Reply #38: I would speculate that your kids have a fairly free schedule then after school [View All]

[riderinthestorm]

On a normal "no extra curriculars" day, my daughter gets out of school at 2:30 pm and rides the bus home for an hour (we're rural and she gets carsick so she can't do her homework on the bus). She's at her "sports practice" (she's a very competitive rider) by 4 pm and rides for 2.5 hours. She inhales her dinner and is showering and getting her next day's school stuff together ready by 8 pm to START her homework.

Most days she's not even finished with her homework til 10:30 or so (she's a straight A student).

Now of course, she's in the school play so she has rehearsal til 5 pm daily. So add on another 2.5 hours unto the whole routine and most nights she isn't in bed til midnight.

Yes midnight. And she does NO socializing or computer time or anything else.

Her bus comes at 6:45 am and she is DRAGGING to get up at 6:30 am. It's a daily nightmare to rouse her.

I have no idea how you manage to get your teens into bed by 9 or 9:30 unless they have a short bus ride, no extracurriculars, or limited homework. My daughter is slammed. My 23 year old (who went to school in a different school district but faced the same kind of routine) was even more slammed as she was an overachiever and was in a ton of OTHER clubs as well as all the rest.