
Opened this thread, and rules are rules.~
I've seen a couple people open this thread with me and not post but I'm not gonna say any names hehe.
On the topic of being strict with stuff like that, I think my parents just learned after a while that I was just gonna rebel against them if they tried to make me do something. I had problems getting to sleep when I was young because of circumstances and social problems back then, and usually I'd have something to help me to sleep (it was usually either playing Pokemon or YouTube on a 3DS back when that came out) and I think my mom read from some article or something that it led to sleeping problems. Since it was the thing that
helped me sleep, we went at it for a while before things just stopped getting less strict cause I'd sneak stuff back into my room if it got confiscated.
In terms of bedtimes, my dad used to get mad at me if he found me still awake at points, but I had a year where I was pretty depressed and it meant I just stayed up late all the time, so it sorta turned into him being like "You get enough sleep last night?", and it's felt like he's always been really sweet about understanding stuff like that about me. Great example is on days where I'd just feel awful and not want to go to school, so we'd go out and get breakfast together before he went to work. Even though I usually didn't take it, he gave me that chance to talk about things with him if I really needed to, and it helped me a lot. He went from being pretty strict with me to the reason I could comfort myself with the thought that I wasn't a bad person for not being able to go to class every day like I was supposed to.