I was NOT home schooled.
HOWEVER-—MY BEDTIME-—lights off—no reading—was 9:30 PM thru Junior year in high school.
Got pushed to 10 PM when a senior in HS-—same for all my younger brothers.
Obviously—we didn’t have computers & cell phones and electronic games.
BUT we also got up NO LATER than 6 AM to feed & milk cows—BEFORE we got breakfast & the school bus came to take us. ...high school. Grade school was 1/2 mile on same road.
ALL I hear these days is “START SCHOOL LATER-—THE KIDS ARE SOOO TIRED”
NO parent eems to set a decent bedtime & make it stick.
When I was a senior, I got to stay up later on FRIDAY nights because I played in the band at football games.
I was on the honor roll in high school & when I took night classes in Accounting, I got solid 4.0 in every class.
So no midnight bull sessions at Starbuck's like the Korean students out here who are determined to get into HYP (Harvard, Yale or Princeton).
My wife had a high school friend who, after she was married, had a little boy who she let set his own bedtime. So she ended up staying up with him til he fell asleep on his own. He became a spoiled little brat. Move forward a couple years, her husband was killed in a one car accident, and so she had to raise him on her own. She STILL let him do whatever he wanted. He got into trouble with the law, stole money from her, pretty much bossed her around.
Well, about a year ago HE was killed in a one-car accident. We don’t know what became of her. Sad.
THEY NEED DISCIPLINE. I’m not saying boot camp from day one, but they have to have some structure in their lives.
She was a piece of work, herself.