For parents of kids with early risers....

[connorlevismom]

when did they start sleeping in?

My son will be 4 next month and never sleeps in past 6:30. Most days it is 5:30 or 6:00 when he wakes up. We have tried putting him to sleep later and he still wakes up at that time. I am dreaming of the days where we can sleep in!

Please tell me this will end!!!

Kristine

 

[DisneyCrazyX5]

My boys did this too. On Saturday they let me sleep to at least 8am. I would put a milk cup/with lid in the frig. and have something they could eat (Pop tarts or granola bars) and make sure the TV was on a good channel for them. It made it much easier to get up early with them the rest of the week.

 

[gibsontrio]

my son is turning 5 and he wakes up before me, turns his light on and plays quietly. My husband and I joke that he gets up after we go to bed and plugs himself into the wall instead of sleeping. Sometimes I wonder just how early he is getting up ( this morning it was 6) . He goes to bed around 8. I've tried putting him to bed earlier and later, doesnt change it. So , if you find out the secret let me in on it!!!

 

[karajeboo]

Our DD (now 6) has just started sleeping past 7am. Even when she started kindergarten last year, she was getting up at 6 or 6:30 and now that she's in first grade, she's up by 7. We also tried putting her to bed later, but she still got up early and was cranky! DD slept until 8 last weekend and was the last one up!!! But it took 6 1/2 years for that to happen!

 

[Perditamarie]

I am glad I am not alone in this!! I have 3 that get up between 6-6:30..no one is interested in sleeping in yet...they are 4, 5 & 6!! We have also experienced that it doesn't really matter what time they go to bed, they will get up at their usual time and just be crabby! So, to counter-act this, we have a very early bed time and I just set the coffee pot to 6:15 and make the best of it! Really, the answer is just more coffee!!!

 

[donac]

Sorry some kids are just programed to do this until they hit the teenage years. My 17 1/2 ds2 is still an early riser most days. Sometimes on Sat he will sleep till 8 but he just started doing this.

Sorry

 

[mommy-on-the-move]

all of mine have been early risers, my eldest was around 5/6 when she began to sleep past 6am (just when i was pg with her little brother and was waking at 4am to pee anyway- how typical!), ds5 it has been the last few months, dd4 is still an early (5-6am) riser, as is our 18 month old.

Right now (well for the last 10 years- OUCH!!!!) we have just taken advantage of the extra time in the mornings, made a nice breakfast, done packed lunches for school, put the laundry on, ironed... anything most people do at night, and it means no one is rushing to get out of the house with 4 kids to school in a morning! (it sucks in holidays though when you have no where to be ) It also means i catch the early morning news and with a 10 year old it gives her time to do any homework etc she's forgotten (or practice her flute.... ohhh the torture LOL at 6am you really don't want to hear it) We also alternate who gets up with them if it's really starting to drain us.

Another big bonus is we're never late anywhere with an early start and when there is something everyone has to be at by 8am we're one of the few families looking awake and on time!

 

[tmarquez]

DD(5) has slept past 7:30 once in her life. Her normal wake up time is 6:30, but sometimes she will sleep to 7:30 on weekends.

The one time she did sleep late, we were at Disney. It was along day, I think she went to sleep at around 11:30 afetr going all day long. We were staying in a super quiet room that was pitch dark with the curtains closed. I actually ended up waking her up at 10 because I thought there must be something physically wrong with her!

Good luck to you with getting some extra zzz's. Wait until they are teenagers and we will be right back heere posting questions about how to wake up our teens.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I have a family of roosters. My ds is nearly always up by 6:30 AM and dd usually wakes up between 7 & 7:30. They are 11 and 9. I don't think they could sleep in if they tried.

 

[NotUrsula]

If he's still napping, you might want to cut out the naps. We had to cut DS off of naps when he was 2, because he would wake at around 4:30 and sometimes manage to wander around the house alone. He's been a perfect
8-hour per night sleeper since.

 

[monorailsilver]

My 4 yo is usually up by 6 pretty much every day. Rarelly it is a bit earlier & sometimes he sleeps in until about 6:30-7 & very rare is it later then that.

He has always been like that too.

My 6 yo dd is an early riser but lately she won't go to bed so just having to wake her at 7 is not so fun. But last night she did go to bed & was asleep by 7:30 so it was a good am & she was up at 6:30.

