When do they sleep in? Is it soon? Go on tell me it's soon

[MollyBloomYes]

It's late. I should be in bed because my two darlings (5 and almost 7) will be up in probably 4.5 hours. Maybe 5 if I'm lucky. 5.5 if that blue moon is shining. It's also really nice and quiet though so I'd rather enjoy that than have a full nights sleep.

However I'd love to know from parents of older children-when do they sleep in? Do I need to wait until they're teenagers? I can't use myself as an example, apparently I've always slept as late as possible and was one of those mythical babies that had to be woken up to be fed. I'm a single parent, no idea what their dad was like as a child (and no way of finding out) but certainly he was a big fan of sleep as an adult.

I'm just curious really, at the moment I can't ever imagine them sleeping in. Doesn't matter how late they get to bed or how tired they are they will be up at stupid o clock. Gro clocks, dark room, light room, noise, silence, reading quietly in bed, nothing makes a difference. It is what it is and I've pretty much accepted that's how they're built currently. But I'd love to know if anyone else had similar early risers who then grew to love the lie in!

Step kids are 10 and 12 and definitely sleep til at least 7 and have for a couple of years. The 12 year old is starting to sometimes sleep in longer now til 8 ish. I’m sure in a couple more years we won’t see him before lunch time!

Ds 7 will sleep in if he's had a late night as a treat.The record is 11am boxing day 2 years ago

My 8 & 9 year olds are usually up around 7ish. Bit they are more than capable of entertaining themselves safely, getting cereal and generally managing for a couple of hours. And if they need me they know where I am!

Mine’s 9 and she’s slept in for a few years now. Yesterday it was 8.10am, today it was 7.50am. I too was one of those babies who had to be woken to be fed - but my daughter wasn’t!

GalesThisMorning and daseychain that's mad - at what age do you believe everyone loses the ability to sleep past 6am?

One of my grandmothers was 99 when she died and watched TV til 1am and slept in til mid day throughout her 70s, 80s and 90s...

Mine are 10,8 and 6. They rarely wake me up before 9/930 when there’s no school. School mornings I have to wake them every day. They’ve always liked their sleep though and mainly never woke up before 7am. This is invaluable for me as someone who works evenings and gets home around 2am.

@GalesThisMorning
They start sleeping in at the same point that you lose the ability to sleep past 6 am, sorry OP.

This !! Seriously, this happens.

*@kickergoes
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Some wild assumptions there that everyone is having children at the same age. I'm 33 with a 10 year old, we both enjoy a lie in.

I was also 33 with a 10 year old. My comment was nothing to do with age and more to do with the fact that when you've had kids waking you early for 10+ years your body clock keeps that up.

Excuse me for making a tongue in cheek comment that doesn't apply to every mum that ever existed

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

GalesThisMorning and daseychain that's mad - at what age do you believe everyone loses the ability to sleep past 6am?

One of my grandmothers was 99 when she died and watched TV til 1am and slept in til mid day throughout her 70s, 80s and 90s...

Sorry.

Next time I make a jokey comment I will consider your grandmother.

@daseychain it wasn't funny...just adding to the whole "just you wait" tedious rhetoric we all get from the moment we get pregnant. Maybe just make a joke about yourself rather than make out it's going to happen to everyone else. My children haven't been waking me up for the last 10 years because you know, boundaries.

NRFT but ime when they get up is different from when you need to get up.

Leave breakfast out for them in the living room and teach them how to work the TV.

[quote kickergoes]@daseychain it wasn't funny...just adding to the whole "just you wait" tedious rhetoric we all get from the moment we get pregnant. Maybe just make a joke about yourself rather than make out it's going to happen to everyone else. My children haven't been waking me up for the last 10 years because you know, boundaries.[/quote]
So you have a 10 year old, and your 'children' haven't woken you for the last 10 years?

Really?

Where do you get these magical babies with 'boundaries' ?

daseychain oh you're one of those. Jokes are meant to be funny in the context they're made. You picked a thread started by a single parent desperate for a lie in after seven years of early starts - inthat context you knew full well that your "joke" was cruel, but made it anyway. There's a type of person who does that, and its not actually the type with a good semse of humour, but the type who uses "humour" as a cover for unpleasant comments.

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

daseychain oh you're one of those. Jokes are meant to be funny in the context they're made. You picked a thread started by a single parent desperate for a lie in after seven years of early starts - inthat context you knew full well that your "joke" was cruel, but made it anyway. There's a type of person who does that, and its not actually the type with a good semse of humour, but the type who uses "humour" as a cover for unpleasant comments.

What in God's name are you on about?

Read the OP. Read the thread title. It's clearly a light hearted thread!

Some angry Mumsnetters about today, get in the sun and unclench

Neither of mine have ever slept in.

One is late teenage and other is in his 20s.

daseychain as other posters have said, none of that "it only gets harder" crap is either true or funny, and its only nasty little people who think that sort of "banter" is funny. You've continued to double down, as is typical of the type of people who try to blame others who call them out for not finding their piss poor attempts at cruelty as comedy funny.

I think my DS was 12 or 13 the first time he spent the whole day in bed. I remember having a go at him, as I'd been out all day, and I came home to find him just getting up about 5. 30 p.m.on a glorious sunny day in late summer.

About 11 for my two. I was FaceTiming them both at 11.30 this morning calling them lazy arses and demanding they roll o of bed :) (I'm in a wheelchair so struggle to go up and throw cold water on them).

They are 12 and 16 and I am almost certain they are vampires.

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

Wow

I agreed with another poster who said that when they start to sleep in you lose the ability to do so. This is my experience. I'm sure my experience is not the same for everyone but you know, public forum where mums share their own points of view.

It was a lighthearted comment on a lighthearted thread, not comedy gold nor nasty.

Your ability to twist things and be so vile about it is quite worrying dear!

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

GalesThisMorning and daseychain that's mad - at what age do you believe everyone loses the ability to sleep past 6am?

One of my grandmothers was 99 when she died and watched TV til 1am and slept in til mid day throughout her 70s, 80s and 90s...

Your granny sleeps like my 18 year old

One of them is unusual in that. I won't say who

Oops having just read through the thread I see now it took an unexpected turn! Funny and weird!

mine started at about 10 , now if i wasnt to get her up for school ,she will sleep in until mid morning , some weekends when we arent going out its been midday before shes come down , shes 12 now and can also sit up half the night if i was to let her , beware of what you wish for , its not a good thing once they start school and are lying in bed groaning whilst you are trying to get them up in enough time to actually get there when they are meant to be in , its very stressful and i wish she was an early riser now i really do , i could put her to bed at 6.30 and she still would be slumbering away till 10 am if not woken im sure

Mine are 6 and 8 and wake before 7 every day. The eldest often before 6.

However they are not allowed out of their room before 7 and at the weekends they are allowed to go downstairs and put the TV on once it’s 7. Hence DH and I get a bit of a lie in till about 8.30 when they want breakfast. (Soon DC1 will be able to get breakfast too). Highly recommend this system.

Oh dear some people are a bit overtired on here today.

couldnt resist