How Long Do You Let Your Kids Sleep On Summer Vacation?

A viral TikTok video shows a mom asking how long she should let her teens sleep in while off from school.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're the parent of a teenager, we have a question
for you. It's one a six pointy seven LIGHTFM cubby
with Nina in for Christine producer. Christien's off today. So
here we are June third school winding down. Yes, I
know a lot of schools are not out yet, but
we're you know, getting here.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're thinking about what you're going to do this summer
for sure, Yeah, making plans.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
And a mom on TikTok. Nina Huh asked a question.
It's a burning question if you have a teenager.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Question for parents of teenagers? How long are we letting
them sleep in during the summer? Do we wake them
up at all?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay, that's the question. Now I have a five year
old and a three year old. I don't have to
worry about this for a while, but like, what is
the deal? Like if you have a thirteen year old
or a fourteen year old, are they sleeping till eleven am?
Or do you wake them up? Or what's the deal?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't have a kid at so I don't know either.
What you think about yourself, Like when you were a teenager,
did you sleep in and how late did you sleep in?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I did till like like noon. Well it depends like
my early teenagers, like thirteen, fourteen, maybe, yeah, it was
like sleep until eleven thirty. And then at fifteen is
when I started getting the nudge from my parents, like,
you know, you should do stuff during the day, like
maybe get your first job. They've right, I think, And
so fifteen is when I got my first like job, Yeah,

(01:15):
I worked at a dairy queen. Yeah, and I was
a bus boy too at a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
What about you, So do you remember sleeping late?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I I remember when I did sleep late. I would
sleep till like eleven, but it wasn't every day I had.
I had ballet in the summer for years and years,
which I every day ballot six days a week, and
so you had to be up and class started at ten,
so you had if you have a thing to do
that you enjoy, that's going to make you more likely
to get up. And all these kids have camp now,
they have music camp and yeah, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So it's up to the parents almost to.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Another thing else their parents. Oh yeah, but also if
they get up and they grumpy, maybe you don't want
them up. You could get some stuff done right.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's what I'm thinking. One parent said, Hey, when they're sleeping,
they're not eating all the food in the house. Fair enough,
let them sleep. Another text here, two teenagers here, they're
sleeping in as long as they want so they aren't
bothering me.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Somebody texted in, you never wake a sleeping baby, same
applies with teenagers, and somebody else said, as long as
they want to, just make sure they're alive at least
once every couple hours, are yeah, right, so give us
a text four four, three six three Summer vacation parents,
how late do you let your teenagers sleep