Do you keep your kids up for the friday night seuda?

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Do you keep your kids up for the friday night seuda?

All kids all year round no matter what time shabbos is

49%

[ 33 ]

No never (maybe I only have little kids?)

11%

[ 8 ]

Just my older kids all year round no matter what time is (what age?)

10%

[ 7 ]

Just the earlier winter shabbosim and the weeks we make early shabbos

28%

[ 19 ]

Total Votes : 67

mha3484

Wed, May 05 2021, 10:29 am

amother [ Brunette ] wrote:

My boys are up year-round, they are 10, 6, 5. I used to have the younger ones go to bed and only the older one up but now the younger boys are old enough that they realize they are being left out. They seem to manage the late night fine and are ok the next day. I wouldn't keep my baby or toddler up.

Same.

amother

Purple

Wed, May 05 2021, 11:59 am

My kids are under 5, so once shabbos starts to get later, we put them to bed before the seudoh. We do make a mini kiddush with them though.

amother

Bronze

Wed, May 05 2021, 12:17 pm

There's a special inyan in Chinuch for your children to hear Kiddush and Havdalla. So you should try to have them stay up for Kiddush from a young age. This isn't Kabalah.
My little kids would usually fall asleep on the couch after soup.

Ema of 5

Wed, May 05 2021, 12:30 pm

amother [ Cerise ] wrote:

Whoever stays up
Except for me no one else gets woken up

This. I would vote for “other” if it was an option....

blessedflower

Wed, May 05 2021, 12:32 pm

My dd goes to sleep Friday afternoon so she is tested for the suede

Zehava

Wed, May 05 2021, 1:33 pm

Younger ones have regular bedtime unless they napped. Older ones are up if they’re up.

saw50st8

Wed, May 05 2021, 2:26 pm

My kids always needed to go to bed pretty early, so summertime they went to bed before the seudah. When my oldest was 11 we started letting him stay up as long as he got up for shul on time.

My younger kids are better at staying awake so this year we started letting all of them stay up (7 and 9). It really matters how your kids handle being off schedule.

Raisin

Wed, May 05 2021, 2:33 pm

We normally do early shabbat, which means kiddush is at 9pm, instead of 10 or 11pm lol. So my little kids stay up for kiddush and first course, and then crash out on sofa or I take them to bed.

amother

Red

Wed, May 05 2021, 2:36 pm

simba wrote:

I keep regular bed times through the weekend.
So depends on shabbos times and kids ages.

Same. So since all my kids are in preschool, they're never up for the seudah. Even in the middle of the winter when they're up till my husband comes home from shul, he then helps me with bedtime before we make the seudah.

Now, in the summer, they get the seudah food (fish, chicken, farfel...) before the zman and go to sleep at their bedtime... before I even tzind licht.

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