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Give your kid a big hug and tell her she can read books all day long, nights are for sleeping. Btw, how old is she?
9
I always put my kid in bed, leave the lights on and give her a set amount of time that's only for reading. I come back in after the 15-20mins and let her know it's time to go to bed. Sometimes I let her go extra mins so she feels like she's getting away with it, ha.
Yea i agree. If it's like extra 20 to 30 mins it should be fine. As long as they aren't up all night into 3am in the morning. School work isn't disrupted, behavior next day isn't bad etc.
I think i recall a meme on the dad fb groups how the kid thinks they're pulling a fast one on the parents.. Meanwhile the parents think they're pulling a fast on one the kids.
I’d let her do it. It will build good autonomy for her and she will learn to be in tune with her body queues for sleep. I’m sure every day is a little different as to what her sleep needs are. You can check out a book called Bringing Up Bebe which addresses this exact idea. It’s helped us a lot, super interesting.
I really liked that book. A French coworker recommended it to me. For some reason I really thought what I thought parenting was (before I became a parent) generally how parenting works for everyone. Obviously it's different within a country but wow significantly different across countries/cultures.
It was a fun read. And good to be open minded and even pick and choose which aspects align with your values vs you have to parent this way because that's "the way parenting is" (which there is no right way)
I have a Google Home device in my kids room. Whenever they want to read after I tuck them in their beds, I don’t say “no” as I want to encourage that. So I put a 10mins or whatever timer in Google home. When the time is up, kids put the books down themselves and sleep.
Absolutely!! Didn’t you cheat and stay up late to do stuff you weren’t supposed to? Now she is doing stuff that’s awesome and you should encourage it.
And like the others have said - put a soft limit and tell her that she is such an amazing reader and can read till end of the next chapter. Let her think she is in control :)
Leave her to it.
Maybe it helps her sleep. Tbh this let’s them understand their limits and teaches them to build a schedule for themselves
Would you apply the same amount of freedom for creative play like Legos?
Nah Legos enrage my kids when they break. Not a good wind-down activity ha.
I would rather have my kids read with proper light and not sneak it in the dark (for the sake of their eyes). And if my kids are in a groove with a book, I tend to let them stay up 15-20 min past bedtime. But with one, it because a regular part of her routine so we just backside up bedtime so she was in bed/under covers earlier. It definitely made it easier to have matching times for “lights out” for both kids.