to be cross with DD?

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DD6 has always been an ealry riser. DD2 (9 months) isn't sleeping well at the minute - combination of a cold and teeth I think. So this morning she barges into our room at 6.45 shouting at the top of her voice "Can I get up? Can I? Can I?" I tell her to go back to bed, so she goes into hysterics, wakes her sister meaning I have to get up with both of them.

I am knackered. DP is knackered. Both DDs are knackered. We need some sleep. How do we get her to stay in bed? She has a clock, can tell the time and it just doesn't help.

I hear bribery works well.

and that should be "DD1 (6)"

If she is 9 months, how does she get up and come into your room? Am I missing something?

Hmmm..... no help here, as I'm an early riser myself, 6.00.a.m. at the latest, but someone else will wake up soon.

When she's a teenager, you'll need a crowbar to get her out of bed.

If she is 6, that does make a difference!

I don't think 6.45 is that bad really. Mine usually get up around 7 and me and DH try to take it in turns to get up when we can.

You could always tell her what time she can get up and if she is any earlier, she will be going to bed that much earlier at night.

It's DD1 who barges in, DD2 had already been brought into our room at about 4.

When she's a teenager I plan to wake her at 6 every morning to get her back.

I would be cross tbh. We have a dd just turned 4 and for the last 18 months have used a rabbit clock to let her know when she can disturb us. We set it for 7 30 at the weekends. Sometimes she is awake at 6 30 but plays quietly in her room. She is not an angel child and we haven't beaten her into submission!!

At 6 you may not be able to control what time you wake up, but you can certainly control your behavior after you are awake.

I'd cry with happiness if I got to stay in bed til 6.45 tbh........in your position I'd be jumping for joy and buying DD a very big reward

Do you have blackout curtains on your DD's windows? They can work wonders for some children.

Do you think maybe she's feeling a little jealous of the baby in with you?

Definitely get a day/night clock for her room (they show a span of time in which it is day time and one in which it is night time - which you set up yourself) tell her she is not to get up when it is 'night time' unless it's an emergency (give her some guidelines here!!). Tell her if she does she will be going to bed that much earlier!!

At one stage LO was getting up earlier and earlier because it was more fun than sleeping, but she was still really tired, we told her she had to stay in bed and cuddle her teddies until it was morning (by the wake-up clock), she went back to sleep because she needed the sleep when she realised there was no fun to be had!

[DD6, I thought, how does this woman have time to post on MN? LOL]

Agree she could play quietly in her room, but what time are you putting her to bed in the evening, as that will have an effect on what time she wakens.
Perhaps an extra hour up in the evening,(grit your teeth), would help her sleep later in the morning.

Surely it would be easy to get another 30-60 minutes peace if you set up dd1 with a dvd in teh living room?

At age 6, she could set up her own dvd when she wakes up, no? Or a kids' programme.

dd1 used to go and watch a bit of telly in teh mrongin at weekends from age 3.

DD1 is 6and gets up and puts the TV on

Will even make her own breakfast if she's hungry enough

If she's in a really good mood she'll make dd2's for her as well

They need good training, IMO

DD1 is 6 and this summer for the first time I have told her to quietly go downstairs and put the telly on. I leave her brekkie stuff out for her the night before, and she really relishes the independence.

I agree with sapphireblue - 6.45am would be great. My DS1 who is 5 has always been a good sleeper - but to me that is sleeping til 7am!

Lately, he has somehow set his body clock an hour earlier so wakes at 6am sometimes at 5.30am we had a big row the other day that 4.45am was NOT the morning!!!!

I have tried putting him to bed later in the holidays say 8ish but he still wakes at 6am so he is just missing out on an hours sleep everyday.

However, now through bribery he does know NOT to come into our room - he gets up and either plays in his room or goes downstairs and puts the tv on - I can still hear him do this but I can at least doze with a half an ear listening out that last hour until his brother wakes at 7ish.

Bribery/sticker chart is the way forward.

DD1 is 6 and an early riser. It does not matter what time we put her to bed, she is always up by 6.

Our sunday morning lie in solution:

Old TV and DVD in bedroom (wall mounted out of reach). It is not connected to an aerial, so she cannot watch it at any other time. On a saturday night, my DDs choose a DVD they want to watch in the morning. Give them the remotes when I go to bed, and when they wake up they get to watch a film for an hour and a half so I get a lie in.

Breakfast is solved by buying the multipacks of cereals. Again, they are not allowed sugary cereals during the week, so the fact they are allowed frosties or something at the weekend is a real treat. As one box = one portion, it means that there is no mess to come down to, and we put enough milk into the milk jug.

I now find that I get to lie in until gone 8, often closer to 9 most Sunday mornings now. Bliss!