6 year old getting up far too early

[blueseamum]

My 6 year old son is getting up at around 5.45/6.30 every morning and we're knackered! His younger brothers get up after 7.00am. I usually get up with him because I don't want him watching 3 hours of T.V. before he goes to school. He also tends to make a racket and wake the others. They all go to bed at about 8.00/8.30 which seems reasonable for his age. Anyone else been through this? How do I get him to stay in bed or try and go back to sleep?

I'm afraid that my 6 year old son has got up at the same time as yours since he was 3!

We have tried absolutely everything from black out blinds, later bed times to even turning the upstairs lights off at the fuse box in the hope he will stay in bed! Like you, I have to get up when he does or he too will end up watching TV until school!

We have also tried to get him to stay in his room if he wakes up, but this has proved impossible too!!

Hello

My 5 year old has been doing this since she was a baby. Like farzak we have tried everything and have accepted she is an early riser.

Our way to deal with it, go to bed earlier yourself to cope with the early mornings! i get loads done before the kids go to school and have a free evening instead!

Sorry if this is not what you want to hear.

Thank you, glad to know I,m not the only one! I guess it'll be early nights for me for a while which isn't such a bad thing. Actually I had a lovely few hours with the boys from early this morning just colouring and chatting, no tv. If I organise myself better the night before I'd like to make the early mornings enjoyable for all of us, make scrambled eggs with them, or pancakes. they love helping me make juice drinks too. I quite fancy the idea of a long leisurely breakfast with them ( even if it is in a very untidy kitchen, i can just tidy after I've dropped the two eldest to montessori and school.) Hey, the early morning cloud is lifting, this could turn out to be a positive thing! Any more thoughts on idyllic early mornings?

I would just tell him he is not allowed to watch TV in the mornings. Unplug and hide the lead if he did not behave. And tell him that the first person up brings Mummy breakfast in bed