To think 7:30am is a perfectly reasonable time for young children to get up

[lechatnoir]

I've just come back from holiday with my family that all went well except for a daily debate about what the time the kids should get up!
We've always known my DC get up much earlier than DN's so I equipped mine with a clock, torch, books, toys etc & told them to stay quietly in their room til 8am knowing it could be nearer to their usual get up time of 7:30. On the first day they slept until 7:50 & when everyone else surfaced SIL kept commenting that my nephew would be really grumpy without his sleep and it was far too early to start the day on your holidays. I agree that 7:30 can't be classed a lie-in but really can't imagine many young children are tucked up asleep past 8am & expecting my DC to creep around until 9am is every bit as 'selfish' as mine are for being up & about before 8.
Maybe I was being overly sensitive but I really felt she was suggesting we were to blame for allowing them up at such an ungodly hour and if we just laid down the law they'd sleep in like her DC. So as not to be accused of drip feeding, we would take them downstairs & shut the kitchen door and wouldn't allow the usual noise but my DC are very much up & raring to go in the morning & definitely not the silent types

AIBU waking her kids up at this time or is she being unreasonable in expecting to sleep in?
LCN
Ps kids are 2, 3, 6, 6 & 7

I suppose I wouldn't know because unfortunately DS has never needed much sleep but there are children who go to bed at 7.30pm and sleep until 9am?

Actually, don't answer that. I'll just get depressed.

Seems a bit of a waste of a holiday for a child though, to spend it in bed.

Wilson

I wish! I'd trade 7.30 for 5.45 any day! In fact, I'd be happy with 7.00. Just not before six!

Of my 4 dds 2 are complete opposites ends of the spectrum in needing sleep - one is a mega sleeper and in reception often did 6/6.30 until 8.15! Her younger sister at the same age was doing 9pm until 6am - just made with completely different sleep needs! The other 2 are in between and much more "average" IMHO

yanbu
wow 7.30 is a lay in with young children

YANBU

wish DD slept until 7.30... for me that would be a lie in!

yanbu but did she reeeaaallly moan or just make that one comment? cos think u maybe taking it a bit to heart?

Shes not only selfish but bonkers too!

Surely stealth boast?!?!! Do any children stay asleep after 5.30am (thanks DS!)??....

Next time just make sure your youngest DCs know that it's Auntie SIL that especially wants them to jump on her bed greet them effusively first thing!

She sounds like a barrel of larfs.
Of course YANBU.

Anyone who feels like crying on this thread, come on over to Sleep and join our early waking thread 6am is considered a long lie-in on that thread.

She obviously has those magical long-sleeping children. I have a less than 2 yo who needs 10 hours a night at the most

She IBU. It's not a matter of being allowed to wake up, is it? DN1 is a world champion sleeper but 1yo DN2 thinks sleep is for the weak & rejects his bottle as it makes him drowsy; he is typically raring to go at 5 and if I went on holiday with DSis I would have to lump it.

Yabu. I hate getting up early and on holiday 730 is the middle of the night! Ds is six averages about 930. Couldn't you have let them stay up late? X

7:30 is a good lie in for us! I have 3 under 5 and don't expect a lie in for at least 9 more years .

It doesn't matter what time DD goes to bed she is awake after 10.5hrs of sleep or 7am whichever is EARLIER!! It is hell. YWB thoughtful to keep DC in their room till 8 and then playing quietly downstairs. Am not sure what else you could have done!?!?

Not at all.

I have to get DS up at 6.30, (with good old fashioned spongebob bribery) so I can get to work but on my day off he's up at 8-9.

If I have a week off he is guaranteed to be up at 7!

If you are on hol tho can't you keep them up bit later to get an adults much longed for 'holiday lie in' ... thats what everyone i know reverts to in School Hols ....

Ah, the 'holiday lie in'.

I have heard tale of such a thing...
No-one told DS though. No matter how late he went to bed, he would be up at the usual time the next morning. Just grumpier.

I hear ya Wilson - DD was up till 11pm (our time) on hols- dancing - she woke up at 7am - I wanted to die!

I think that's a reasonable time. My friends kids get up at 4:30am every day. That would kill me! I'm lucky that my daughter is as lazy as me and doesn't surface until gone 10 on a non-school day.

That's insane, my kids are normally up at 6!

She's annoyed? OP, I'll go away with you,

YANBU 730 is a perfectly respectable time for anybody to be up and about holidays or not.

Sorry, wasn't finished. DD is always up at 6.30. can't believe anyone would expect a two year old to be in bed beyond 7am.

YANBU