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What time is a reasonable bed time for a 15 girl?

My parents make me go to bed at 10.Is that a normal time for kids my age? I do okay in school and i dont have a horrible attitude,lots of friends.Just wondering

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It is not the time, it is the hours of sleep you require to be alert, not sleep deprived or cranky. Most teens require at minimum 8-10 hrs per night. So your parents should let you set the time for one week and you determine how you feel by weeks end. At age 15 parents need to back off. You are not a toddler who requires a strict bedtime schedule!

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they arent supper strict but if im in trouble they use ''my bedtime" against me
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Are they making you go to sleep or just go to your bedroom and turn off the television. Honestly I wish I could go to bed every night at 10 p.m. I also wish they would give me nap time at work the way they did in kindergarten.
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10 is a good time i think. when i was your age that when I went to bed. and still do lol when i have to work that is

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Anytime.....

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Lol I used to go to bed at 8 thanks for my mum -,- so your doing great lol

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i fought foreverrr to get my bedtime raised i think it was when i was 12 lol
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10-11pm. Give her time to get ready for her next day and finish up any homework.

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thanks for reminding me i gotta take 2 pages of history notes xD
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yes that is a good time to go to sleep

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I think it's too early. Biologically, teenagers have different circadian rhythms than adults. It's natural for a teenager to want to stay up late and sleep late. So it might be difficult for you to fall asleep by 10. That said, you do have to wake up early for school, I presume, so you need to make sure you get enough sleep. Perhaps you can ask them to give you a trial week in which you set your own bedtime, and prove to them that you can be responsible about it (and function well the next day) by not staying up all night.

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But it's also proven that if a teenager doesn't get at least 8 hours of sleep everyday it takes 2 weeks a day to regain that sleep
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well i get up at 6 am
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The real solution here is a near-impossibility. Schools should be starting later in the morning.
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I agree Becca but to get up at 6 a.m. you really would need to go to bed by 10 p.m. to feel rested.
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Then it's a very reasonable time. Trust me when you get older and to college you wont be able to wait to go to bed.
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Well your supposed to be getting 8 hours a day... That does seem pretty reasonable especially when your still pretty young.

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that is plenty late enough when we was close to that age and younger we had to go to bed and be asleep by dark !

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And walk a mile in the snow to school, unless we heard on the nightly radio broadcast that school was closed the following day ;-)
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yeah 10 thats cause i got kicked off the bus for throwing m80 s at the bus driver and we had holely $2 .00 shoes with bread bags over them to try and keep our feet dry and wearing hand me downs might even had been my sisters ! and school or not we had to shovel snow night night and day even in blizzards and the driveway was about a mile long ! kids got it so made these days !
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10 is a good time. Maybe you could propose in your room at 10 with radio low, reading, preparing for next day or whatever. Then lights out 10:30. If you can keep up the good work then maybe negotiate 10:30 in room lights out at 11. Teens sleep patterns do change making them wanting to stay up later and sleep later but your body is still growing and requires enough sleep to do everything it's supposed to do.

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m usally up till 11 watching tv so they arent super strict but if im in trouble they will use my "bedtime" against me and be like oh well ur bedtime is 10
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10 or 11 but on weekends I don't think she should give you a bed time if she has been

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What my parents do is I have to go to my room at 10 and turn off all electronics (ex. cell phone, laptop, etc.) and do something more 'calm' like read a book or something.
then i have to have lights out at 11.
i think that's a reasonable bedtime for a 15 year old :)
and on weekends, i don't have a bedtime. i just have to be quiet if others are sleeping

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my parents trust that i can maintain my sleep pattern. so i usually go to bed at 11 and wake up somewhere around 6:30 to 7:00. and im usually fine so i guess its okay to go to bed at ten. And plus think of it this way,your not going to bed at 8:30 like some people i know. ;)

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I believe curfew is at 10 and bed times at 10:30

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I would say 9 time to calm down 930 bed and sleep by 10

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Okay. Long answer coming up.

