Does your year 6 child get themselves up?

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Just that really.... does your year 6 child get themselves up and to school on their own?

Not to school as this is a car ride away but other than me occasionally having to chivvy movements on as we get towards the end of the week, I have little involvement. Usually they’re ready to go in the kitchen on time and off we go!

Yip. And has been since she was 8 or 9.

Out of bed with her own alarm. Downstairs and gets breakfast. Back up to get dressed. Then water bottle, snack, shoes, coat, and comes through to say cheerio. She is a fiercely independent girl.

DH and I are up and about getting ready for work so she's not totally by herself but we don't help her unless she asks.

Oh, and she walks to school cos we live at the edge of the car park 😆

Yes. Since year 5, she's been in charge of her alarm, getting herself breakfast, washing, dressing, organising and remembering whatever stuff she needs (pe kit etc, books), meeting up with her friend at a prearranged time and walking to school herself.

I wake her and make her breakfast but getting up and getting herself ready inc remembering what to take to school is all her responsibility.

OMG my older teenager doesn't get himself up! I go in and give him a wee kiss and tell him he has a five minute warning. Have my shower then go in and tell him to get in the shower. 🤣 He would literally hit snooze for hours.

I should add he does everything else himself... Just in case you think I still put his socks and shoes on for him too 🤣

Depends in the person. My husband is in his 50s and if I didn't wake him up before I left the house he'd not get up before 10 am (the earliest he wakes up naturally at the weekend). My 17yo needs to be woken multiple times and my 12yo currently sleeps the latest of us all. My 15yo takes after me and is an early riser. In the evening the 15yo and I willingly go to bed well before 10pm, the 12yo needs to be heavily nagged to go to bed at a reasonable time and will read for ages and the 17yo and DH are both lost causes, DH rarely is in bed before midnight and will sometimes pull an all nighter if he's got a work deadline. Drives me insane.

No,we have to drive to school but regardless they need regular reminders to stay on track.

My eldest got herself up and sorted from about that age with an alarm.
The middle one needed an alarm akin to Concordes sonic boom to wake them up.
Third one is year 8 and requires a nudge but will get up and ready. 2 days a week I need to leave for work before he leaves for school but I always do him breakfast before I go because it gives him a deadline to be washed dressed and ready before I go. He has a half an hour walk to school and if he’s late it’s on him!

In fairness I have been very spoiled and my husband brings me a coffee every morning to wake me up. So my teen probably gets his morning hatred from me.

my year 7 dc gets themselves up with own alarm, downstairs and makes their own breakfast and off to school on public transport alone. Dc quite likes school though so is happy to get up and go and has 100% attendance so far. I was the total opposite at the same age!

No, normally has to be woken up and coaxed to actually get up. Will dress self but then has to be chivvied along to wash, clean teeth etc
But he doesn’t like school anyway so wouldn’t go without persuasion. Gets dropped off in car as school is rural. Expecting him to take more responsibility next school year when in secondary and can get to school under own steam and deal with consequences if late.

My eldest did. My youngest no.

Even now the youngest is on minutes. The oldest is up and ready at least 45 minutes before leaving the house

At a village school a drive away so doesn’t get to school on her own, but Y6 DD sets her own alarm, gets breakfast, brushes teeth and hair and gets dressed and bag ready (complete with essential snacks for after school club, apparently) by the designated time. I’m up and getting ready for work so will see her during this time and give a five minute warning but it’s not really needed, more of a check-in.

I read this as 6 year old not year 6 and wondered why my son wasn’t walking to school alone yet! Thank god I misread it!!

Oh thank goodness you said that, I was beginning to feel like the only one
who had children who needed endless nagging to get up ….. which in my experience is entirely normal 🤣

DS is 6, I get his uniform out the night before and hang it on his radiator, he gets up in the morning comes down for breakfast, he doesn't make his own because we're eating together and he tends to have porridge, if he's having overnight oats he gets his from the fridge, he'll then go up and get himself dressed, he brushes his hair, I brush his teeth because I don't trust him to do it properly at his age, he then comes down fills his water bottle, puts shoes, coat etc on but one of us obviously takes him in. I do sometimes find him reading in his bedroom so I do need to keep an eye on him. He's more of a morning person than I am!

My six year old will wake himself up, brush his teeth and get dressed for school (clothes laid out by me the night before.) He'll usually help himself to some fruit from the fruit bowl and get his own cup of water, but I will make his "proper" breakfast for him.

I wake my year 5 DSS as I go in to get his three year old sister from her room first, and I’m pretty sure if he had an alarm clock he’d either ignore it or smash it depending on how loud it was. He otherwise gets himself and his things ready for school including any items for clubs or PE etc. He has ADHD so it took a while to get going with it but I wake him up nearly an hour before we are due to leave which helps.

No, my eldest DD is year 9 and she’s been getting herself up and to the bus stop since start of year 7. Youngest is year 5 and I still wake her up and make her breakfast but she’ll get herself dressed etc and be ready on time. Will be working on getting herself up next year