To ask how you wake up in the morning?

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I'm so bad at snoozing my alarm! I have numerous ones set and I just can't seem to wake up. I'd love to get up before DS to get shit done but it doesn't happen, then I end up rushing around and being stressed in the morning. Do I just need more willpower to get up?

If you wake up early, how do you do it?

You probably need more willpower to go to bed earlier and get to sleep instead of being on MN ...says the pot to the kettle.

Well, not being online at 00:04 would help 😆

Get a cat. They sit on your head when they want breakfast. 😢

oh shit, is that the time?

You aren’t going to bed early enough. If you’ve had enough sleep you wake up naturally. I wake up roughly 8 hours after going to sleep. If the alarm goes off before I naturally wake then I need to go to bed earlier.

I could have done your post
almost word for word, the only difference is DD not DS.

A better question might be... how do I make myself go to sleep st a decent time and not stay up reading /watching shit on the internet! 🤣

Still trying to figure this out myself (clearly), even pre internet & smart phone days I always struggled to get to sleep at night and would stay up reading or watching videos/DVDs.

I think it’s more about being a morning person. My first thought is “yes! it’s the morning” rather than wanting more bedtime.
I like a lie in but an awake lie in with coffee and iPad and putting on washing or something then going back to bed. It seems a waste of my morning energy staying in bed sleeping.
Conversely I hate being up this late. I’m knackered by 6pm and finding the energy to anything has left. I find it hard to sleep these days whereas I never had a problem before. Menopause I think.

I can’t and am not a morning person. Instead I maximise my night time. So I get EVERYTHING ready the night before so we all literally wake up, step into laid out clothes and leave within fifteen minutes. This way I don’t panic at waking up relatively late.

That made me think of this TikTok. I was definitely going to be in bed before midnight...

It sounds like you're just not a morning person. I feel I live in a world of morning people when I am very firmly a night owl and always have been. Mornings, ugh! I do wish I was one of those bright eyed and bushy tailed folk, but it's just not me. I will stay in bed as long as I possibly can even if it does mean a mad rush! As someone else said, I make sure everything is organised the night before, clothes laid out, car keys in my bag, even down to the breakfast cereal and bowls. I exercise as much as possible to help with going to sleep, and I use a magnesium spray...it helps a little but I always struggle to get to sleep. The only time I have slept early was with a baby, so maybe there's your answer. Have more babies! LOL

I go to bed at 12.30 most weeknights. My alarm is on my phone next to the bed and goes off 7:10 am. I just get up the minute it goes off- in fact I normally wake up just before so get up and switch it off. I fall asleep v easy though - will be fast on in soon.
Pre phones/internet my alarm clock used to be on top of the the wardrobe so I had to get out of bed to switch the bugger off! I find it less painful (hate getting up) so just do it- snoozing prolongs the pain!
All that said I love a lie in at the weekend. I went to bed at 2.30am last night and slept til 1:00 pm today. ( no animals/young children in this house- all adults!)

A Lumie lamp - not the medical grade one just the normal one. Honestly changed my mornings forever, I am a horrendously bad morning person and this makes it so much easier to get up.

Ive gotten into a habit of getting tired/falling sleep early and waking up early.. try making yourself tired early evenings if you can with lots of activity

I'm a morning person naturally so my advice may not be helpful, but definitely going to bed earlier is one obvious tip. I go to bed at 10pm, and end up waking up naturally between 6 and 7am. Waking up via alarm interrupts your sleep cycle which is why it's soooo much harder to wake up to an alarm versus naturally.

Another tip I've heard is not to keep your phone by your bed. If you keep it on the other side of the room so you have to get up to snooze it, it should be easier to just get up rather than go back to sleep.

I'd also suggest developing a morning routine you enjoy, so you have something to look forward to when you wake up rather than a long list of chores. If time allows, maybe schedule in a bit of "me time" before getting on with the day? Even if it's just 15-20min to enjoy a coffee in solitude. I love the quiet calm of the early morning and not wanting to miss out on that definitely helps get me out of bed.

DS comes in and sweetly asks me if I’m awake, until I answer, usually at 6.30. That does the trick. 👀🙈

I replaced my ceiling light with a smart one, and so I have it programmed to come on about 10 minutes before I would normally set my alarm. It means I gradually sort of get used to it being daylight while I'm still semi-conscious and so when my alarm goes off I'm not 100% dead to the world. Works great 90% of time. Occasionally I'm a little too awake when comes on, so it's too much of a shock and I have to shout at Alexa to turn it off.

Several years ago I also found an alarm app which would only stop sounding if you took a photograph of a certain object. I had it set to recognise my bathroom, so I'd have to get up and out of bed and stagger along the hallway to get it to shut up. Worked even better, but far too harsh!! I think it was called 'alarmy' but it was a while ago now.

Well, I am a morning person. But I HAVE to get up as that's my exercise time and if I don't exercise the day is much harder.

This morning I woke up naturally at 4.30am, I went to sleep just after 9pm. Then I got up when my alarm went off at 5am and went for an hours walk in the rain with one of my dogs.

I have to wake the DC up for school at 6 and then it's school run and then I get to work at 7.40. So we have to get up and get on.

No advice. A loud alarm maybe?

Do not use snooze! Set your alarm for the latest time you need to get up, and get out of bed when it goes off.

Another vote for a lumie lamp. I was never a morning person but this has seriously and permanently changed my mornings!

You need to get to bed earlier. I get in bed at 9pm, and read for 30/45 minutes (my phone stays on airplane mode downstairs from 8pm). I'm up at 5/5:30 and feel well-rested. I'm someone who loves morning exercise, so I have a coffee and am out the door to run/gym. Home by 7:30 for DC school run and work.

My colleague said she puts her phone at the other side of the bedroom so she can’t snooze it, I guess that’s an option if you don’t have a smartwatch anyway. My DH is a bugger for knocking his alarm off on his watch…

Yep Lumie is the answer. I used to wake up like a zombie banging into door frames and groggy and now I wake up like a Disney princess all smiles and whatnot (sort of).

I did get the medical grade one and it wasn’t cheap but it was a present. It’s got a lovely sunset function too that helps me go to sleep. I set it for half an hour and then read until the light gets too dim and off I drop.

The other thing that has helped the most is to get everything ready the night before. Clothes laid out, shoes and bag by the door, even sometimes my coffee cup put on the counter by the kettle. Same for kids too. Makes for a much smoother morning.

This was me my whole working life and when actively parenting. The only time I can remember it not being difficult to get up was primary school age and then sixth form and teacher training college.
My only foolproof way of getting up for children and work was to allow at least an hour of pressing snooze! So getting up at 7 for everyone to be out of the house on time for school and work was alarm at 6. I would find it impossible to jump out of bed the minute the alarm went off.
Now I retired I’ve quickly worked out that although I often have trouble falling asleep ( often not til 1 am), and then wake up a couple of times for a wee,my best sleep is from about 5 am til 10 am - so I think those many years of up at 7 were just not the right fit for my body.

Yes to the getting everything ready by the door - I could work out to the minute how much time that would save.