Is it normal that my teenage grand daughter does this?

For the love of all things holy...ITS SUMMER! Let her enjoy it!

Her staying up is normal. You taking away her Internet because she is staying up late on her summer vacation is bullcrap. Get over however you were raised and join present day ways.

It's normal; all teens really do do this.

Give the poor girl a break! That's perfectly normal summertime behavior. I mean if she's not getting in trouble late at night why make her go to bed, why cause drama w her?

Trust me that is 100% normal !!

I'm a young teen and I stay up til like five in the morning and sleep time like 1. Perfectly normal. I'm a girl and wut I usely do it txt and mess around in my room and get on facebook or read magazines. Or wutever but I kno u feel like it's smart taking away Internet but I'd get very annoyed. Lol. But yep def normal.

I think it's a normal thing for teenagers to do. I'd rather have her stay up late indoors than be outside staying up late.

She's just being a typical teenager and it's summer. So long as she gets into a different routine a few weeks before school starts, she'll be fine.

I'm a teenager and I'll stay up just going on myspace twitter and facebook
But it's possible that she could be on YouTube just looking at random videos
If your really concerned just ask to check her browsing history I let my parents do it voluntarily

You're weird for thinking that's not normal. Seriously.

I'm probably going to stat up till 6:30 and wake up at 3 tonight.

Very normal, Im in my 20's & stay up really late/wake up late in my days off. Ive always been a night person. 11:00 is a very unrealistic time to set for her. Id say IF youre gonna have a time limit (which never work anyways, by the way) but 1-2 am is more realistic. Although I DO agree that the internet should be turned off at 11-12. Depending on age, she shouldnt be up all night on the computer with the amount of wackos on it...that late w/o supervision.

People have different sleep schedules- don't be so uptight- instead wake her up everyday at noon with a cold glass of ice water---- and a lot of people do this

I'm 25 and my sleeping habits still adjust to later and later times if I have a number of days off from work. When I was a teenager I didn't have a phone or internet to distract me and my sisters and I STILL stayed up all night and slept all day during the summer.

Well if she has a phone I'm sure she's on that at night. If she's still staying up that late regardless of taking the Internet away then there's really no point in taking that away. Most teenagers do sleep in and ESP in the summertime. However 3:40 is a little late everyday.

OK, to some of the commentators - have a bit of respect. This Grandmother gave up HER summer to look after HER grandchild in HER home.

Quit acting as if just being a teenager conferred all kinds of rights to be on a ridiculous schedule and rude to the rest of the household.

Yes teenagers do need more sleep. Yes summer is a time of greater freedom. But being up most of the night & awaking mid-afternoon is nuts.

I already made my suggestion: compromises, structure & activities. The girls bored & has nothing to do.

But teenagers don't rule the roost. And when they do, they are up to shit.

It's pretty normal for us Teenagers to stay up very late in the middle of the night during Summer and to wake up way later after 10. Don't take the Internet away from her just because she wakes up later. Please Grow up and let her enjoy the Summer like everyone else including me. Be one of the coolest grandparents that you can be to her!

"JUVENILES"!!!!!!!!!!!

Let her do her thing. She could be sneaking out and smoking meth while getting a train run on her and she isn't doing anything of the sort probably. I stayed up till dawn on the phone or online or just watching TV when I was in schoolin the summer. let her keep her internet at night if its not stopping her. My mom always used to say "nothing good happens that late at night, u don't need to be there" but I wanted to see for myself lol

im a teen and i stay up to like 3 in the morning or later in the summer its normal.Its hard to sleep until then and i watch tv

I'm 18 and I usually go to sleep at around 1 a.m but only for an hour or so, I'm most productive at around 3 a.m so do a lot of the things I need to do at that time. I don't seem to need sleep like a lot of other people, I probably only average around 5 hours of sleep a night, probably less if I'm being totally honest. Sleep is a waste of time in my opinion, why sleep for half your life?

Aw, gee whiz! You sound like a total square, gran'ma! I used to stay up till 5 am when I was eleven. Don't even ask about my teenage years.

my longest record is 2 pm i stayed up all night last night but my goal is two days i think i do this as a test of endurance to test my will over sleep but then again internet has some interesting stuff go to www.dumblaws.com its hilarious or www.funnyjunk.com

ITS SO NORMAL. that what i do..and what your doing is exacto to what my parents are doing...all i can say is..hence the phrase,LET US B.. for the summer anyway, we pretty much follow the rules.. .heh, heh, heh ;)

It's summer and she's a teen... totally normal. Bed by 11 is ridiculous!

