A MUM of two has defended her children’s unique bedtime schedule, insisting she has no reason to put them to sleep a traditional time.
Victoria is mother to a 15-month-old and a nine-year-old – with her oldest not hitting the sack until one in the morning.
She responded to someone questioning the unusual timings in a video on her TikTok page, which she captioned: “Why my kids go to bed so late.”
“My 15 month old goes to bed at 12am and my 9 year old goes to bed at 1am,” she began.
“There’s no reason for me to put them to bed at 8pm.”
She continued to insist that “the only reason why you might think this is ‘bad’ is because of the way you were raised”.
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“If your parents put you to bed at 7pm while they went to sleep at 11pm they just probably wanted time for themselves,” she said.
“Which was only for their benefit, not yours.”
Victoria regularly shares videos on her TikTok page of her family’s routine, and recently posted a clip showing her nighttime regime with her daughters.
At 8.30pm she takes her youngest to the park, before hitting the supermarket at 9pm and having dinner at 9.30pm.
At 9.50pm, her daughter has chocolate milk, while she tidies up and eats the leftovers.
By 10.45pm they’re watching cartoons together, before reading books at 11.30pm.
And Victoria finally puts the tot down at midnight.
She then eats her dinner at around 12.10am, before her oldest daughter joins her at 12.20am.
They do an art project together at 12.30am, before her nine-year-old gets into bed at 1am and Victoria finally gets her “me time”.
In the comments on the video, trolls slammed her and called her “weird”, with one writing: “Why so late.
“Never heard of any parent doing this. No down time for parents either.”
Others defended Victoria, with one writing: “My daughter is 9 now and we have always done the later bedtimes. 12am is norm for us too! just works for our family.
“I LOVE this,” another added.
“I am constantly getting judged for my kid going to bed ‘late’ but it works best here.”
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While Victoria’s oldest daughter currently goes to bed at 1am, she swaps it to 10pm when her school term starts again.
Until then, she’ll continue to have late nights and sleep in until 1 to 2pm, just like her younger sister.
