What age did your DC start waking up at a civilised hour?

[MellowBird85]

DS is 22 months and I do count my blessings that he sleeps through as I know many children at this age don’t! I also know young children are naturally early risers but I just want to see some light at the end of the tunnel because I am so sick of getting up at 6am - it’s like being in the army! I’m jealous of people WFH / furloughed who are enjoying lovely, long lie-ins. I’ve never been one to laze about in bed all morning (7:30 - 8am at the latest pre-DS). So can you give me some hope of when I might expect DS to wake up at an acceptable time? I’m assuming people with children get lie-ins at some point?!

We introduced a gro clock around 2 and it was miraculous! She knows that when the stars are out she has to be quiet and go back to sleep. We sometimes hear her playing and singing from 6.30 but she knows not to shout for us until the sun comes up (at 7 or 2.45 at nap time)

My son was always an early riser: 5-5.30am throughout childhood. He got old enough to take care of himself before he slept in any later than that (he's 16 now and is still usually up before 7.30).

It's not a case of when they start to wake up later, it's a case of when they are capable enough to go downstairs and turn on cbeebies by themselves. Then they can get up when they like (within reason i.e not 4.30am!) and I can stay in bed. Even better when they can get a drink and breakfast so around 5 or 6. I have an 11 yr old that is happily up by 6-6.30am most days.

I think it's more about the routine you have - most children cope with clocks changing twice a year so you can shift their sleep times by an hour fairly easily if you are consistent.

What you can't have though, is an early bedtime and a late wake up (and a nap).

It's not so much waking at a reasonable hour, but being able to take themselves downstairs and play quietly until a reasonable hour!

DS2 (9) still wakes around 6am. He's just an early bird. But he just comes downstairs, gets on his iPad and plays games. He also feeds the cat her breakfast, which is a bonus

Mine are 10 now and they still wake up at 545 am. Obviously they can sort themselves out now so it doesn't bother me. They take after me, I am naturally a morning person, but a 630 / 7 am person not before 6!

In our household it wasn’t so much that they got up later but the fact that I could trust them to go down by themselves, make breakfast and not destroy the house. They are 7 and 10 now and I can sleep in but ds 2 still lets me know he is going down.

Between 6-7 most days - so not too early. I'm up at 5 for work and used to that.