest, and sleep late.</p>
<p>That’s totally normal. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>pyewacket, you beat me to the question! I had a paragraph all written and attempted to post it 2 days ago, when the server went down. I saved it until today, and here is the thread already started!</p>
<p>YES…we have the same problem, which has been getting worse over time. This break my s. has been staying awake until 4-6am!!! (and sleeping until about 3-4pm). </p>
<p>I know all teens have a later shift in sleeping habits, but 5 am? He eats breakfast when we eat supper!!!</p>
<p>Feeling a 5am bedtime was NOT NORMAL, we were going to intervene, and start waking him up earlier. Surely his inner clock would shift. Then, I started comparing notes with family and friends. They were all complaining of the same situation. Night hours typically until 2-4 am, and sleeping hours typical until 2-4pm!!! Is this a common phenomenon? Is there a reason for this shift? Cell phones? Internet? College campus living? (all of the above?) Do students keep later hours simply to be able to talk on free cell time, and then it becomes habit?</p>
<p>In some respects I feel short-changed. Although he has a nice long break, we barely see him. Our time clocks are just not in sync. </p>
<p>I’m also curious if this is to be typical of the future. I assumed this will all change when he enters the business world, but then read about “companies of the future” (especially in his chosen major CS), which allow their workers to work whenever they want.</p>
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Our son seems to adjust fairly easily back to a more normal scheudle. This coming semester, he will have two 8:00 a.m. classes, and he doesn’t typically have any problems with those. Our son never had this schedule before coming back from college for the first time, so I’m assuming that he will adjust to whatever he needs to when he goes to work later on.</p>
<p>My son has been sleeping to one or two regularly, once to 2:30. Often I wake him up by hiding the dogs biscuits in son’s bed and then letting our big old golden retreiver hunt for them. Unfortunately, our dog is also willing to take a doggy nap with son after he finds his biscuits, and then it will be another 40 minutes until both are really up.</p>
<p>My daughter, otoh, only did that once and afterwards woke around 10 am daily. She also went to bed closer to midnight. If one can fill up on sleep, I think he’s done it this break. Two more nights for him in that comfy bed.</p>
<p>When son goes back on Sat., I have to get my sleep back on regular schedule. Since kids have been home, I adjusted to their schedule and have been up to about 3am every night and sleep in till around 8. Kids are usually up by 11 or 12 and we have breakfast then!</p>