Ana fell asleep in class. Stayed up too late reading.

[conuly]

Jenn thinks the solution is to take away her new kindle. I think that there is a fatal flaw in this plan, namely that Ana lives in a house full of books. There are two bookcases in her very room!

So... yeah.

I will say that she is loving Kiki Strike, just like I kept thinking she would.

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Comments

[killing_rose]

Good on the BVO--I remain cranky that bvo is why I ended up hospitalized this year.

[goss]

re. Staying up too late reading - I remember reading somewhere that doctors say the harsh light from the tablet tends to overstimulate the senses at a time when the body should be preparing for rest at night. Personally, I have found that it always takes me a longer time to fall asleep after I read on my tablet than if I read a book at night, so there might be something to it.

[conuly]

It isn't backlit. There is no light at all.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

What's taking her Kindle away going to teach her? That her prized possessions don't really belong to her, because they can be confiscated at any time to force her compliance, or to punish her for non-compliance?

The child is old enough to have a Kindle; so she is old enough to understand that her body requires ten hours of sleep every night, and that a WHOLE lot of issues relating to her brain's health and functioning will depend on whether or not she gets them during this period of rapid neurodevelopment. She is also old enough to understand that her getting enough sleep every night is a much higher priority than finishing the book that night, regardless of what she 'wants' to do.

However, she is probably not old enough to choose long-term need over short-term pleasure yet, and this also could be discussed. Is she mature enough to agree to stop reading and go to sleep at a time that allows her to wake up feeling rested in the morning, and to stick by that agreement without begging and whining like a baby? If you put it in those terms, she'll certainly claim that she IS mature enough, and be willing to write a contract to that effect - which ought to contain the 'penalty clause' that if she breaks the contract even once, she won't be allowed to have the Kindle in her room after bedtime until school is out.

Sure, she's got a roomful of books, but they don't have their own lights to read by. And the point of the lesson is for her to take responsibility for caring for her body, which she will be solely responsible for in not-too-many years. Maybe it would help to read her some of the research articles on why sleep is crucial, and why a person her age needs so much of it - most children never know anything about that, y'know; they tend to assume they're sent to bed so the grown-ups can have Fun without them.

[conuly]

The kindle isn't backlit. If the light is out, she cannot read.

And yes, I think it all could have been avoided if somebody had poked their head in sooner to check that her light was off.