All Night Long

I remember my sleep being all out of whack due to the summer break. I remember my mom calling us several times during the day to ensure we hadn't killed one another and that we had infact cleant the house and whatnot.

My biggest thrill of summer break was being able to stay up and watch this cartoon that came on at midnight. It was a competition my sister and competed with one another on. We considered ourselves cool if we made it to see that cartoon at night.

You're a cool mum! I think everyone's sleep is outta whack in the summer. I know mine is.

I can't remember a time where I didn't have to do something in the mornings. As a child or an adult.... Whre I grew up we generally went to school all year with 2 week breaks here and there.

Regardless, when I was with my family, I was always allowed to stay up as late as I needed/wanted. Both my parents thought learning to set my own sleep cycles was an important lesson to learn.

I think it's sweet that the ladies get late night time together.

My mom and I used to stay up a good portion of the night playing video games. I loved that time. Unfortunately, because I've always had to work, I really didn't get to do that with my daughter, but she did get to stay up as late as she wanted in the summer. I agree, too soon and Kali will no longer have that option.

My son is 14, he lives for weekends and summers to stay up all night, who knows what time I'm sleep no later than 1am, he averages about 3am, im sure. He wakes up at 2pm to call me at work to say im up. An hour later, he's on his way to the pool.

I allow it and let him enjoy it, because you're right this was his last summer for that, next year he will indeed be punching in at someone's Summer Youth Program at 9am.

School starts 8/31 and he has to be there at 7:05 am school bus comes at 6:35am, I will put him back on his 10pm bedtime, probably a week before, he has never given me any problems getting up in the mornings.

I know with that school schedule he will be begging to go to bed, probably before 10pm. lol

Yeah, but those first couple weeks back are a bitch. I remember those days

When I was about 10 or 11, I loved getting up at the @ss crack of dawn. I loved sneaking out to the den, playing music low and watching the sun rise. My mother, grandmother and the rest of the neighborhood was still asleep. I could pretend the sun was just for me. By the time I turned 13, 14, I did a 180 and would stay up all night or get up in the middle of the night. There's something about tiptoeing around the house while everybody was sleep. It made me feel like I was getting away with something even though I wasn't doing a damn thing but listening to my record player, sneaking cookies, and reading books by flashlight!

this isn't really related but an interesting story I thought... two girlfriends of mine have crackhead mothers. Both friends are wonderfully strong, independent, ambitious and successful women, and both of their mothers are still crackheads. Both girls were accustomed to staying up late or all night with their crackhead mothers and both are fearless in ways I could only dream of. Both of them keep the weirdest hours ever--it is not uncommon for either of them to stay up til 4 in the morning, just doing normal house stuff. When most people start yawning, they are wide awake. Weird.

So yeah I didn't really have a point, ha! Kids staying up all night in the summer is great, I loved watching MTV with all the doors open, back in like 1988, and they definitely need a parent to monitor getting their sleep schedule back on track for the school year.

My boys stay up just a little bit later, not much though. I remember though staying up much later though at their age. They get so grumpy though and kind of beg to go to bed.

Hey did you get me tweet about the book you was looking for? The Dice Man...

I could never stay up late. I guess playing ball all damn day wore my ass out.
And I love breakfast too much to miss it.

I think it's great that you let Kali stay up. My grandparents were really strict so I ALWAYS had a bed time. The only time I was allowed to stay up all night was when I spent the night at a friends or at my fathers or some other realtives that weren't directly linked to my grandmother.

Even when I had my own slumber party, my grandmother made all our asses go to bed at midnight!

My father's was always the best though, it was me and my 3 brothers. Our ages went one right after the other (13,12,11,10,9...they are my step brothers). The boys had one big bedroom in the basement and I slept down there with them when I would stay for the summers. We would stay up all night watching movies and "In Living Color" We would roughhouse and build forts out of blankets, pillows and bed frames. We could make all the noise in the world, our parents bedroom was on the otherside of the house and upstairs but we would act like if someone got loud, daddy would be down with the belt. It was so much fun. Kali is lucky to have parents that let her experience things like that :)

My favorite memories include playing hide and go seek until the sun came up in my grandmother's woods. We were not teenagers yet, but my brother and I and some cousins would do this once a summer at least!!!

Some more favs include hanging out all night in the treehouse. OR staying up with the older cousins watching horror movies (we weren't supposed to! LOL) OR here recently.....spending all night catching up with friends whilst camping!!!

My kids stay up as late as they want during the summer. The twins are 10 and Austin is 12. Of course "as late as they want" usually only lasts until about 2am so I don't have a HUGE problem with it.. I'm usually up that late anyways.

My general rule is that I make them start going to bed at regular school time on August 1st. School starts on the 25th so usually WELL before school starts they are back on their regular schedules.

This year will be tough though for the oldest. He starts middle school and has to be at school by 6:45 each morning. I take him to school so that means leaving the house by 6:30 at the least. Which means getting up at 5:45. That's a full hour and a half earlier than he had to get up last year. So there's part of me that wants to make his school night bedtime 30 minutes earlier to try to compensate...

My sleeping habits change during summer too but I guess thats just apart of growing up. I find myself taking naps literally. I nap for two hours, take a 30 minute break, sleep again and this goes on till i get up for work. I miss being a kid sometimes. Summer was so cool not having to work just stay home and be a kid. As an adult, well, you get called a bum for doing so... I dont wanna get called a bum for it... I wanna be called a "teacher" with student benefits lmao