School mornings are impossible with DS6 and something has to change, but I don't know what to try. I feel like we have tried absolutely everything and we are back to square one. Star charts, written morning routine on fridge, waking up earlier.
We wake him at 7am, but he stays in bed and just will not get up. Or he starts reading. The idea is that he should get dressed by 7.30 then come to the breakfast table. Breakfast is meant to finish by 8am then teeth, shoes etc and leave house at 8.20am. But he stalls and stalls - tries to keep reading while getting dressed, which means he just sits there glued to a book half dressed - everything ends up a rush and there's nagging and even sometimes yelling and I hate it, but I don't know how else to get him to do what he needs to do. Have tried being tough and just opening the door at 8.20 when his teeth are unbrushed, no socks on, half eaten breakfast - he just gets upset and ends up rushing all those things.
-isn't motivated by star chart enough any more and just cries when I say he won't get the sticker (again)
-is a major bookworm and will find anything to read to basically just stall, even his baby sisters books, so taking books away doesn't work
-no major problems at school, has great friends he runs off and plays with when we arrive
Any ideas welcome!