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Is this normal or a red flag?
AnnieO1234
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Okay so it's the Easter holidays, would you say it was normal for an otherwise healthy 13 year old to still be in bed at 3:30pm? They've not got up for food (mom dragged it to them) and they're sat in their pjs playing games?
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What time were they up until?
Gotta be honest... when I was a teenager and it was the holidays my parents might have thought I was asleep but often I'd be up playing games or reading books or something until 4 or 5am. I dunno but at that age sometimes your energy levels are completely out of flux with the times you should be sleeping.She would always like to say,
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My 11 year old only gets dressed if we're going out somewhere in the holidays. I wouldn't be doing a food delivery service to his room though. We have a saying in this house "M is for Mum not maid".0
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My DD is 17 and seems normal, not every day but once in a while.
Although taking food to them????? Nope. They are hungry, they come eat at the the right times.
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My 17 year old can stay in bed til about 2 pm but if not disturbed at all she could probably sleep twice round the clock and raise some money for charity.Never again will the wolf get so close to my door :eek:0
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I'm 30, live alone and quite regularly on days off turn off my alarm and stay in bed until early evening (or whatever time my stomach rumbling forces me to venture in to my kitchen). So for a teenager to be doing it in the holidays seems pretty normal to me if the parents are allowing it.It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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Is it the first day of the holidays? They're not actually asleep they're just having a 'duvet day'?
To be honest, if I had no chores to do and somebody prepared to bring me meals in bed I might do the same every now and then and I'm in my thirties.
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Seems normal enough to me. No meal delivery though!!0
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I can't imagine my parents would have allowed it at 13, though I did used to get up very late when I was an older teenager and had been out half the night :rotfl:0
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Is this really acceptable these days? I would never have been all owe to behave like that.Lost my soulmate so life is empty.
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hell yes... part of the joy of being a carefree teen.
But if they don't get up, they don't get fed!!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0
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