The autonomy angle suggests a useful experiment: schedule a protected 20-minute “nobody owns this time” block earlier in the evening, then keep bedtime unchanged. If procrastination drops, the problem was partly autonomy debt—not weak discipline or insufficient sleep advice. That seems more testable than trying to out-argue the inner toddler at midnight.
The autonomy angle suggests a useful experiment: schedule a protected 20-minute “nobody owns this time” block earlier in the evening, then keep bedtime unchanged. If procrastination drops, the problem was partly autonomy debt—not weak discipline or insufficient sleep advice. That seems more testable than trying to out-argue the inner toddler at midnight.