aibu to ask..if your child was an early riser when did they grow put of it? because my son is driving me bloody mental!!!

[LalaLeona]

13 month old getting up at 4.20 every day..nothing but nothing gets him back to sleep! If your kid was like this..what age did they start sleeping longer?

DS is 3.5 and a 5am-er.
The grow clock has been essentially useless until about 3 months ago - now he knows he is not supposed to come into our room until the sunshine is up, but he can get out of bed and play in his room.

In reality, what that means is I get 10 minute bursts of sleep from 5 interspersed with 'I need a poo! I need a drink! My toy is not working! I need. Cuddle'

Before the grow clock I used to let him into bed with us and let him watch the IPad while I went.m back to sleep.

My 8yo sleeps in (to 7ish) but the 5 and 10 yr old are up from 5 every damn day of the week.

5am here too. He's 4 and no signs of it ending I'm afraid. I go to bed around 9.

He gets it from me, sadly. :(

About 7. But he knows not to get up before 6am. He has a digital clock for years which we taught him to look at and if before 6am he's not allowed to get up. Now he's up between 6 and 7:30.

Haha this is not what you want to hear either, but my brother stayed over last night. He's 13 & he's always up before 6! I don't understand it! He didn't even go to bed early I thought maybe it was just for my mum. But sadly no.

Ds wasnt that bad. I didnt acknowledge the morning until 6am. School helped , but he only learnt to lie in recently (about to be 13)

Nearly seven and anywhere between 515 and 630 for the last five years. No sign of that changing.... and as a single parent, no way of asking anyone else to get up with him once in a while...

Ds is waking up at 5.45 these days. We keep the dvd of that loathsome ra-ra creature in our bedroom tv - one press of a button and we get another half hour or so!

We had a lie in today..7am 2 DS (7 and 4). Oh the friends that say, "we have to wake ours up for school everyday at 7.45."

I feel like screaming after my 4th 5am wake up in a row.

You do get more done in a day though, I am desperately searching for positives!

Mine were up at 5.30-6 every day until they were about 6 I'd like to say I can remember how awful that was,but I was so tired all the time that I actually can't recall much of those 5 years!

Yes Dd and Ds were always up around 6.30. Now they are teenagers it's harder to get them out of bed!

My 8 year old is still up well before 6, whenever it drives me nuts I think of the teenage years when I will struggle to get him out of bed and imagine (not that I would!) waking up him up before 6 when he has been out clubbing!!

My 13 year old still gets up at 6am at a weekend!

Don't have kids yet but I was always up between 4-6am and I still haven't grown out of it

Ds is nearly 5 and usually wakes up between 6-6.30. We had YEARS of 5am wake ups, and last weekend we were away and he woke up at 5.30am both days. What does annoy me is when he wakes up really early on both weekend days and then needs to be dragged out of bed at 6.30 on a school day

My DD was up at 5am as a little one, got slightly better when she started school, but now even at the age of 13 she's usually up by 6.45 and I've never known her sleep past 8 - even if she's been up late!!

Well dd1 is 9 and I'm still waiting. Dd2 is 7 and I'm still waiting there too!

It gets easier when you don't actually have to get up with them though or can send them back to bed to read a book.

DS will soon be 8. He usually is awake by 5 (I hear him use the bathroom) but is on strict instructions not to put his light on til 5.30.
At the weekends (today is a school day - not in the UK) he gets himself up and makes his own breakfast and watches TV. But not allowed before 6am. He usually helps his younger brother get breakfast, and then i get up around 7 after my "lie in".
From about 3 he could follow gro clock instructions.

OP I so feel your pain. DS would regularly wake up at 4.15am. We tried glo clock, blackout blinds & curtains and manipulating nap & bed times, nothing worked, so we just went with it.

DH or I would nap on the sofa whilst he played or watched TV, or give him the iPad. My mum was once critical of giving an iPad to a 2.5year old but I was so tired I would have given DS the car keys if it bought me an extra 30 mins sleep.

Once DS started school he started to wake up a bit later, between 5-5.30am. Now in Yr1 and we regularly get a lie in, he wakes anytime between 6-7am but will happily play in his room for a while. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

I was a really early riser - used to wake up at 3am singing nursery rhymes really loudly and drive my parents mad! I didn't so much grow out of it as get old enough to get a book/breakfast for myself.

BUT all kids are different. My friend's appalling sleeper went literally overnight to 12 hours flat out when he was about 20 months old, so you might get lucky

With my eldest I just accepted the early starts. Since he's been 3 a gro clock kept him in his room until 6.15.

My 2 yo is an early riser. When I separated from my ex I bought a TV for my bedroom. 2 yo is always in my bed. At 5 am I'd put peppa pig or whatever on.

I often bring snacks up the night before in preparation eg Sandwich and banana.

I'm very tired but at least I'm not having to entertain him at early hours.

Weekends/holidays I put a table of special breakfast snacks in eldests room after they've gone to sleep. They are allowed a "secret" breakfast , picnic and play whenever they wake up. It's so exciting I get left in peace (usually!).

DS finally started sleeping past 6am at the grand old age of 15.
DD is 13 and I'm still waiting!
She had a sleepover last night and while 4 of her friends are still asleep, she's still up nice and early, halfway through watching a film already.

You are at the worst age for this as gro clock doesn't work. We found from 2.5ish our early riser was able to be trained to stay put 'until the sun wakes up'. We still only set it for 6:30 (she's 5 now) but that feels like a long lie when you're used to 4-5am starts.

Never. He's now 18 and still up by 5am