Advice son 6 early riser, getting up and putting on tv

[Londonhouse32]

Really struggling with son early rising, he's getting up at around 6am or earlier for years. When he wakes he usually wakes everyone else in the house up by making noise one way or another. He's recently been going downstairs and putting the tv on and playing musuc on YouTube. Struggling on how to manage the early mornings any advice? We've tried a glow clock and just asking him to play in his room with toys/,books but he ends up coming into our room/turning on hall lights etc and wakes us and his sister up

I dont get it.

Why can't he get up at 6 and watch cartoons for an hour?
I'd leave him to it and put his clothes in his room the night before so he can dress amd leave some water and dried cereal in the living room

Is it the noisiness?
If I'd be clear he can only watch cartoons if he is quiet on the stairs/ with doors and tv stays below sound level 10.
If not, tv goes off and he gets to sit in my bedroom bored off his tits until 7. I'd do that until the message landed.
Kids love tv, it's a strong motivator...

And if he runs for half a mile every morning, by the end of a week he’ll be 3.5 miles away and well out of earshot.

I’ll get my coat…

How old? Our boys are 10 & 7 and still get up at 5:30/6. Hoped later today as they didn’t go to bed til 9 last night but no, nothing stops them!

We don’t have inappropriate things on the tv eg YouTube, other than that have just taught them to be considerate. I’ve only just got out of bed now at 9:30.

If your kid is younger then I agree he’d need supervision until about age 5 or 6.

I've got one of those. It got better with age. Slightly.

I think you posted at the wrong time too. Most people posting will have been awake early. Ours used to be by DC1, now it’s the DDog.

We used to have the rule that they could be up but they didn’t come out of their room until 7am.

Have you tried something at to eat before bed that induces sleep?

Is he getting enough exercise and daylight during the day and going to bed late enough?

i would find a volume you’re happy with and show him that it’s not allowed to go above that number when he’s downstairs alone.

I don’t see an issue with him going downstairs to watch tv alone if it means you can get some extra rest.

Just remind him that just because he wants to be awake doesn’t mean other people do so he has to be quiet.

The alternative is having an iPad with headphones in his room.

DS used to wake early. We just had rules about not waking other people. If he was too loud he got told off. He quickly learned to keep it down so that he could watch what he wanted before anyone else got up.

Hide the TV remote!

If my 7 year old wakes up early, we tell him to go downstairs and watch tv. 😂

If it’s the content and the volume, then you need to figure out how to put a block on YouTube (we have removed it from our tv’s to prevent the kids watching whatever kidfluencer shite they try to watch).

Set the volume low. Set consequences for disturbing everyone else, but allow him to get up and do things quietly if he’s awake.

I think at 3 years old, sure try a gro clock, but at 6, this is sort of a normal wake up time that he will likely grow out of.

Why do people here think about getting up at 6 am. is early?
If you have a job where you have to start at 9, prepare the kids and everything, would you not wake up at 6 am?

My children also wake up at 6 during weekends. I either wake with them or put on the tv - the noise isn't bothering me. Yes, I don't sleep deep, but I shouldn't anyway when small children are unsupervised in the house.

I really don't see the problem.

Katherina
3 hours to get out of the house??

I used to do 90 mins to get me and 2 preschoolers out. You need to look at your morning routine! Now the kids are big enough to walk to school alone, I do 50 mins from alarm click to out the door having eaten breakfast.

I’m sharing a room this weekend with my early riser. He was up at 4.50 this morning. He’s 20 now though so gets the necessity to be quiet. Mine is visually impaired and they often have trouble staying asleep. When he was little I would do educational stuff when he woke up then pass out on the sofa while he watched tv. It destroyed me.

This is good advice and similar to what we did.
It saves everyone getting up and gives them independence so it's a win win.
I'd always wake up and hear them go down stairs at that age but that was to do with me being on young child alert rather than them being noisy.
Now they're teens I don't hear them at all.

No. I drop them off at 7.30 so it's only an hour and a half.
I like my slow start and don't see the point rushing when I can just wake up a little bit earlier. I have a coffee, get my children lunch boxes ready, have breakfast, tidy up the kitchen, put makeup on, and so on. There's no way I can get these done in 50 minutes.

If someone wants to sleep longer, that's fine, but I don't see the point of making the children sleep longer - if they want to get up, let them get up or get up with them.

My daughter is 10 and still isn’t allowed downstairs in the morning without us. She used to be an early riser, thankfully not anymore. Especially on school days, I usually have to wake her!
I wonder if your little boy needs a later bedtime? Of course that can backfire and cause him to wake even earlier! Still, it might be worth experimenting with different bedtimes. At that age if my daughter rose early (before 7) she was to close her eyes and try to get back to sleep and if that was impossible she could play quietly in her room or watch her iPad till dad or I were ready to get up. She’s not that interested in the TV and doesn’t have one in her room. Does your LB? I would just let him watch it to be honest.
6 o’clock is most definitely too early but then I’ve never been a morning person!

We got Google plugs for the TVs that we turn off automatically every night, you can either have them turn on at a reasonable hour or tell him he needs to come and ask but not before the clock says 7 (or your choice).

I always treated anything after 6am as an acceptable time. Granted, 7 would have been better, but 6 was the earliest I would allow mine to get up. After about 14, they started sleeping longer naturally. Now 17 and it's hard to get them out of bed!

So, is the problem that he’s waking up early or that he’s waking you up? Or that he watches TV?
You can’t do much about the early wake up but you can set boundaries about the noise or the TV. My 6 year old is an early riser, 6.30am on the dot. He goes to bed at 8.30pm.
He knows he isn’t allowed to wake anyone up unless it’s an emergency. He knows that TV isn’t allowed on school days. He shares a room with his younger brother (who would sleep into oblivion if he could!), so when he wakes up he goes downstairs and draws or plays quietly. He’s into mazes and sticker books at the moment.
We have enforced these boundaries and are non-negotiable. Sometimes he’s cheeky and puts the TV on, but he knows he isn’t allowed so the volume is super low. (I hear him of course but I don’t mind). He only has access to Netflix kids, and he switches it off when he hears us coming down.

Yhe mine are up at 5-6am most days. If it’s 5 they have to either cuddle till 6 or go play in their room quietly till 6. Sometimes when they pick cuddle they’ll actually fall back asleep till 7 (occasionally later) which is a real treat. I get up with them during the week but “mummy can’t get out of bed before 9 on the weekends she will break out in hives” so they’re their father's problem. I was an early riser for most of my childhood and that’s just what my parents did with me.

My boy stopped getting up early in the morning when we said no tv in the morning

6 is usually the normal time for kids to wake up just let him get on with it or go sit downstairs with a blanket on the sofa with him

Conversely, I can’t fathom 6am starts as nobody in my house has ever woken up that early. Everyone is different!

He needs to have the volume on a certain number or wear headphones.

If he can’t follow the rules then take the power lead out of the Tv.
He will soon learn.

I am a very soft parent but even I would be strict on this.
He’s old enough to not be rude and follow the rules.

We only have one TV which is on the wall with the plug hidden behind the TV. We told our son that the electric on the TV only works between these times. Reality, we have a smart plug on the TV which runs on a schedule, or manually selected on the app if needed. Stops him using the TV outside of our agreed times with no drama at all, after all, he can’t argue with the electric company. 😂

My son is an early riser. When he was a toddler it was difficult but once he was 5 or so he knew the rules. He could get a book or play quietly but he absolutely couldn’t wake up anyone else. He can go downstairs and get himself breakfast and watch some (quiet!) telly from 7am. I get up at 6 for work during the week anyway so I’m usually awake but I can’t hear him at all.