It's normal but... She could be sneaking out and whoring around

Yeah it's normal, she just needs a boot up the backside to get her going

ya it's normal, if she ever works evening shifts or night shifts she'll be able to adapt to it. so good for her.

It is normal, but i don't think its ok to be waking up so late..unless she sleeps in very late. You shouldn't take things away from her, she'll rebel more. & you wouldn't want that. If she won't listen to you about waking up early & when it's time for school...well she leanred her leason and think twice about sleeping in soo much next time..& i knoww i'm a teen.

Since it's summer you might aswell let her stay up, either way she will because teenagers biological clocks are set to sleep later and wake up later anyways. As a teen the latest I've woken up was 4pm and the latest I've been to bed was 6am. Don't worry she's probably up chatting to friends or on the phone.

I stay up late, like till 2 and do random stuff like answer this question. The night time is a time to talk to your other friends and do stuff without your parents knowing. We got a large culture on the internet us kids made.

To say that only juveniles stay up that late is going to piss her off. However that late is very late. I try wake up around 10-11. I have friends who wake up at 12 (im a college student btw). Try waking her up if she sleeps too late. Her biological clock is off a bit and it will take a while to get back to a more reasonable time

Totally normal, and shes being rude to you because you are trying to control her. You dont have to get worried just because she doesn't live her life the same way you live yours. If her sleeping late is interfering with school or work, talk to her about it, but it doesnt sound like it is so I'd just leave it. Everyone I know sleeps in late during holidays

This isn't normal, it's a bad habit. She needs chores but she probably never had them before. Volunteer work might get her some real world responsibility. At my house, she'd lose the internet and phone completely because she's addicted to them. If she's up that late, who's monitoring her use?

normal-i stay up till around 3am and sleep in till 2-3pm...internet or no internet

100% normal

It's pretty normal summer-holiday behaviour.
For most of my teenage years we did not have internet and when we did it was in my mother's room... Anyway, I still stayed up well past midnight, reading sometimes till it started to get light again at the horizon or watching TV or videos...
And then I (of course) slept late in at the morning.
Getting up at 3.40 is a bit extreme, but it's not behaviour that will hurt your grand daughter in any way... Just make sure she starts to get into a a more appropriate sleep rythm bevor school starts.

On an unrelated note: Respect for you to take care of your grand daughter over the summer holidays.

This is totallly normal! im a teenager. trust me its just the fun of staying up late and not having to worry what to do. Since it's summer and its just time to relax. Just check her history.

I'm using cruel in the same context u did someone.

mary127: not ALL teenagers do..
black127: you think that's CRUEL?? i think u exagerate

It is cruel especially seeing everyone else my age sleeping more than being awake and teenagers do need more sleep because there growing unlike wat someone said.

As someone said before - At least she's at home :) Not out getting drunk/having sex/doing drugs/getting pregnant ;)

im 18 i stay up late even during school time and during summer i stayed up 2-3 days in a row couple of times. as to what she could be doing without internet: if she has any hobbies she might be doing that. i often read or paint at night just because during the day i hang out with friends and don't have much time to myself.

its completely normal, id leave her alone:]

AHAHA aww! this is sweet in a way :P

well, let me tell you, this is TOTAALY NORMAL! :)
same thing happening here with me!

i sleep late and wake up late, its just for when its summer. you just really wanna get away from the whole school routine :)

I graduated highschool a year ago. every summer i would be up until the sun was up and i slept until 1 or 2. its normal. we feel like since we cant do that in the school year we just do whatever all night! mostly nothing at all. atleast she isnt out getting drunk or something. im sure she isnt up to anything bad. i would talk on the phone or be on the internet talking to friends, watching videos, etc.. dont even worry about getting her schedule right. i would continue the sleep patterns even the night before school. sometimes i would work on a few hours of sleep.. but i remember staying up the whole night before the first day for my last years of highschool. i guarantee by day 2 shell be back on track! i would pass out by 8pm and everything worked out fine. btw i was an honor student through all of middleschool and highschool.. if that counts for anything. i think all teens do this.. good or bad. and turning off the internet would ony piss her off since shes going to stay up anyway!

