What time do your kids wake up to open presents?

[Newdad19]

And what age are they?

We have been fortunate with our two boys so far that they have always slept until 8am but have heard of some people up at 4 in the morning.

What time do you expect your DC to awake? Do you make them wait until a certain time or go with it!? 🎅

Dd is 7am. She rarely makes it past 5.30am on a normal day so I'm expecting horrifically early on Xmas day.

Our daughter once woke up around the age of 3 at just before 3am. Her excitement lasted about 5 minutes before she crashed out, sound asleep, curled under the tree like a cat.

I think she just wanted reassure herself that Santa has been!

Usually, mine woke up around 8am as normal for the holidays. Taking them to 2 church services on Christmas Eve (singing in the church choir at the Nativity service Midnight Mass when they were 6&10) really helped!

I once heard them tiptoeing downstairs as quietly as a herd of wildebeest around 4 am, followed by a good deal of excited squeaking and loud SHHHing for about half an hour, then silence. They were all asleep on the cold, hard wood floor when I got up at 7.

These days they have to be woken around 10.

My kids will probobly get up at 10. They like a lie in

My dc wake about 7 these days, which is nice after years of 5.30 starts.

Our rule is "if it is before 6am then go back to sleep".

5:30 they’ll be twitching here. Usually drag it out to 6 or 7

My daughter doesn't get out of bed before 7, the has a clock and knows she can read in bed until then if she wakes earlier. Christmas day won't be any different, but she is not old enough to know why it would be! She is 4.

Mine usually emerges from her room on weekends and non-school days around 8am and has never really been much earlier on Christmas Day. I usually wake up around 6 and wish she'd hurry up

Mine are teens now but we have always had it that they can open stocking presents as soon as they wake but tree presents (the majority) we open together in the afternoon.

I’d hate them to just open everything without us there. The fun (for us) is in doing it together and taking turns to open things rather than having a mad scramble.

So they used to wake up early and open their stockings in bed and then often go back to sleep for a bit.

DD (9 yo) will probably be up horrifically early (think it was 2.30am last year!) BUT she knows not to disturb us until 7am!

DP and I are always the ones dancing around the kitchen wondering if we can go wake DSS up yet

To be fair, he's 15 now, but it's been the same since we first met when he was 10.

It's always gone 7 when DC have woke up, they're 10 and 9 now and I usually get them up at around 9am if they haven't woken themselves.

I have never done a stocking in her bedroom, which I think helps. If she had got up before 6.30/7 she would have been told to go back to bed, anything earlier would not have been an acceptable time to be up for the day. She's a teenager now, so last year woke up about 1pm.

Always tell DD not before 0630 but then I hear her downstairs and she creeps up and asks whether she can come in at around 0500 - 0530 and I just let her because its Christmas and she is excited and I want to drink that excitement up before she gets to an age she nolonger cares.

We do stockings in our bed with a cuppa and keep it going for as long as possible.

She is 9.

Mine always wake up 6.30-7am whether it's school, holiday, Christmas day, they've been up til midnight the night before

My eldest is 11 now though and he's the one who wakes at 6.30, so I'm hoping he might discover the joy of a lie-in soon?

They bring their stockings in to our bed on Christmas morning though so we can watch them open them and the rest of the presents don't get opened til after breakfast.

When mine were little they used to have stockings with mini gifts at the end of their beds Christmas morning. We told them not to wake us or go downstairs till 6.30. The stocking would contain something to play with, a little teddy and some chocolate. The one who was up first would take their stocking into their sibling's room and they would open them together, then snuggle in with each other till 6.30. They never open main presents til after breakfast when dh is back from sorting the livestock.

The earliest we let them get up is 6.30am. The youngest is 9 now and is planning on staying up all night to catch santa or mum putting the stockings out so he'll either be awake or we'll have to wake him up!

My boys are 7and 4 I expect to be woken up at 7.35 as usual. No way will I get a lie in but they seem to have an internal clock that wakes them at7.35 no matter what.

Mine usually wake up around 7 but sometimes it's earlier. They're not allowed downstairs though until after 7 and they have to have breakfast before we do presents.

I am dreading it this year. DS2 (3) keeps waking up at 6 full of excitement just for his advent calendar :o :o :o

DS1 always slept in!!

We still use a gro clock to tell them when they are allowed to get up, usually 6.45 so will prob be similar. Do same as pp though and have stockings on their doors so they have entertainment, they’re allowed to open them without us.

The Gro clock is completely overridden by excitement here.

Never before 7am - always one to be woken up rather than being the one waking me up. Now a teenager so we aim for being up at 10am so that Xmas dinner isn't the first meal of the day.

Dd 6.40. She comes and gets in our bed and watches a Christmas film with the chocolate from the stocking on her bedroom door. Husband and I have coffees and we wait for DS1 to wake up at 7.30.
DS2 is a new addition this year.

Too fucking early on a normal day..
Dd usually up first and comes to our room to get in with us. This is usually any time from 5am. Sometimes she goes to sleep but most times she tosses and turns and fidgets for an hour then declares she needs the toilet (shes 3)
Eldest ds normally last up these days around 7ish but Christmas morn he will be up at stupid o clock.
Last year i taped Christmas paper over living room door to keep them out and left stockings in their rooms and they sat in dd bed and opened them before coming to our room.
Its not them being up so early its dp then fucks off back to bed after they open their presents leaving me to deal with breakfast etc.