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Get up!!!!

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Whatthefunk · 02/02/2019 09:41

The sun is shining and the bikes are all loaded, onto the car. Now all I have to do, is persuade Ds11 to get out of his pit..... Any ideas? He'd happily stay there all day. Sad Anyone else have this problem. I wasn't expecting this laziness, for a good fee years...

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Nnnnnineteen · 02/02/2019 10:13

Christ, are you my ex mil? Anyone in bed past 9 is considered to be wasting the day. It's Saturday, let the kid sleep, he obviously needs it.

Georgiemcgeorgeface · 02/02/2019 10:14

I'm currently banging around upstairs as I have the same problem. Considering getting the hoover out. It's either that or cooking a bacon sandwich and hope the smell entices him down....

dudsville · 02/02/2019 10:20

Don't kids go through phases of needing something like 46 hours a day of sleep? Let sleeping kids lie.

Pinkiii · 02/02/2019 10:21

I assume he is up early during the week for school? Why not let him have a lie in on the weekend poor kid.

DisposableNN · 02/02/2019 10:25

He's 11 - let him sleep, leave him a note and go on the bike ride without him. If he'll be disappointed that he didn't go then let him wake up naturally and go out on your bikes later.

FromDespairToHere · 02/02/2019 10:25

Let him sleep! Plenty of time for a bike ride this afternoon.

PS I'm currently on my phone in bed...

FromDespairToHere · 02/02/2019 10:25

That's if he wants to go on a bike ride. Has he said he does?

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Whatthefunk · 02/02/2019 12:16

I let him sleep and read my book. I miss early morning fun...

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ohdearmymistake · 02/02/2019 12:22

You may miss early morning fun but not everyone else does.

StrawberryBlondeRed · 02/02/2019 12:23

Did you like to have a lie in when you were his age OP? Grin

Hen2018 · 02/02/2019 12:38

“Early morning” and “fun”.

There’s an oxymoron.

Clutterfreeintraining · 02/02/2019 12:44

Oh, op, I can identify!!

Ds is 16 now and I've learnt to either do things by myself or do them later in the day with him.

Holidays are the hardest because I like to get up and out to do touristy things before all the other holiday makers are doing the same. We have compromised on this by having two early starts and letting him lie in the rest of the time.

Ds totally surprised me this morning by being up and full of conversation at 10.30am Shock He is back in bed now though Grin

FromDespairToHere · 02/02/2019 13:01

I agree with Hen - the only fun I can think of for an early morning on a Saturday when I'm not working involves turning over and going back to sleep.

GertrudeWilloughby · 02/02/2019 14:22

miss early morning fun

Any early morning fun I would enjoy would definitely not involve an 11 year old boy... Wink 😜

eddiemairswife · 02/02/2019 14:26

It's cold! I detest early morning people, who think it is fun to go out in freezing weather.

grenadezombie · 02/02/2019 14:28

I have no objection to leaving kids to rest. My own teens spend more time in bed than out sometimes, but, if it's a planned activity/outing and the kid is refusing to get up that's unacceptable.

OP, was it planned or did you just get up and make the plan without your DS knowing? If the former I would have made them wake up and crack on. The latter? I would have left them to rest.

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