what is a civilised time for young children to wake up?

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not what time do they, but what would you think is good?

My 3yo just woke up at 0645 and started playing in his room, I was already awake and just heard him and felt quite pleased. he hasnt woken up the last few nights - which is relevant I think too.

His sisters were either asleep / reading so I have come downstairs to study while DH snores.

it feels quite civilised for once.

Mine have a gro clock which wakes up at 7.15 so they get up after that. Pretty late I think but then again they are never asleep before 8pm.

Yep, I'm in the 'I can tolerate from 6am onwards but after 7 would be considerably better' camp.

Our 2yo has had NO truck with the groclock. She just ignores it and when we ask her if the sun has come up yet she says "yes! Sun's up!" And opens our curtain. I'm dreading the clocks changing...

7am although in the summer I did sometimes let after 6.30am slide when they were young as it was so light.

My youngest just turned 2 this week and for the last week has decided 5 am is his time to get up. I've tried everything to get him back to sleep but it's a no go. Think it's the lighter mornings and yes I have blackout curtains but the light still manages to escape out the top and bottom.

7am would be bliss. 8am is a distant dream. My older 2 just got up and in the holidays can easily sleep till nearly 10am.

I would call 7 civilised because that's when my alarm is set for. I never need it but still have it set in the event of a miracle happening.

Anything before 06.30 seems unreasonable to me! After 7 is good, after 7.30 is a lie in!

After 7am: ok
After 8am: civilised.

We hit.'ok' about 98%, of the time, and 'civilised' about 75% of the time. Still working on not waking up during the night though.

20m old.