Waking us everyday at 6.30 am

[Springinabundance]

We have guests staying for ten days, it’s actually my parents. They go to bed at 9pm and wake at 6.30. They’re in the spare room right next to our room.
My dad wakes and goes to one of the bathrooms very close and brushes his teeth, clears his throat etc.
Dd, 4, is completely overtired and very difficult 😩
She needs 11 hours sleep to be her normal self. I take her up to bed at 7, but with the lighter evenings, she sometimes doesn’t fall asleep until 8.30.
I’ve asked my mum if they could please try to keep quieter in the mornings as Dd needs her sleep etc. She said it’s hard to stay in bed if you’re awake and up (she’s very quiet though tbf)
I don’t know what the solution is here 🤷🏻‍♀️
Dh is exhausted too as Dd is sharing with us, so he often comes down to sleep on the sofa…my dad comes down at 6.30 to make a coffee and open the doors etc
Our usual wake up time during the week is 8ish and weekends a bit later.
Its been another 6.30 start today and already Dd is acting nuts!

Exhausted getting up at 6.30 am?!

Lord you are so very precious.

However I do think it's your parents fault as they raised you this way. Just ask them, as a PP said, to stay quietly in their room till your horrifically early 8am, having provided tea making facilities. Then sit back whilst the rest of the country 'coped with' little ones getting up at sunrise.

Did your parents raise you to be this unpleasant or is it something you learnt yourself?

What a needlessly unpleasant post.

Christ.

Op, have a word with your dad and ask if he could keep the noise down until after 7. Early risers tend to think that the rest of the world is missing the best bit of the day etc but I would struggle to get up before 7.

Re. A nap, does going on a drive make her fall asleep? Could you do this after school pick up?

If I am someone's house guest I expect to fit in with them. Their house their rules etc. If I don't like their house rules I don't stay. The OP isn't running a hotel or B&B.

@Theelephantinthecastle

But the suggestion that she walk her DD to school, then walk back, then drive to work, instead of driving 2 mins to school, dropping off DD, then carrying on driving to work is surely utterly pointless? Unless you're desperately looking to get more walking into your day, why would you not do the whole thing in one go, in the car? Presumably the school is pretty much on the way to work, so she'd probably be driving right past it!

I f she is as tired as you claim she wouldnt be taking 90 minutes to drop off

@nighthawk99 Completely overtired, so hyper and unable to switch off.

But driving is almost always going to be quicker than walking. My point is that there are reasons other than speed to choose walking.

True. You're dd will be awful at supper in a restaurant. Maybe have a lie down with her in your bed this afternoon. Maybe then she'll sleep. Or get a baby sitter. You know these families with badly behaved kids out? You'll have one of your own. Good luck.

I stayed with my mum after my dad passed. I don't live in England any more. She'd have the radio on at 8am'ish when I was still asleep. I'd get all bleary eyed. She'd say oh darling, did I wake you? Every day till I went home. Parents.

Could give them a chamber pot and put a lock on the outside of the door so when you've properly woken up you can go and let them out

Yes great idea. Or, have you not got a garden shed op? Pop them in there on a blow up bed, give them a flask and tell them you do not want to set eyes on them until 9am.