Dd wanting to "do something" the moment she wakes

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She wakes and is 100% from the moment her eyes open. As such it's "can we make these, can we paint, can we do x y z" all before I've even opened my eyes and drunk a cup of tea.

She is 7 and currently moping around the house complaining she is bored. She has had a birthday and Christmas within the last three weeks. There is a host of things she could go and do. But she just wants me or her dad to do them with her now.

Im asking for a little bit of time to get myself awake, ease into the day, dressed etc. An hour tops. We do lots together or as a whole family throughout the day, so it isn't a case of never making/doing/playing. Just not at 8am fgs.

Ds (4) is more on my wavelength as he is currently slouched on the comfy chair with some books.

Just let me wake up!!

She needs to get into reading, big time.

She loves to read on an evening, but seems to associate it with relaxing before sleep rather than as a general pastime. I was a big reader as a kid; would devour books. I need her to get into daytime reading.

Put the TV on

Can you leave a craft activity out for her the night before?

I used to tell mine it was ‘quiet morning time’ they soon got the hang of it!

Tv on if she wants it. I'm up, I don't mean stay in bed am more than happy to be up with her. I just don't want to have to be a source of entertainment this early.

Laying out a craft activity is a good idea.

I'm off to do breakfasts and get us all dressed so will dig something out for her after that and see if she will just get on with it.

Fwiw there are colouring ins on the kitchen table, she has a kindle and tv as option, plenty books, some toys in her room, some other bits slime etc to hand. She just wants us to do something or for me to guide her "I'm bored". I'm happy to join in, later. I really need her to be her own solution to her own boredom.

If she moans she's bored, give her housework to do! She'll soon find something more amusing...

Mine is like this, but I tell him he has to find something to do on his own. It is impossible to entertain them all day long. Tell her she can clean her room if she can't think of something to do.

My daughter is 7 in two weeks and is exactly the same. Plus she gets up early, like by 6:30 every day, regardless of what time she goes to bed, so when the requests to do x y z start before 7am it just feels relentless. She’s generally happy with crafting. I’ll get all the boxes of random stuff out and she’ll sit and snip and glue quite happily for a while, so at least I can down a couple of cups of coffee and chuck some clothes on. I’ll follow this for any other ideas! 😂

I was like this when I was young... I was just constantly told to be quiet until another family member arrives at the living room I was also an early ish riser. Would spend most days counting the minutes until kids tv started and silently riding my bicycle around the house.

Things got better when we got a pet, to be honest. I could be quiet but have someone to play with then!

I used to give mine a job to do if they muttered they were bored which quickly got them out of telling me they were bored tbh. Pairing all the clean socks was a favourite of mine because it was tedious and I never paired any socks so that I had a pile as a punishment or for anyone bored. Sweeping the stairs was another good one, sorting out and cleaning a cupboard. Took only once or twice before they learned not to be bored around me. I would give her a time from when you are happy to engage and tell her until that time she either entertains herself or works through a list of chores that you have ready.

The suggestion of her tidying her room was met with "fine I'll go find something to do" and she is now colouring in.

Let her watch one of the children's channels or play on a tablet until you come round.

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How about writing her a timetable of the day. Get up , breakfast , play on your own , mum/dad play lunch etc.
This will show her what's happening and when.
It'll also help her understand time in both reading it and understanding the length time is.

My dd used to join me in bed and chat at me until I woke.Her dad would get up.We the had lots of silly games we played in be starting with stretching Andover an hour later ending in us trying to kick each other out of bed.I miss those mornings now that she can sleep for England.

Maybe you could allow her a choice of activities for the morning the night before, sit her down and explain you need time to wake up properly and tell her before she goes up to bed she can chose the activity she wants to do in the morning, tell her you will do the same so get the tv remote ready or a book or magazine or something and get her to lay out whatever she chooses ready for the morning, my little one like anything like that where he's allowed to take ownership of something and he feels grown up doing the same as mummy type thing

My three are like this. It's fucking exhausting. Sometimes I just tell them to amuse themselves/i dont care if youre bored you figure it out, and put my headphones in just so I don't have to hear the constant requests and demands and thoughts.

My mum used to send me to do 'projects'. 'Go and write a four-page project on tornadoes'. Then off I would go to research and draw pictures to illustrate. Oh, or making magazines/comics was another favourite!

How sensible is she? At 8 I showed dd how to make a cuppa!! She wanted to to as a help for when ds was born!! Toast and a cuppa!!

My eldest is like this. We have to be out doing stuff all the time. I think part of the problem is that he gets up at 6.30am even at weekends and no matter how late he's been to bed, so by about 11.00 he's been awake for half a day already! I got grandparents to get activity vouchers for Christmas for both mine so we could just take them to one of them on a weekend. unhelpful

Santa she is sensible but wiggly. Cannot sit still. I think we are a way off cuppa making.

My daughter is the same and needs entertainment all day. She has never played alone.
I have just resigned myself to listening to her complain and follow me around the house. Hopefully she won't still be laying on the bathroom floor complaining how bored she is, while I use the bathroom, when she is 16 haha. Going to try these suggestions.