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When did you first stay up at New Year's Eve?

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Age at your first New Year's Eve celebration?
Age 3 and younger 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
Age 4 thru 5 17%  17%  [ 5 ]
Age 6 thru 8 28%  28%  [ 8 ]
Age 9 thru 10 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Age 11 and older 38%  38%  [ 11 ]
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09 Dec 2007, 3:46 pm

LostInSpace wrote:
Please tell me your bedtime at 3 years old wasn't 11:00. If your bedtime was at 7 or 8 (which is where I would hope it would be for a preschooler), you would have been asleep hours before midnight.

My bedtime at age 3 was around 8:00. But with my insomnia at the time, I'd still be lying awake, tossing and turning, bored out my mind, for at an hour or more. As a result, I viewed bedtime as some kind of a hazing ritual or a punishment for being a child, even though it's supposed to be good for my health. My parents knew I hated bedtime, so they let me stay up for New Year as a Christmas present. Interestingly, they always expected me to start getting sleepy around 10:00pm, but I always stayed wide awake at least until 1:00am, at which point, they'd say: "I think you've had enough celebrating."



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09 Dec 2007, 3:54 pm

I was a teenager when my parents woke me up in time for the ball to drop, the event is special for me now.


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09 Dec 2007, 6:42 pm

Da 1st tym i stayed up 4 new years eve was wen i was 12 years old.