How to get a teenager out of bed?

[lemonmousse]

Does anyone else have this conversation or a variation of it?

Me: "DS - it's 6.20"
DS: "Yeah - I know"
Me: "It's 6.30"
DS: "Yeah I know"
Me: "IT'S 6.40!"
DS: "I KNOW - STOP HASSLING ME!"
Me: "It's 6.50 - you'll miss the bus" (it goes at 7.10)
DS: "It's OK - I'll get the next one"

Next bus goes at 7.40 so I have a break and resume shouting at 7.10

Guess what? HE KNOWS!

(repeat above conversation several times)

By 8.30 I am stomping round like an angry Yeti - I am ready to leave for work and he has stirred himself into the shower having already missed 3 buses and is shouting "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME?"

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I now discover that he rang his uncle to give him a lift because "Mam didn't get me up on time"!!!!!!

Tell me it's no longer illegal to beat your teenager with a big stick?

[seeker]

How old?

[lemonmousse]

He's 18 believe it or not - just lazy. He has to travel 15 miles to 6th form - usually he's up and away by 7.10 but sometimes he just won't move his ar*e in the mornings!

[seeker]

Oh well, then, don't wake him up at all. Not your responsibility.

[lemonmousse]

Just having a laugh you know - couldn't believe the cheek of him blaming me!

[SocialChameleon]

throw water on his bed after the 3rd telling.

my mum did this to my 18yo lazyarse brother

It soon worked

[slug]

My mother used to do this:

Make cup of tea
Insert cup of tea in "sleeping" teenager's hand
Teenager then had two options A) sit up and drink tea and therefore wake up or B) go back to sleep with tea in hand, roll over and spill tea all over self

This was surprisingly effective.

[lemonmousse]

Haha - I like both those suggestions!

[bigcar]

wet flannel

very loud Barry Manilow playing alarm clock placed on other side of the room

rocket

[glitzy]

Ive used a fog horn before... very effective!

[lemonmousse]

Not sure I could handle Barry Manilow that early in the morning!

Where can I buy a foghorn/hire a ship?

Think a wet flannel and a confiscated duvet might do it though........

Anyway - not my problem tomorrow - he has a late start on a Wednesday and has just rang to say he is staying at his girlfriend's house.

[grin}

[Goblinchild]

Wet flannel and duvet removal works here.
Or I tell him no spaghetti bolognaise for the week.

[Kandinsky]

There is an alarm clock that if you don't switch it off rolls off the bedside table and rolls about on the floor making an annoying noise. I think it is called a "clocky ." May not be so good in a teenagers bedroom though as if it rolls on to pile of clothes etc it wouldn't go far.

[glitzy]

Or that alarm with the helicopter blades on top, which takes off when the alarm goes off, and the only way to stop it is to find it and put it back on the alarm

[BrokenRing]

Danger of taking your son's duvet off him in the morning - what does he wear in bed? There are a number of reasons why this could be acutely embarrassing and demeaning both to him and you.
I think the cup of tea in hand idea is best.

Mine used to be the same. I just used to hammer on his door very loudly, shouting "GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!" repeatedly until he shouted back and slid out of bed.

[MooMooFarm]

I bought my DS an alarm clock with a bed shaker attached. It works very well

[MADABOUTTHEBOY2000]

i used to use a sargent alarm clock it played the bugle reallllly loud you had to hit him hard on his helmet the alarm clock lol , ive pulled the duvet off and thrown a glass of water at DS b4 but i really like the cup of tea in hand one

[OesMorDdreng]

I'm 17. My parents have a wireless doorbell transmitter in the kitchen, and one outside my room. They press this repeatedly until my brother and I wake up.
I always get up straight away anyway. If I don't get out of bed within a specific 15-minute time slot, someone else will go in the shower before me, I'll have to wait ages to shower and dry my hair, and I'll be late for school. As long as I can have a shower straight away, I don't mind getting out of bed in the morning.

It's not really your responsibility when he's 18 though. Just let him be late for everything. He'll soon learn.

[iheartdusty]

[Ooopsadaisy]

OP - he's 18.

If he loses his job by being late then he will learn. I think he's past the point of it being your responsibility.

I'm sure it is excrutiatingly annoying.

I am an early riser and annoy the hell out of my family by banging around the house at 5am on a Saturday morning, so I would also be frustrated by him .... but .... he's a big boy now and it's his problem if he's sacked.

[omgwhatnow]

Remove Duvet, tip matress up - only need to do it once

[Sanesometimes1]

loving the wireless doorbell ............off to buy !!!

[saggarmakersbottomknocker]

Pinch his duvet.

[BetamaxBandit]

I think at 18 he should be responsible for getting himself up. If he gets bollocked for being late then that's his own look out.

I've read somewhere that teenagers find it more difficult to get out of bed in the morning than adults. Something to do with body clocks or something...

Anyway I definitely remember being like that at 18, and being consistently late for college.