I think it is normal. She is staying up because her sleep cycle is now used to her staying up late. If you don't want her to do that wake her up at 10 or 11 in the morning. no naps during that day. she will sleep a little earlier. Then wake her up around 9 or 10 in the morning. she will stay up all day tired and fall asleep at night. She needs to straighten up her sleep cycle before school.

you cruel evil person, I'm a teenager and when summer comes around I go nocturnal. Do you know what I spend doing all those nights? I draw and listen to music. Harmless. Giver the poor girl the Internet back, if it had been me I would have been just a bit more then "rude."

It's normal for most teens but my parents make me get up at 7:30am everyday so consider urself lucky if u can sleep. It rlly sucks on weekends wen I drink till 4am and have to get up that early. In my entire life latest I've slept was 10am and that was after getting in a car accident at 1am. So if u can sleep ur lucky. I usually stay up yo 1am everynite unless I'm with friends then it's 3-4 am wen I get to bed.

She's a freakin' teenager, and it's freakin' summer- LET HER SLEEP. Teens need more sleep anyway, and especially when she's AT HOME. It's not like she's out partying or anything. Let her be.

This isn't normal at all. Summer to all u guys is laying in bed all day I guess. I mean, sure sleep in a little, but getting up at 3 is not normal. Seriously, you guys should get out more.

Do you have no plans for the summer? No summer job? If there is nothing for her to do then give her her freedom to be up at home late. Create some compromises. talk with her. And start finding things to do - at least a few per week.

seriously ALL teenagers do this, I DO agree your being very unfair, just let her be!

its summer!! OLD PPL SCK!! WE TEENS NEED ALITTLE LIVING DURING THE SUMMER

How is sleeping till 3, enjoing summer??? i mean IT IS perfectly normal but i just dont like it anyway.. my sister does the same thing and i hate it (still expecting her to go to bed a t11 it's crazy)but if i were u i wouldn't trouble myself... there's not much u can do (i'm a teenager btw)

She is waking up a bot late but forcing her to bed at eleven is just ludicrous

Extremely normal. I do it and I'm a sophmore in college. It's just what a lot of youths do in the summer (some all year 'round). Get her sleeping habits back on track in the last couple weeks before school starts.

normal!

This is normal. Not only do the JDs do it, but also honors students. What keeps teenagers up all night is the internet, iPod, cellphone, and anything they find entertaining. And during the school year, the thing that keeps AP/IB students up all night is homework -,- Let her be like that until about 2 or 3 weeks before school starts. That should be enough to get her sleeping pattern back on track. Oh but if you want her sleeping pattern to be normal again now, you should have her do some activities instead of sleeping half the day away.

Why would you try and controll her by turning it off.

This is why summer exists!

I hav to go to bed at a certain time! Bit 3:40?! That's really pushing it.

Yes, it's perfectly normal.

I bet she turns the time back on her computer under settings so she can get on the internet.

I do this... Everyday actually
it's summer thatS what most teens do

If I don't have anything to get up for, I also start staying up later and later. lately, I stay up until about 4:00 and wake up at 1:00. I would like to be able to go to bed earlier, but then it feels like I'm forcing it, and I don't enjoy sleep. Maybe if you were raised with more internet/tv, you wouldn't go to bed so early either.

It's called summer school or tutoring early in the morning. She will have to go to sleep. I'm in summer prep for next year (not because I'm a bad student). It helps me go to sleep because I have to get up a 6am.

It is very normal for a teenager to want to stay up late during the summer. However, if you suspect something else is going on, like drugs, then you have something to worry about. Only you as a parent would recognize this to be true, you would have to look for signs. Read up about that if you suspect. Otherwise if grades are good and everything seems normal other than this, you are still the parent. Take control and maybe compromise with her by allowing her to stay up late, but you will wake her up at a certain time everyday regardless of how much sleep she has had. She will adjust her sleeping habit for the summer.

i have the same sleep schedule as her. you need to get over it and stop being an old granny. so she doesn't have the same schedule as you, big deal, you are much older than her!

I don't really have any suggestions, I'm sorry. I think some of how I would react as a parent would depend on the kind of child she was. If she was good and did good in school when she's in it, compared to a constantly rebellious (not the most teenagers aren't) disrespectful girl who doesn't do well with get responsibilities. If she is the 2nd one then yes I'd be straightening her out but if she's not then maybe relax a little about staying up late at least she's home.