Waking us everyday at 6.30 am

Yes great idea. Or, have you not got a garden shed op? Pop them in there on a blow up bed, give them a flask and tell them you do not want to set eyes on them until 9am.

Could give them a chamber pot and put a lock on the outside of the door so when you've properly woken up you can go and let them out

True. You're dd will be awful at supper in a restaurant. Maybe have a lie down with her in your bed this afternoon. Maybe then she'll sleep. Or get a baby sitter. You know these families with badly behaved kids out? You'll have one of your own. Good luck.

I stayed with my mum after my dad passed. I don't live in England any more. She'd have the radio on at 8am'ish when I was still asleep. I'd get all bleary eyed. She'd say oh darling, did I wake you? Every day till I went home. Parents.

But driving is almost always going to be quicker than walking. My point is that there are reasons other than speed to choose walking.

I f she is as tired as you claim she wouldnt be taking 90 minutes to drop off

@Theelephantinthecastle

But the suggestion that she walk her DD to school, then walk back, then drive to work, instead of driving 2 mins to school, dropping off DD, then carrying on driving to work is surely utterly pointless? Unless you're desperately looking to get more walking into your day, why would you not do the whole thing in one go, in the car? Presumably the school is pretty much on the way to work, so she'd probably be driving right past it!

If I am someone's house guest I expect to fit in with them. Their house their rules etc. If I don't like their house rules I don't stay. The OP isn't running a hotel or B&B.

Op, have a word with your dad and ask if he could keep the noise down until after 7. Early risers tend to think that the rest of the world is missing the best bit of the day etc but I would struggle to get up before 7.

Re. A nap, does going on a drive make her fall asleep? Could you do this after school pick up?

Christ.

What a needlessly unpleasant post.

Did your parents raise you to be this unpleasant or is it something you learnt yourself?

Exhausted getting up at 6.30 am?!

Lord you are so very precious.

However I do think it's your parents fault as they raised you this way. Just ask them, as a PP said, to stay quietly in their room till your horrifically early 8am, having provided tea making facilities. Then sit back whilst the rest of the country 'coped with' little ones getting up at sunrise.

Can dad get up and brush his teeth downstairs and get ready a bit quieter and stay downstairs till 8

6.30 am is fine on a working day but not acceptable at weekends/rest days.
That would drive me crackers

When we lived abroad and our children were small, we used to have my in laws stay with us for 2 - 3 weeks at a time. It involved changes of routine and excitement and we all loved it. We were fortunate in that my inlaws were lovely people. They slept in a bed in the (downstairs) study but we all managed with only one bathroom. When we visited them, we used to have one child sleeping on our floor or their floor. In OUR situation, it worked fine....But excited children and changes in routine did not result in badly behaved children. If they were tired, it resulted in an afternoon in bed with a cuddle and a story.

Because if doesn't always work like that.

Lots of people get up at the same time everyday regardless of when they go to bed.

It's also down to the host to accommodate the guest, not the other way around imo.

The change in behaviour is probably less the lack of half an hour's sleep than the disturbance and excitement of having the DGPs around for so long.

10 days is a long stay - are they coming from overseas?

40-45 minutes at the most from waking to leaving the house, I gotta know what takes everyone else so long in the mornings! We don't rush about either!

I think it's mostly much longer journeys to school or commutes or longer working hours.

On an office day, it takes me 50 mins to get into the office so if I want to do 7/8 hours in the office and get home in time for bedtime (which I prefer to do), I need my kids to be in breakfast club by 7:45/8 so I obviously can't have them not awake till then

I have one in primary school one in nursery. My alarms finish going off at 8, when I drag myself out of bed then I wake both kids. Throw breakfast at them which they eat while watching TV while I have a coffee and a smoke. At 8.20 me and my eldest head upstairs and he gets dressed while I shower and get dressed, we are ready to leave the house at 8.40am and walk 10 minutes to school arriving as or just after the gate opens.

Walk home, collect the toddler which OH has dressed while I was on the main school run, then we hop in the car and drive to nursery for 9.15, I'm home and ready to start work by 9.20 (not a long drive but not walkable)

If I had to do it alone without OH to tag team I'd shower before bed so I can get toddler dressed while big one is getting himself ready.

40-45 minutes at the most from waking to leaving the house, I gotta know what takes everyone else so long in the mornings! We don't rush about either!

Not sure why parents don’t just stay up later and get up later. They are staying as guests in your house.

it doesn’t work like that for me, if I go to bed at 9pm or 1am - I’ll still wake at 5:30am

Not sure why parents don’t just stay up later and get up later. They are staying as guests in your house.

I used to have to get up early, 7-7.30 am, when I went to work (part time) and during term term. Weekends, days off and holidays never! I was fortunate that my child was never an early riser, nor was in bed by 8.30pm so stayed up happily with us. I could have sucked it up for a short while and would certainly have made allowances if parents stayed (which they didn't because lived near enough to us).

However it would not be unreasonable for the parents to use another loo if they insist on being up early. Waking you and your child up with noisy routine is inconsiderate.

What a pretentious comment to make , she goes straight on from work from dropping kids off and that’s how their routine works ….. that wasn’t the initial question that was asked.

Because she's gooood!! 😉