3. They'll stay up all night; regardless of your warnings
One of the most generation-spanning tricks 99% of kids partake in, is the extended evening by way of constructing a light-bending fort of books, blankets, torches or handheld video game consoles. We may have emerged the following day in a bleary-eyed state of near homeless-looking stature, but dammit if it wasn't enjoyable to bend the rules, going to bed andwaking up in the same morning. You see, the trick here - as many parents will also know through doing exactly the same thing when they were young - is to gauge exactly how to refract the light coming from your television so that it doesn't go under the door, giving yourself away. Although such a light may also emanate from a torch should the child be staying up reading, or playing any number of handheld games until the wee hours (A Pokémon addiction doesn't just go away overnight, it consumes it), many of us fashioned blankets or other light-blocking implements so that we could prepare for a full day of yawning in peace. How do you combat such a thing? You can't really, it's something the child has to learn for themselves if they're good at the evasive manoeuvres. Obviously if grades start to slip and they can barely get through a sentence without their face resembling that of a gaping hippo every five minutes, you should probably step in and check on them just to be sure though.
