What time should a 16 year old go to bed?

Question

while watching wife swap on sunday, the woman who did the rule change was trying to get the 16 year old to go to bed at 9pm. i mean i was going to bed whenever i wanted at the age. what do you think

Answer 1

yes i was going to bed at whatever time i wanted at that age too!

Answer 2

A person needs 7-8 hours of sleep to be properly rested and restored. Since a 16 year old is still a minor and living under the roof of their parents, it is the responsibility of the parent to ensure that they are doing what is best for the health and well being of the minor. That means if they have to get up at 6am to get ready to go to school, they need to go to bed by 10.  

Answer 3

i when i was that age my parents didn't care what i did but  i would try to be in bed by 11 to get up at 5"30

Answer 4

you should let your child choose his/hers own borders let them sleeparound a bit(not sexually)and then you come to a good agreement with your kid.it builds caracter.

Answer 5

when i was that age..my mom would just suggest that i try to be in bed by at least 11..just because she wanted me to be rested for school..but she didnt inforce it at all...same ehre pretty much whatever time i wanted

Answer 6

at that age id left home and had a job in bodmin (fun and sunny), as far away as i could get from hartlepool, mind i had to go back to college and uni when i was older, but you need your sleep if studying!!

Answer 7

My parents were very strict and I went to bed not long after 9 when I was 16 - part of that was that I was the oldest and they tended not to let me do stuff until my 2 younger siblings could do it too. So I went to bed at 8pm until I was about 14 because that was when the youngest of us was old enough to stay up till 9, our bedtimes were all the same.

My 14 yo goes at 9.30 usually, occasionally 10. But I usually go around 10.30 myself.

Answer 8

I think by 16 a kid should be starting to manage their time properly, and should understand what it means to go to bed late and wake up feeling like c**p, or go to bed at a reasonable hour and feel well in the morning.

it's like doing homework: I'll ask my 16 y/o if she's got some, of if she's finished, but I won't stand over her.

She needs to learn to be responsible at this point...

Answer 9

I didn't have a bedtime at 16.  You're practically an adult.

Answer 10

im 16 and i go to bed at 10 on a school night and between about 10 and 12 on a normal night

Answer 11

When I was sixteen I went whenever I wanted as well. When my children get there, I don't think I will enforce a bed time. I think they will be old enough to understand the consequences of staying up all night and having to go to school the next day.  

Answer 12

9 pm is ridiculously early for a 16 year old.  When my daughter was 16, she began to take responsibility for her own bedtime -- she knew she had to get up at 6:15 am, and she usually tried to get to bed by 11 pm.  Sometimes homework kept her up a little later, but otherwise, she's not a night owl, and would be sound asleep by 11.

It helps if you take their cell phone away from them after 10 pm -- somehow, things seem to get done faster, after that. :-)  

Answer 13

i go to bed about 10ish or 11 on a school night, soon to be collage night but now its holidays i come upstairs at 10 - 11 and stay on ther pc on msn and stuff still like  3 or 4. cause i dont have to get up

Answer 14

lol what ever age they want i guess

im 16 and used to go to bed at like 5am and get up at 10am

but since falling pregnant i like have went to bed at like 9pm lol and get up at like 10am and still im tired all day lol

Answer 15

We make our son go to bed at 10PM - so he needs to start winding down at around 9:30.

Like everybody, if you don't get enough sleep, you don't want to get up in the morning and then you're tired all day.  

It's just a matter of maturity - some kids are better at self regulating, some can't get off the PC unless forced.  By the time I was a Junior in HS, I was always going to bed at 9PM in order to get up at 6AM.

Answer 16

I think at 16 my bedtime was 10pm.

Answer 17

During term time I would say 10 pm as they've still got to learn, regardless of their age, and if we kept going later and later to bed the older we get then when you gt past 30 you wouldn't sleep!  In the holidays I let my daughter stay up to whenever we go to bed, we don't want to be woken up as we have work in the morning and someone's got to pay the bills!

Maybe you can still get up at 7, but your brain will be less productive than someone with enough sleep, you will make silly mistakes and not even notice.

Answer 18

8 hours of sleep is a must, unless you want bags

Answer 19

They should go whenever they want, but within reason.  No point in falling asleep on the settee!

Answer 20

About 10, stops them from lying in and becoming lazy