To think being conscious before 8am is not inherently good?

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I am not a morning person. I have absolutely nothing against morning people, in fact i am jealous of them and wish i was one. But i'm not.

Is it unreasonable to find it deeply annoying when people (I mean you two PIL!) make out there is something morally good about getting up early?

"We were up with the larks", "early to bed, early to rise!" etc...

Fine, if you get up early to get loads of jobs out of the way so you can have fun / relax the rest of the day, you have every right to mild smugness. But it is the act of getting stuff done that is good NOT the fact you are conscious.

Geting up early to sit and enjoy the peace and quiet. Fine, good for you. But not good, in itself. i prefer to enjoy the peace and quiet whilst snug in bed thank you

Being "up with the larks" in order to sit and drink 10 cups of tea and do the crossword does not make you "very good". It especially does not give you the right to look at me like I am a lazy cow. You sat and drank tea, i got some much needed kip. Neither of us actually got anything done and i am at least dressed whilst you are STILL in your pyjamas

And by the way DD decided it was morning at 5am so technically I was up before you and just went back for a nap. Grrr.

For what it's worth i think the opposite, where people make out going to bed early is boring, is just as annoying.

AIBU?

Oh. I have a bouncer. 'Tis not restful.

I started a thread recently about letting him downstairs on his own to play in the mornings and got told I was mad. He's 2.9, and there was a Paint Incident....

You need a tv in your bedroom and his favourite DVD or an iPad to keep him amused for half hour to come to slowly 2.9 when it's downstairs and not a flat would be slightly to young I would say 4 tbh.

My Gran gets up at 4.30am so as not to waste the day! She usually starts making fresh bread for breakfast then. She's usually up until 11 or midnight too, with just an hour's nap in the afternoon. She claims you just don't need much sleep at 80.

I must take after Grandad, he lies in until 8 when he hears the bacon sizzling

I am an earlyish waker but a very late riser :) we are retired...
I wake at about 6.45 then dh and I have a cuppa and read the paper in bed.He gets up at 8ish and makes breakfast which I have in bed.Between breakfast and post breakfast cuppa I shower then get back in bed to steam with tea and toast. I get up at 10ish and dh has an hour's lie down.He gets up and I do coffee then we walk to shops ,come back and have lunch.
Two days a week I have to collect dgs2 from nursery school at 1pm.I take him home-play etc till we collect his brother at 3.15.Then more play etc till dd gets in at 5.30.I am home by 6.
We have dinner between 6.30 and 7.
By 10 dh is ready for bed but I stay up till 11.
When I go to bed we share a game of patience [on tablet] before we go to sleep :)

But don't old people just need less sleep anyway? And agree about teenagers -why on earth would you want them up before they need to be?

I work with people who choose to be at work for 7. Some with fairly long drives to work as welll? Why?[shock} What I really resent about the standard working day is that I'm forced to go to bed earlier than I want (and I usually go about midnight to 01.00) just so that I have to get up for work at a reasonable hour.

YANBU. It's the smugness of 'oh look, here comes sleepy head'. Never mind the fact that I can actually stay conscious throughout a whole episode of Inspector Morse, Touch of Frost... Oh and Mum I'd probably get more sleep when staying at your house if you didn't snore as loudly as an express train coming through.