to expect a 6 and 4 year old to sleep past 5.30am?

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They are in bed by 7.30 and usally asleep by 8.30. My sister seems to think nothing of it (her DCs are the early risers) whilst I think it is abnormally early.

We need a wider research field please.

Ds (10 ) gets up between 2 and 4am, in fact hes up now.

I'm used to it now tbh and will just idly supervise until It's time to get school stuff together.

will he stay up now cheesey?

ooh its me MrsRB btw

Yep, I'll prop an eye open till 4 ish then do takes over till he leaves for work at 6. Teamwork innit.........I should let some of those disability benefit bashers on ere live my life for a week. That'll learn em.

how are you still alive on that little sleep? more to the point how is your ds? and he always looks so energetic!

He goes to bed at 9 so is getting 5 hours or so at least, I could send him later but it means I get no me time.

It does catch up in him from time to time and he either gets ill or sleeps for 24 hours. Screwed up my bodyclock tho, only 30 and I'm worn out.

wow!

YABU to expect them to sleep, but not to expect them to get up.
As you can tell from the time of this post I'm not a person to sleep in, and I never have been.

As long as they have some quiet toys / books / drawing paper then there is nothing wrong them staying in their rooms until a suitable hour.

Cheese my ds goes to bed when your ds is getting up also ASD. Normal bedtime is quarter to four, early bedtime is before 3am and once or twice a week like this morning he hasn't bothered going to bed at all.
Sixteen years of no sleep means I'm pretty much immune to it all now and sleep as badly as he does.
We sleep split shifts here too, I normally grab a couple of hours before midnight.

My DC don't wake early, thank goodness. I am rubbish when I'm tired.

My Dsis's youngest DD wakes her up every morning between 4 and 5am, and can't be sent back to bed, or play quietly in her room. She shares a room with her older sister and will wake her older sister if she isn't taken downstairs to play, so my Dsis gets up early every morning and takes her downstairs, then plays games with her until it's time for school or the other DC wake.
It's easier than having a tantrumming 8 yr old waking the whole household. I'm not sure how I'd function in that situation. I'd have a very short fuse within a few days I'd imagine, especially since Dsis also works 2 - 10pm.

my three always woke at about 5.30 when they were young
nearly killed me but now the youngest are 4 and 6 they sleep till 7 ish now thank god

good luck

have you thought of a glo clock? I think thats what they are called

theres a thread on here at the mo where a mother of 1 year old twins stayed up all night to declutter and clean her house

power to her but NOT something I would ever do

Haha, we should swap over insanity, a change is as good as a rest.

I don't really sleep tbh, more cat nap, haven't had a full deep sleep since the boy went into a bed aged 3...........not too bad term time as I can have a sleep in the day but I do feel constantly groggy......nice to know i'm not alone anyways !

early to bed, earl;y to rise! mine go to bed 9pm (I know!!!) but awake 8am onwards

OP, not enough information in your post. What have you tried to get them to sleep in longer in the mornings or to wake up but not disturb you? Also, do they have any physical/mental issues affecting their sleep?

My DD sleeps great but I was an early riser most of my childhood, always up before my parents. Even as a teenager I would wake at 6. But I never disturbed my parents.

YABU to expect them to sleep later than that but NBU to expect them to entertain themselves until 745.

littlemiss, your dsis wakes up with her 8 year old!? does the child have any reason to wake so early or have tantrums at age 8? because if you're not missing anything out I am gobsmacked! I thought you were describing a 2 yo.

My dd was a very early riser 4.45am for about a year, but we bought her a gro clock which changes from moon to sun when it's time to get up. She follows that now. It took a while but with lots of gentle explanations and encouragement shes very good. She is often awake before it changes but she doesn't come in unless she needs us.

Second Groclock. 3 and 5 yr old have one and although of course they wake up earlier than 7am they are not allowed to bother us before then! Move it forward 15mins at weekends for that luxurious extra sleep in. We hear them any time from 6 and they know that if they come and wake us up they are sent straight back so now they rarely do. I can hear them of course but that's not the same as having to get up and deal with them!

Daenerys Yes, My niece wakes the whole family if allowed my sister every morning between 4 and 5am, regardless of how late she goes to bed. No medical, physical or SN problems, she is just an early waker and once awake, is apparently lonely and bored, and wants my sister up to play.
In my niece's defence, my sister has spent the last 8 years doing almost anything to stop niece tantrumming, just cannot ignore it, and niece will wake the whole family if she is not whisked downstairs and occupied immediately.
Usually putting the tv on her favourite channel or playing a game with her keeps her quiet until everyone else awakens.

That is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sympathy. Anything before 6am is vile.

My DS was a horribly early riser. I tried everything. When he was a baby I taped black out material over his window and hung fabric accross the door, so that not a scrap of light could enter the room. I kept him up later, I tried to feed him back to sleep. I did everything that every book & every mumsnetter ever suggested.
None of it worked - ever!
After DD was born and slept quite happily until 7.30am every day, I realised that DS was just wired that way. For about two years I put a TV / DVD player in my room & I would put something like Teletubbies on very quietly when he came in at 5.00/5.30am & he would snuggle into bed & watch it & I would go back to sleep.
From the age of 4 he could put on the TV himself & stick his own DVD in and whether it is good or not, that is what he did every morning in the living room all by himself, until I got up at about 6.30/7.00.
He is 12 now & it is only in the last 6 months that he has started to sleep beyond 6.30am on rare occasions.

I never understand why people complain about theuir DC getting up early when they are going to bed early.

that would drive me crazy littlemiss! your dsis I mean. I am just learning how to not get upset about my dbro's other peoples parenting :)

BsshBossh - My dsis uses the same tatic of getting them to play in their rooms until a more sociable hour so their wake up time doesn't bother her much.

However, when they stay at AuntTrixi's house they have to share a room which is next to mine and DPs and it is difficult not to be woken up by their nattering.

Obviously, I don't have to deal with this on a daily basis so I wasn't complaining - we were just intrigued as to what others had experienced as our DCs are very different (my DSC wake up around 7.30am).

My kids go to bed at 9pm (7,5 and 2) and get up at about 8-9am. They are usually up or stirring by the time they need to get up for school, occasionally they get up earlier and come down and watch netflix for a bit. The only time they ever woke at 6.30am and bothered us was Xmas morning, we told them it wasn't really morning yet and to sleep another hour or two - they didn't get up until gone 9am... :) I wouldn't cope well with early risers so YANBU.