Question about media usage with your kids

We have an "internet curfew" but it's mostly self managed. I only start removing electronics at night if they give me a reason. Mine are older though...14,15 and 16

Mine are 12 and 14 and I don't have a need to take things away.  They go to bed at a reasonable hour during the school year, have no trouble getting up.  During the summer I let them do whatever they want.  They are up late and sleep in but I don't care much.

My kids are 14 and 17. I should've used a curfew when phones were first brought into the house. Currently 17 yo DD doesn't have one but if she gets a new one (she broke her last one), there will be a curfew. She's on it too much and is a bear in the morning.

I like the idea of turning off the internet at a certain time too but DH needs it for Netflix. Might talk to him about that though.

During the summer everything is off by 9:30 for my younger kids. Their iPads and Nintendo DS's are charged in a station by my bed. They have no other online, video, or game access they can use privately. When school starts again everything is off by 8:00.

I'm much more lax with my teens because they both have a lot of stuff going on online, but they are usually pretty busy with outside stuff during the day, so nighttime is when they play catch up. They don't have an online curfew, but they do a good job knowing when to quit and go to bed.

I don't have kids, so feel free to totally ignore me.  

My first thought was: yeah, I spend more than an hour and a half on the internet, but I'm pretty confident that if I limited myself to actually DOING stuff rather than surfing around to combat boredom, then an hour and a half would be plenty.  What the heck kind of online social life does she have?! LOL.

Other than that:  if it's okay with you that she's up until 1, what if you use this summer as a test run?  You tell her that you want the ipad (or whatever) on your nightstand by midnight (or 11 or whatever), and you want her more or less asleep by 1.  As long as you find the ipad there when you randomly wake up at various times of the night and as long as she's not a crankypants, consider letting that continue during school.  (Maybe then there's the added "and your grades are kept up" or whatever is appropriate for your circumstances.)  

And then some random night set your alarm for 12:03 and bust her when it's not there.

We don't turn the internet off. They just have to sign off. 11 on school nights, 1 on weekend. But we're night owls around here.

This, except mine are 14 & 18.

However, at 12 I did enforce a bed time (even in the summer) and there were no electronics allowed.  They don't even have a TV in their room.

My biggest advice on this top is start or go in the way you intend. It is so much harder to tighten the reigns than loosen them. Speaking from experience.