Why do kids wake so bloody early?

[Itsnotmyfaultisit]

Mine were both up before 530 today. That is early admittedly but it’s generally around 6 for one and 7 for the other. Bedtimes make no difference to this. Obvious stuff like blackout curtains and so on tried. Whhhhy?

And to be fair I did find life vastly improved when I accepted it. Before that if he ever slept beyond 6 I would be frantically analysing the day, wondering what I did and trying to replicate. He dropped his nap about 10 months ago and now wakes up around 6 rather than 5 mostly.

Ours gets up between 5 and 6. It's not that bad, I just get up and play with her. The plus side is that she's always sound asleep by 8.

Family of vampires here. DD (13) has never woken before 7:30am unless she has been getting a flight. She slept midnight till noon as a baby/toddler.

But what happens when the clocks change, or you go abroad with a time difference or as a pp said if you were to move to New York..they would eventually adapt to the new time zone. It doesn’t happen over night though as you need to reset their body clocks. My kids have never once gone to sleep at 7 even as tiny babies, so never fell into this 7-5am routine many seem to have. I thought I was failing by keeping them up later, but then realized it gives us the later mornings so I’m sticking with it!

That's such a lovely perspctive and one I used to share until I became worn down enough by adult life to need sleep 😅

I think quite often there are those that love sleeping and those who see it as a waste of time (although necessary).

Aww your DC's comment really made me smile, how lovely 🥰

This is super sweet! My kids are early risers, so am I. As soon as they wake up, toys are out and they are on the go.

I would love to relax on a Sunday morning though.

I can never understand these threads

You haven't yet said how old your DCs are, but as soon as ours could talk we just said no getting up before 7.30 on work days and 8.30 on weekends or holidays (obviously for the toilet though).

If they woke early they would just read or play quietly in their room (they shared a room for many years), or they'd just eventually go back to sleep.

They very soon just slept through.

OP said 3 years old and baby (perhaps 1?).

This is exactly what we told my DC at a young age.

It was always said gently and we would never have told them off if they'd got up earlier (just politely sent them back to their room).

But it never happened. We just laid down some house rules and they followed them, until eventually they slept through, which took about three weeks.

@GasPanic - that wouldn’t work for my 3 year old. A) he would get hysterical and panic if we just left him alone from 5am and he wasn’t allowed out his room b) he can’t read, he’s 3. C) it would be a disaster if he was allowed to go and make his own breakfast before we woke.

Ds fell asleep at 9.45pm last night. He woke at 1am crying as was alone in his room, came into our bed. Woke at 2am for water, 3am wanted to get up. Managed to keep him in our bed and he semi dozed again, but he’s been wide awake and up
since 5am. I’m still in bed reading as is early o clock, but he’s been in and out his room playing, looking at books in our bed since. He is outside almost all day from 8am, doesn’t get tired.