My almost 2 yo gets up at 7 also.

Honestly I love it. If we want to sleep in on Saturday am, the kids will watch TV until we get up & during the week, the bus comes at 7:35 so those early wakings are great!

 

[Thats_for_Shore]

No rest for the weary, sorry to tell you. DS is 8, and he still gets up early. The good thing about it, though, he's old enough to fix some cereal for him and his three year old brother, meaning I don't have to get up when they do.

 

[princesspiglet]

Our DD is also a rooster while DH and I are night owls. Doesn't matter what time she goes to bed either, she will always wake up at 6:00am on the dot everyday. When she turned 5 this past November, I got her a Princess TV and DVD player and her room is stocked full of movies and books. She knows that if she wakes up early and mommy & daddy's light is still off in their room, then she is to stay in her room and either watch a movie or read some books until we get up around 8. Good thing is, she doesn't like to go downstairs or anywhere else in the house without us, she she always stays in her room. She also doesn't eat breakfast until 9, so I don't have to worry about food.

She has been an early riser since being born at 5:30am!

 

[Tiggerfansmom]

My 3yr old is the early riser....He shares a room with his two brothers, and I can hear the light go on in their room between 4:30 and 5:00 every morning. Once the light goes on, he wakes up the other 2. I gate them in their room, but it is a pressure mounted gate, so I usually hear the gate go thump, and he is off. Sometimes, he will lay back down with me, but not always. And, if I do manage to get the gate tight enough so he can't push it over, then he takes everything out of his drawers and sometimes "helps" the 2 yr old of his playpen. I have had to take everything out of the room that they can flip over and use to climb on, and I have to remember to take DS8's ladder for his bunkbed out everynight, or I will find the 3yr old up on the top bunk . (DS8 has gotten good at "holding it" for the night!! ) And, this happens no matter what time they go to bed, and 3yr old does not have a nap, and goes to preschool everyday. He just has way too much energy. Trying to tucker him out before bed, just gets him more wound up. I know he will grow out of this, someday?!

 

[connorlevismom]

I have to admit this is not what I wanted to see when I looked again.

But, I know that your all right and I just need to live with it and find a way to adapt.

Krisitne

 

[mhaley]

Finally.....after 12 years of early mornings....I have to wake my kids up in the morning. I usually don't let them go past 9:30 am on the weekends or they will not be tired at night. There is hope....I never thought that there would be after years of early morning waking. The funny thing is now I cannot sleep in anymore

 

[Vacation Lover]

My DS is almost 10 and has been waking up between 5:30 & 6:30 ever since he was a baby. When he was younger, we tried moving his bedtime later, but strangely, it seemed to cause him to wake up even earlier! When he was around 6, he started fixing his own cereal and finding something to do without waking me up.

ETA The good news is, it's really easy to be there at rope drop when you go to Disney!

 

[_queenie_]

With my it's my DH who is the early riser, and with me and the kids as night owls/sleepers it drives me insane (probally bugs him even more)!

Obviously you'll probally need to use a different approach with children over adults, but I've been trying to have dinner ready at 6:30/7 rather than the typical 5:30/6. From doing this he seems to be going to bed a whole hour+ later than he usually does. Nine at least is a lot better than the typical eight I guess, the trouble is when he goes to bed to early is not only does he get up super early in the morning, but he always wakes up at about three or four and thinks it's time to get out of bed (then in another hour he has to get up, of course I get vyrtego so I have lack of sleep already)!

 

[RMulieri]

when did they start sleeping in?

My son will be 4 next month and never sleeps in past 6:30. Most days it is 5:30 or 6:00 when he wakes up. We have tried putting him to sleep later and he still wakes up at that time. I am dreaming of the days where we can sleep in!

Please tell me this will end!!!

Kristine

I feel your pain my Daughter just turned 4 and is up anywhere from 4:30-6:30 every day! I tried pushing her bedtime back...the only thing that did was make her cranky, but she still got up early!

 

[Nicolepa]

My daughter was an early riser until she was about 6. Now at 7 1/2 she will sleep until 7 or later. My 5 1/2 yo used to sleep until 8:30 or so but now gets up at 6:30 every morning.

With my daughter I was able to teach her not to wake us up until 7. She could play in her room or read. My son has been harder to teach. So we have taught him to go play with his Wii until we get up. We also taught him NOT to wake his sister up!