Do you get a lie in when you've dc?

[strawberryfoam]

Do you get a lie in at the weekend when you've young dc? Husband thinks we should take turns in having a lie in at weekend he takes Sunday whereas I've Saturday whereas I miss not been able to have breakfast all together or waiting on parent having a lie on to get up so you can get out and do stuff. A lie on for him is 11/12. We've neighbors with children of similar age and they're always up and out early each weekend

We do this at weekends, me Saturday and DH on a Sunday. But we're up by 10.

Yes ..... why should both of you wake up at silly O'clock. Maybe state 10am to get out of bed though ... but overall I think you should take it in turns.

I get one only in that I get up at 5 during the week and get until 7 at the weekend.

I can't get back to sleep once I've woken, so there's no point having a lie in as I'd just get bored! DH gets up at about 7 every day. He's never said he'd like a lie in really, but I don't think he would have one anyway; he prefers to get up together.

A lie in here is no later than 9am. Neither of us like to stay in bed any later than that.

Ours are a little older now, but would have come into bed with us or played in their rooms until we got up.

Yes, when you have older children. My two were both up at 9.30 this morning
I'd been up since 8.30 - a lie-in for me

We don’t do lie ins. We both find that we’re so used to getting up before 7 that we wouldn’t be able to sleep any longer on our designated ‘lie in’ day anyway. And to be honest we’re both in bed by 10.30pm usually so don’t really need one.
I’d be pissed off at not being able to go out/do something until lunch time.

DH works shifts which makes lie ins more common. I probably have two a week, as does he. Sometimes, DD will come into our room in the morning and I’ll let BBC iplayer parent while we both have one.

I've been known to lie in until 11 or 12, but a lie in for me is very rare, and being left undisturbed that long, rarer. I usually desperately need the sleep and that takes priority over a family breakfast for me!

We take it in turns for a lie in but it’s until 8am max.

We did until DS was 3. Before that we needed the rest as he'd be up around 5am. But it was always until 9am.

Dh is typically up and out of bed by 6am as he's so used to waking early for work and once awake he can't laze in bed. However he will go to bed for a snooze one weekend afternoon.

I'm more likely to sleep in but sat and Sunday we have acrivites which we need to leave at 9am for so a lay in is 8am maximum. During the holidays the Saturday activity isn't on, and so then a lay in is possible yet we still find ourselves up by 8am.

My children are 9,6 & 5 and have always been early risers, it's a win if they're not up before 7am and that is rare. Usually they're up and about by 6am.

I think a two parent family should get a lie in at least every other weekend.

It's taken me a decade of being a LP to be able to get a lie in until 9. DS brings me my cup of tea in a travel mug.

I get my annual lie in tomorrow! I'm allowed mother's day and that's it

I’m up at half six in the week so a lie in is 8 for me! Ds can sleep till then at weekends which is lovely. We usually lay in bed together at weekends when he wakes up but I don’t like to waste the day anymore. It’s much more preferable for me these days to be up and out by ten. We tend to meet friends on Sundays and take a walk.

Our house is small anyway so if one gets up you can still hear everything lol

I would totally prioritise a lie in over breakfast. We each take a day and decided who gets which day based on individual plans eg if one of us has a night out we get to lie in the morning after.

We don't tend to lie in past 9-9.30 and will occasionally have brunch as a family.
Sleep is valuable!!

No, I've never had a lie in since I became a mother 29 years ago. The latest I ever get up now is probably 9 am, but thats only if I went to sleep at a stupid time like 5 am. I can only sleep for 6 hours at the most anyway. Love getting up really early in the summer, in the winter I don't get out of bed until I have to (about 7.15 on a weekday).

When our DC were small we used to take turns. We needed the sleep.

I got Saturday, he got Sunday. For years, until ds2 was 5 and we got a Wii (oh happy day). Nowadays they're 12 and 10 and we have a family breakfast at 9.30am - before that they game and we sleep.

29 years?!

That sounds like a prison sentence.

We don’t take turns. If one of us is shattered then we chat about it the night before and arrange to sleep in but it’s only really until 8.30ish otherwise you waste the day. My husband probably sleeps later than me more often but he might do more with them one afternoon to give me some space so it all works out in the end!

@megletthesecond that only works if you both have weekends off. DH often doesn't, that's why a lie in is a rare treat for me.

Does it matter what everybody else is doing?
He wants a lie in, you want to use tge day as a family. So the obvious answr is one day you get up as a family, one day he gets a lie in, everybody's happy.
If you're concerned about him having more "me time" than you, take it anither time. If you're not bothered about "me time" don't have it.

DD's allowed to be up late of Friday and Saturday nights, so we usually end up get a bit of a lie in.

We take it in turns for lie ins depending on what we have on at the weekend. Days swop if one of us has been out the night before, going to the gym In morning etc.

Never until 11/12 though. More like 10/10.30 otherwise I would feel like the days been wasted. Kids get up at 7-8am anyway so very hard to get back to sleep anyway so we both find it hard to lie in bed past those times anyway.

We take Sundays turn about for lie in as Saturdays we need to be up