Do you let your kids stay up late on a school night to watch a major sporting event? The Bruins are in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals tonight and we are a hockey family. I am letting the younger kids (5 & 7) stay up until the end of the game if they want to stay up. My husband is taking the 13-year-olds out to a local sports pub/restaurant to watch the game there. We're still in school here, albeit on the last 4 days with no "real" work being done. I let them stay up to watch the Red Sox World Series wins and the Celtics championship win (they really fell asleep on the floor and I woke them for the final minutes).
Anyway, another mom of a 7th grader is appalled that people are letting their kids stay up late and was doubly appalled at little kids being allowed to stay up. I think she's in the minority here (and it doesn't change my position) but wanted to see what other moms think and do in these situations.
And it's a win! Totally worth the late night up/out. Hope the victory parade is on a Saturday, but if it's Friday guess whose kids are getting the day off? Thanks for your input!
Nah, stay up. School is almost out.
I let my daughter go to the first showing of Twilight at 12:02am and Harry Potter at 12:01am when she was in mid semester around the 8th and 9th grade.
Call me a bad mom but it only happens once and I have an honors student. The deal was, NO missing school or complaining the next day.
My son is 8 & for the past few years has watched all of the Stanley Cup games, Super Bowls, etc.
What's the harm?
Oh yes, we all stayed up and it was a great family night. The kids got up on time and went to school still pumped up about THE WIN and THE CUP!! We stressed to them that the Bruins were there because of their hard work, commitment and teamwork - I thought it was a great lesson about perseverence and promoted Boston pride!! GO BRUINS!
I am with you. Let them stay up. They will always remember that you let
them stay up to watch.
The Pittsburgh City Schools had a 2 hour delay the day after the Super Bowl LOL-we take our sports very seriously here! I always let my kids stay up for that kind of thing, In the grand scheme of things it is one night of missed sleep for a memory that will last forever.
Go Bruins!!
It's an exception, not the rule, have fun, the kids will survive. These are what childhood memories are made of!!!
Ummmm, I think it would be a REQUIREMENT if I lived in Boston! :)
Helloooooo...civic PRIDE anyone?
But then again my parents let me and my little sister sit outside for GENERAL ADMISSION for Duran Duran on a Tuesday in 33 degree weather back in 1984!
My mom let me skip school the day after sporting events so I could stay up and watch, no matter what time of the year it was. I plan on doing the same for my kids. It's a great family bonding time, at least in our family, and sometimes that outways school.
I didn't read the other responses, but I think it's funny that the other mother was appalled. Really - isn't that a little extreme?
Good on you for watching together - cheering your team on as a family. We'd do the same thing.
If they were into it, sure! I agree w/ Patty, that's the stuff you remember from your childhood!
If we were a hockey family I would let mine stay up too. Right now they stay up when there is a Sounders (soccer) game on. When the world cup was on the stayed up or got up early. It's the last 4 days of school too...nothing of any importance is happening!
Hope your team wins
L.
My son is only two and we let him stay up late for the Mavericks. My parents think we're crazy, but I don't care! He doens't understand what's going on and ignores it most of the time, but when something big happens he loves being part of the mix. We are diehard Mavs fans, and they are a big deal here. He wouldn't sleep with us screaming like crazies, anyway :)
Remember the Sox in 2004? Yeah, my kids got to do their homework in front of the TV (an unprecedented treat in our house) AND stay up until the games were over, sitting on Mom & Dad's bed watching and cheering and celebrating.
Now, I've got one who is a dean's list student in college & another who is a high school honor student. They both understand how to be responsible, how to pay attention to what needs to be done -- and how to support the home town team.
And, yeah, they're cheering on the Bruins (up by 3!!!) as I type this.
Update: Way to go BRUINS!!!!! Hope you & the kids enjoyed!
WELL, I'm a BC girl and you can BET that my girls will be up with the family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) to watch the CANUCKS win the cup for the first time in their history!!!
We do this too...great family fun time and making of wonderful childhood memories!
LOL...I knew this was going to be Bruins related as soon as I saw the title. My almost 15 year old daughter is a hockey freak. All year long. She has hockey posters covering her bedroom walls. She has season tickets to the Manchester Monarchs and she goes with my cousin and his kids, because I just can't get that into it. They have a hockey "family" and they get together all year round. They have BBQ's in the summer and count down the days to opening game. Tonight they will all be at my cousins to watch the game together. I will be home sleeping :) So, yes I let her stay up...as long as her grades don't suffer. They're only kids once, and these are the times that they will remember the most. Personally I feel really bad for that 7th grader. Sounds like his mom is no fun.
I put mine to bed so I can watch the Mavs game in peace. They didn't get straight to sleep, because I was yelling at the tv!
If my kids understood what was going on and it was the playoffs, I might. But probably not the last 4 days of school. Once they get to jr high or high school, the last 4 days is semester test time. That obviously trumps everything else.
Yes, I would let my kids stay up for a special event especially this time of year when no real school work is being done.
Now, we are not a sports family in any way -- nobody around here is at all interested in staying up late to watch sports of any type. But, I have let my 9yo (the only one interested in it at the moment) stay up late to watch election night results, or Obama's speeches. This is a somewhat different case, as a good argument could be made for the educational value of watching these things, but I do think the occasional late night is rather harmless, as long as it isn't all that often.
Yes, I would let my kids stay up, especially for something like game 7 in whatever sport you watch.
We are not a big sports family, but I see nothing wrong with the occasional family fun/bonding that occurs from "breaking the rules" for something special. No exams or real school the next day, and the kids would have to be behaving for this kind of treat :) Congrats on the win BTW!!
YES!!! Let them stay up!!!
When the Phillies won the World Series a couple years ago, my kids were up, 3rd and 7th grade, as were all the neighborhood kids, everyone went outside to hoot and holler! FUN!!!
it's one night, and if sports are your thing in your house, then go for it! If you don't break the rules sometimes, then you end up with wild teenagers.
Having said that, sports are far from a big thing in our house, and it was weird for us to even turn on the game last night, but we did and let our son watch a little bit, before sending him to bed at his regular 9 bedtime. He's a wreck if he doesn't sleep and I'd rather us use those cheats for things he's more interested in, like the fireworks last week (stayed up till 10 and passed out in the car for those).
Go Bruins! ;)
I know that I'm a day late, dollar short on this one but I just had to let you know.... My husband, our six year old and myself stayed awake to watch game 7 and it was worth every moment of self doubt that I had allowing him to stay awake.... not only did I allow him to stay awake, I gave him three mini-marshmallows during the last 10 minutes to keep him awake! Bad mom? nope, something like this is important to my husband and son bonding so anyone who doesn't agree, feel free to raise your children your way and I'll raise my child my way!
