Weekend mornings with a 5yo

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Do you let them get up and watch telly by themselves or do you get up with them? Do you have any rules about this? Do they comply?

My DD is 6 now but from about 5 she'd get up and potter and play or watch tv and come get us when she wanted breakfast. Now she gets herself breakfast too! (Cereal) Or just comes and jumps into bed with us which js the best

I have a 4 and 5 year old and they open our door and come in and sat hello and quick cuddle. Then they usually go into the living room with their toys and potter about. Maybe 20 mins or so. Sometimes more.

Yeah, we leave her to it. She’s 5. Although dh is often up by half 7 and I’m up by 9.
We live in a bungalow though so can hear eveything going on. Also she has a 9yr old brother who is also up

We make ours get dressed first, other wise it never happens..She does have a 2 year old sister though, so we kind of have to get up anyway. When youngest is 5 I hope they will go down and let me sleep in like my parents did

My 5 year gets us up but she knows she can play if she wants to in her room. I have no problem with her littering around she's sensible and there's no harm she can come too.

However my niece who is a year older couldn't be trusted she'd get up to mischief.

So I would say it depends on the child and how you feel about it.

Mine are allowed up to their playroom but now downstairs. They get up at stupid o clock so can go and play but not down where the knives / anything potentially dangerous is. Once they're up I can't really sleep but I do stay in bed and keep half an ear out.

I used to put the Tv on for them and they would watch it for a bit if it was after half six or get something like duplo out in their room and say to play quietly. This would last 30-60 mins. Then we would have breakfast and then get dressed etc.

6 year old DS is now allowed downstairs to watch cartoons from 7. He can get a brioche and fruit. At 8 he can wake us (if the 2 year old hasn’t already).

Mine were 6 and 4 when I desperately needed a lie in (ill, DH 6000 miles away, packing to move country) so I put a cereal bar, fruit juice and fruit on the table, and told them to eat and watch TV and wake me at 7.30.
It was demanded that it be repeated the next day by them, and has carried on since then. I no longer need to leave breakfast - they get their own cereal or toast. They can get up at normal school time, and I join them about 7am (this is major lie in in this house). DH surfaces about 9.

If you trust them, I'd say it's fine. I'm happier that there are 2 of them tho.

I have been trying to convince my 6 yr old for month that he can go downstairs on his own but he says he doesn't like to be alone!

We're in a bungalow and have the door into the kitchen locked at night anyway so it's pretty safe for her to wander around. She can use Netflix well and its locked to her account so I experimented with letting her get on with it this morning. She was fine but I felt a bit guilty.

She tried to get up at 5.30 this morning so I sent her back to bed but when she came thru again at 6.10 that's when I caved. Usually I'd get up and snooze beside her on the couch but obviously would rather stay in bed. I left her to it for an hour. Do you think that's ok?

At weekends dd gets up anytime after 7am but knows not to wake us until 8am. (She has a digital clock).
Mostly she plays or reads in her room. She isn't allowed to watch tv but we're lucky, she just wants to play/read/doze in the morning. She's rarely hungry though she knows she can go downstairs for a snack.

If she was an early riser or less compliant we would have done anything for sleep, tv, chocolate whatever!