Has anyone had any experience of their GC needing lot of sleep of did their children, when teenagers need lot of sleep ?

Our 13 year old DGD is staying with us for Half Term. It is fairly tricky to get her to appear from under the duvet in the morning. Offers of tea/toast/waffles do help.
This morning she knew she had to be out of the house about 9, to go to sports training, and after a prolonged session in the bathroom , she was ready when her friend arrived to give her a lift.
My children were fairly good at getting up, but they didn’t have the wretched mobile phones.

joannapiano
Yes thats the main focus today, phones, social media.
They weren't around when my DD and DS were young.

LadyStardust

I think phones in bed are just the 21st century equivalent of Radio Luxemburg, under the pillow and the latest copy of Jackie being read under the bedclothes with a torch. {smile}

???
Oh, I remember it well.
Radio Luxembourg but not Jackie- that must be after my teenage years!

Serendipity22

Just been chatting to a DD who had been up at the crack of dawn done some yoga and had a swim.

I remember when she was about 15, sprinkling water on her, trying to get her out of bed to go to school.

Callistemon21
Yes, indeed splashes of water i heard that before.
Im surprised my DD doesn't get the flippin hosepipe haaaaaa.

Apparently a few drops feels like a jugful.

My experience was that this was just a stage they went through. It generally ran alongside being a stranger to the bathroom, which was rapidly followed by the bathroom engaged for hours on end.

Lexisgranny

My experience was that this was just a stage they went through. It generally ran alongside being a stranger to the bathroom, which was rapidly followed by the bathroom engaged for hours on end.

My two followed the same trajectory, with the pattern being pronounced with the youngest. They both also ate like horses,

At the age of 14, the youngest grew 6 inches in 6 months, so it was hardly surprising all he wanted to do was sleep and eat.

DerbyshireLass

Lexisgranny

My experience was that this was just a stage they went through. It generally ran alongside being a stranger to the bathroom, which was rapidly followed by the bathroom engaged for hours on end.

My two followed the same trajectory, with the pattern being pronounced with the youngest. They both also ate like horses,

At the age of 14, the youngest grew 6 inches in 6 months, so it was hardly surprising all he wanted to do was sleep and eat.

When my eldest son was 16 he found walking was very painful and his doctor thought he might have broken his heel playing rugby. It turned out that he had grown so fast that his Achilles tendon had not stretched with the bone growth and he had to have months of physiotherapy. He ended up being 6ft 7ins tall by the time he was 20! You can imagine how much it cost me to feed him!

For the last 11 years my DGS has been a finicky fussy eater, permanently underweight, but otherwise fine and a very light, easily disturbed sleeper.

Last September he went up to secondary school and is rapidly reaching his 12th birthday. At Christmas he ate non-stop, everything, kept coming back for seconds, thirds etc. and he has gone from first up, even before me, to last up, being winkled out by his mother.

Suddenly my old rule of not serving lunch to anyone still wearing their pyjamas has become meaningful again.