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How'd you pull off the midnight screening with the kids? Its a school night.

We have one daughter who's 11. She will have to take a nap when she gets home from school, and then we will wake her up at 11PM. Perhaps we are Star Wars fanatics, but she is totally into it! In fact for years I was trying to get her to watch IV, V, and VI, but she acted like it would be torture to make her watch these "old" movies. Then once she saw IV for the first time this past Monday night, she couldn't get enough and insisted on watching V and VI over the past two days.

I have to say as a sidenote that we view her public schooling as basically social time, and her real education begins at home at 3PM and on the weekends. Anyway I think she will survive the interruption in her sleep schedule. We took her to see the midnight premiere of Star Trek Nemesis, and it's always the funnest time to go because that's when the people in costumes tend to come out.

...and it's always the funnest time to go because that's when the people in costumes tend to come out.

Well there and Bill Clinton trials:

Judge beams 'trekkie' juror from Whitewater case (March 14, 1996)

We have 11 yr. old twin girls who also went to the midnite premiere. Our first midnite showing with them was the last Harry Potter film. They are natural night owls just like their mom, and have had very "adult" sleep habits from the time they were babies - they've never turned into a pile of jello from a temporary lack of sleep.

Our oldest daughter, 15,( the original late night baby) did not want to go - in fact, she was in bed before we left for the theater.

P.S. - we share your view on public ed - to me it's necessary to learn to deal with lots of different types of people - that's the education they receive during the day - the rest is up to us.