A family of night owls! So lucky!!! I have an ex-wife who was a strict by-the-clock sleeper, and a son who is a natural morning riser. Even in his teens, he regularly says goodnight by himself at 10 pm because he's tired, and wakes up at 7 am. (I love him more than anything, but why???)

This morning I went to bed at 6:30 am. So, yeah. Having your family around to spend time with in the middle of the night sounds like a dream come true to me!

The 1am bedtime is a good idea though, missing all the daylight isn't good for the little ones, or us either.

I have experienced this myself.... If I wake up by 1pm, that is early in my books. And bed time is about 5am, right before sunrise.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/locked-down-teens-stay-up-all-n...

Do your kids get screen time at night? What kind of lighting do you have in your home? Young kids staying up till 6am sounds pretty odd without a lot of artificial blue lighting. If I have a screen-free evening I'm wiped out pretty early. If I'm in front of a screen I don't even feel tired.

The do sometimes get screens at night, but I'm a big stickler about no blue light after 9pm normally (although now that's no blue light after midnight).

I've changed out bulbs throughout the house so that we can light the whole house in 1850K light at night, and all screens use some sort of red-shifting (screens that can't redshift like TVs get turned off).

But you're right, if they get too much screen is does keep them up longer. But even without the blue screens they will stay up playing with toys under 1850K lights until the very AM hours!

What’s your plan for when they start school?

If in person school actually happens, or the Zooms are in the morning, we'll start shifting back a couple weeks beforehand. We've taken them to other time zones before and they are pretty normal as far as shifting about one hour a day.

Switch back. lol