Teenagers need at least eight hours of sleep a night - the more, the better.

Don't get mad at me yet.

Teenagers also happen to have some of the wackiest internal clocks of all time - which is why I am writing this at 12:30 AM. We like to stay up late and sleep in in the morning!

However, the modern education system hasn't changed compared to the scientific research, so you have to keep going to bed at 10.

Now you can get mad at me.

(You can, as well, write a complaint letter to the school board.)

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why would i be mad? lol
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Controlling teenagers is a pipe dream. If you haven't taught them to self nurture by 15 years of age, you aren't going to. I really don't understand controlling parenting. Good luck with that.

My teenagers sometimes go to bed later than 10 and sometimes they are in bed by 7. I'm proud that they are attentive to their needs.
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10 Is good. Even though I go to bed later b/c I can't sleep.. I stare at a silent television.

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I usually sleep between 10-11 but if I sleep later than that, I can't concentrate at school and I sleep during after school which gives me less time to do homework and study

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Between 9-10 or after homework is done during school year.

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9pm to start preparing for school the next day (ie bath, getting books, homework together, picking out clothes for next day), and lights out by 10-10:30pm.

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10is ok but maybe you should go at 9:30 I would

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10:30 ish!!

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I think that reasonable because on weekdays that's what time I go to sleep and I'm 15 too (:

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10:00 pm is a reasonable time with my daughter.

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Any time I would think would be okay as long as you are getting the recommended 8 hours sleep.

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10:30

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11:50

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8:30 duhhhh

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I'm 15 and I go to bed at 12:45 every night and get up at 9. I have no problems. :)

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About 10 but some people differ, their mentbalizm may be different. Im 15 and i go to bed at about 10 or later and have to wake up at 6:30, but i always feel tired, i feel like i need to go to sleep at 9:30.

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1 in the morning :)

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i wud say from 9 to 11 pm :D but i sleep at 10 :)

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10:00 pm

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depends on how much hw.. but 10-11

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i'm 15 and i have to be in bed by 10:30-11:00 at the latest...

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when i was 15 i would stay up until about 2 am. i would put my homework off until like 11 and then stay up the whole night doing it. i go to bed at like 10 now and cant get up until 12 unless i have to. i think 10 or 11 is a good bed time for any teenager.

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Perhaps I missed it in the other answers but no one has asked what time you get up to go to school. So, let's start with that time. For the sake of my discussion say 7 AM. If, as others have said, you need 8 hours of sleep then bed time should be no later than 11PM. If, however, you get up at 5AM for school then bed time should be 9PM. Do the math and make your case.

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well i get up at 6 so perfect timing
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9:00

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10:30

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ugghh thats my bed time is 9.. and i still have a bad attitude

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I'm 21 and going to a very demanding college, If I'm lucky I'll get 4-5 hours, 2-3 some weeks, but you can bet I'll be sleeping like 10-12hrs every weekend. Everyone is different. I have some friends who get 4-5 hours every night and feel bright and perky until the wee hours of the morning... It all comes down to the number of hours you need to feel "normal" in the morning and throughout the day. Take centrum multi-vitamins if you have any worries; they contain the best of everything. -The books say 6-8hrs. Your 15, LIVE IT UP, you can sleep when your 40 lol (not the best answer but w/e)

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11:00-1:00

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10 is a very good time. Being a teenager is (as you know) quite an awkward process. You are continuously growing into an adult, and your body will be working hard out- making you more and more tired. it is important for teens to get lots of sleep, though we don't tend to do. it's is almost fact that quite a high percentage of teens like to take up very late, but sleep in. But because of school, we have to wake early, making our sleeping hours shorter- which can make you very grumpy, snotty, and even more tired. So 10 is good, though i don't think you have to worry about it in weekend usless you have to wake up early for a sport or class or something. But it is immportant for teens to get a good amount of sleep.

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like at 9:50 i think

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10:31 definitively

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You should go to bed around 11 pm

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Ask your Boy Friend..........

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10:30 is as late as i would let her stay up

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