Does Anybody Else's Primary/Junior School Age Children Get Up Ridiculously Early ?

[Blessedandgrateful]

My 8yr old and my 6 yr old are currently waking up between 5-6am - does anybody else have this?

I am so exhausted and tearful.

No stories about any DC that sleep until 8-9am - I am strictly looking for some empathy here!

Generally 530-6 for us :( I'm shattered!!

Think it's our own fault though as dd (4) has to be out if bed just after 6 mon - fri as we leave just after 7. Why weekends end up earlier though I have no idea!!

Do they wake you up at that time too?

My 4 year old often wakes up 6-6.30am but isn't allowed to wake us until 7am.

At that age can't you tell them they have to stay in their room reading or quietly playing until the (digital) clock says 7? Or allow them downstairs to watch TV alone? I have used both those strategies successfully.

My 5&6 year old are up between 530 and 7 usually
Although the younger has been having some lie ins

I'm usually already up with dd (18 months) so I don't mind

Yep they do go downstairs but by then I'm wide awake and tbh they bicker a lot so they are up and down stairs coming to me moaning about one another.

My 6yo DS is an early riser, he is allowed to get up and go down stairs after 6am (he has a clock in his room) and he reads/plays with his lego/watches tv. If hungry he will also get himself breakfast. If he wakes before this he must stay in his room & generally reads quietly.

I have a nearly 12 year old that still wakes anywhere between 5.30 and 6.30am.

Maybe the teenage years will see us reach the dizzy heights of 7 o'clock.

Yes, 6am here too. The only way I manage is being in bed by 10pm but that's boring!! I take comfort in the fact that it won't last forever!

Do they share a room or are they in their own rooms? If separate rooms I'd make them stay in there quietly until 7 so they can't bicker.

Do they have separate rooms? If so buy them both a clock and tell them they must play quietly in their own rooms until 6.30am. Offer rewards if they do. That should address the bickering problems.

Both of mine have always been up between 6 and 6.30 and I suspect they are often awake earlier as if DH or I am up earlier then they hear and will get up. Now they are 6 and 8 I make use of it quite often by getting them to do stuff! Homework, exercise (DD1 wants to do a triathlon) or help me with stuff. Now I don't fight it it's much easier, I just get up early too - it's great getting up early, if you remember to go to bed on time the night before! Could you try to adjust your sleeping times?

Hmmm off topic but which Way did the clocks change

Hollie if only life were that black and white!

The clocks go back next week

Tootsie I have fibromyalgia - mornings are my worst times for pain and I get severe sleep disturbance with it so an early start is extremely difficult.

Not sure what you mean Blessed? If they can't tell the time yet then you can get clocks that light up at the right time.

Almost 8yo DS has form for early wake ups. He can tell the time but couldn't care less (he ignored the gro-clock for a year before I sold it). I gave up on bribes, rewards, tellings off ages ago, it was wasting even more of my energy.

6yo DD tends to keep going until amost 10pm so I struggle with such limited quiet time inbetween them being awake. Last night they woke me 4 times for feeling poorly, toilet trips and wonder when we'll move house. I am not impressed this morning. .

So blessed, yes, it's crap in this house too . I've informed DS he's doing a paper round at 13.

Do you have any other rules at home meglet?

Yes they can both tell the time Hollie - but children like adults aren't robots and life isn't always as simple as just making a "rule".

Meglet yes it's tiring isn't it ... And I'm off to work at 1pm so in need of caffeine infusion .

Some rules are non-negotiable though aren't they? It's not about being a robot, it's just deciding which issues are important and drawing a line.

Here too. And yes of course we have rules at home. Except I've somehow managed to produce children who are capable of thinking for themselves and aren't just robots who do everything without question.

It's knackering isn't it. Fully in the middle of the usual early waking child exhaustion with reception starter tiredness and teething baby mixed in. Have no solutions I'm afraid but lots of sympathy.

Are they brainless robots when they follow any other rule then? Or do they just always do whatever they want?

Wow Hollie, why the aggressive tone? Someone came on a parenting and asked a question and you decided to try and make them feel inadequate. Why? Just why?

O Hollie please leave your judgey comments and stop trying to solve people's difficulties.

Have your kids ever been ill at night?

Had stresses? Or anxieties? Nightmares?

I have a boy that is going through some boy trouble at the moment that he finds new and scary - not that I expect you to understand .