The battle to get DH out of bed in the school holidays.

[Sleepiboi]

Kids only broke up on Tuesday and I'm already annoyed with him.

Kids are teens, so sleep in when not in school. On school days DH has to drive them /collect them as we moved further away for a bigger house and transport links aren't great.

But when it comes to the holidays he just won't get out of bed.

It causes so much tension. He would happily sleep in till midday every day if I left him.

But I wake up at around 7.30am and get up to sort the animals and other stuff that needs doing and I have to go in and wake him up 7 times over the course of hours.

He doesn't seem to think it's an issue but I think it's awful to just sleep all morning, every day.

If my husband started ordering me to get up at a certain time, I'd be changing the locks. You don't get to decide when your partner sleeps. If he chooses to sleep from 8am-4pm every day, or from 1am-10pm or any other sleep pattern, that's no more or less valid than 9pm-6am, and you have no more right to demand he adheres to your preferred schedule than he has a right to insist you stick to his. If he's doing his share of the chores when he's awake, he's doing nothing wrong.

He should be up and job hunting or doing casual work to contribute to household budget.

Should he be "pounding pavements" and "knocking doors with a stack of CVs"?

Or does the internet close early round your way?

Quite. If someone who liked to go to bed at 2am or 3am complained that their partner was continually choosing to go to bed at 10pm or 11pm leaving them with all the evening jobs and missing out on family time (and frankly, with teens you'll be getting more family time at 10pm, than 10am), then I doubt there would be such a chorus of "lazy, they should be up".

(and frankly, with teens you'll be getting more family time at 10pm, than 10am)

Especially as OP writes that teens are, in fact, sleeping in just like dad.

This!!!

She's a night owl too and usually sleeps around 9pm-8am. I do bedtimes and my husband does breakfast and takes her to nursery or preschool since he's the driver.

Why? If her father is taking her, why will OP want to if it doesn’t fit with her own work requirements? First day, maybe. After that I don’t see it’s any different from nursery

If everyone got up at 7am, had a shower and a cup of tea the national grid would go into meltdown. The fact that getting up and going to bed times are staggered around the country is a good thing. Water pressure would be affected too if everyone was filling the kettle at the same time.

There is a massive spike at half time during the cup final and that is nowhere near the whole population, probably less than 20% of households.

By getting up and going to bed later we are providing a public service and should be thanked accordingly.