if your school kid is not a morning person...
snowflakemom
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How do you get them moving in the morning? 6y/o DD is not a morning person (admittedly, neither am I) and it is brutal waking her up every morning. The bus comes at 7. I usually get her up just before 6:30, she puts on her clothes which we've laid out the night before, brushes hair and teeth and is out the door (we pick out clothes, pack the back pack, etc. all the night before and none of this is an issue). The only problem is actually getting her out of her bed. She will just lie there curled up in a ball until I either threaten or physically move her out of the bed. It is always a battle. Each morning I try to go in with a good attitude, say good morning in a cheery voice, rub her back and sing her a song, offer to help her get up and get her clothes on, etc. and inevitably nothing works so I end up getting upset and I hate starting the day off on the wrong foot.
So what should I do differently? Get her an alarm clock? Wake her up earlier?
She goes to bed at 7:30.
Edit for clarity/misspellings and also to add that she eats breakfast at school, so we don't have to factor time in for that.
Re: if your school kid is not a morning person...
I like to wake up slowly (I will set my alarm for 30 minutes or so before I need to get up so I can hit the snooze). Could you try waking her at 6:00 and then she has unitl 6:30 to get up (maybe you could rub her back for a few minutes).
Why is the bus coming so early? When I was in elementary school, the bus came around 8:20 so school could start at 8:40. Is she really starting school so early? I remember in junior high and high school we started at 7:20.
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My first child springs out of bed all perky and energized each day, so I was unprepared when my second child started school and I had to literally prod him awake every morning. Having to yell at him every morning is a rotten way to start the day.
I have found that using an alarm clock and setting it early enough to give him a chance to get moving slowly helps. Also, it puts the responsibility to get up and moving where it should be: on him.
We also lay clothes out the night before, etc. We don't turn the TV on in the morning at all.
It's gotten better as he's gotten older, but I am NOT looking forward to dealing with this when he's an adolescent!
This is what we do as well. DS is terrible when I wake him up and when I was growing up, my mom would wake me and my brother and yell at us for ever before we ever got up. I didn't want to do that with my kids. We got DS an alarm clock, it works great. I put it across the room so when he finally gets up we go across the room and shut it off together. At that point he's up and out of bed.