What morning 'rules' do you have re. getting up time/noise etc?

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DSs are 8 and 6. DS1 always wakes up early (despite us letting him go to bed later), but we say he has to stay in his room and read etc until at least 6.30. DS2 usually hears him and gets up at the same time .
(I'm not convinced that DS1 isn't waking him up deliberately...)

We've previously let them watch a bit of TV, or play on the computer until we get up (at 7 ish weekdays or later at weekends).

But recently they've started making so much noise in the morning, that they're waking us up when they get up. It's mostly DS2 getting more argumentative & shouting/ arguing I think.

We have been warning them that unless they keep quiet, then we will change the 'rules'. But nothing's changed, and we were woken at 6.30 again this morning .

Just wondered what other people do - do you say they have to stay in bedrooms til later, or read, or something?

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Just installed bed guard on DS bed (2yo). Successfully extended sleep from 5:35 till 5:55 in the morning. Groan.

NO TV until FULLY DRESSED. And that does mean your tie as well.

TV OFF for breakfast. Teeth MUST be brushed after breakfast and before more TV.

Breakfast MUST be eaten

Piano practice has to happen at NIGHT. Not during breakfast.

Simple

DD1 was never a really early riser but whenever she did go thro phases of waking early (ie before 7am) we just put her back to bed saying grumpily "its still sleeptime" and ignoring any subsequent crying. I'm well aware how lucky we were/are that she wasn't more persistent.

Once she could read numbers ok we bought her a digital clock and she isn't allowed to come out of he rroom (apart from for a wee of course) until 7 o clock. Now she is 4 and each morning she runs into our room shouting "It says seven on my clock" before running out again and into 18 month old DD2's room. Poor old DD2 is rudely awakened each morning by the light being switched on and a verbal torrent from her older sister. On the plus side they'll play and chat together for quite a while before Dh and I have to haul our lazy arses out of bed.

DS was a 5.30am riser for a while and hineslty I could probably have put him to bed at 4.30am and he would still have been up at half 5. Later bedtime with him just didn't work at all.

Since DH has been working away I have got incredibly lazy in the mornings now, dd is nearly 5 and ds is a kick in the bum off 2. They usually wake around the same time and although they come in and out and blether to me they tend to play about in dd's room or come into bed with me and watch a video so I actually now get to stay in bed until 7 or 8 some days.

This lazy morning and not jumping out of bed at half 5/6 when they wake has actually extended their sleep a bit as well they tend to sleep a bit longer in the mornings now as well even though I have never enforced a stay in bed until I get up policy.
How I would love to do that but DD is THE most stubborn attitude filled 4 year old and in truth I couldn't be buggered with the agro.

I don't really get all this.

If any child is regularly getting up before about 6am (after having slept all night quite peacefully) surely they are being put to bed too early?!??!

Or am I missing something?

Not in either of my childrens cases JG, I tried pushing bedtime back by a fair amount of time but all I got was children who still woke up at the crack of dawn but were really grumpy all day because they were too tired.

I wish it was that simple but if it was there would be less of us tearin g our hair out every day when our toddlers gets up at 5.30.

I second Ineedacleaner, we tried earlier bedtimes and later bedtimes with DD and it didn't make any difference. Thank goodness they grow out of it!