How to stop 5yo getting up so early?

[Purplehonesty]

5yo ds keeps waking the household at anything from 5.30am
He goes to bed about 7.30 after a good supper and sleeps usually all night. He occasionally gets up for the toilet and back to bed.
But he consistently gets up early, wakes his 2yo sister and comes through and wakes us. It is driving me insane!
We have talked about him going for a wee, getting back in bed and reading, got him a tv he can turn on if he wants to, a digital clock so he knows the time, used rewards but nothing is working. He has toys he can play with but he just doesn't seem to get it.
He is tired for school, his sister is a wreck by the afternoon as she can't get back to sleep in the morning and I am starting each day crosser and crosser.
Help! Please!

Oh he has blackout curtains and a his room is warm so it's not being cold or the light waking him!

Oh he has blackout curtains and a his room is warm so it's not being cold or the light waking him!

I don't have any answers but just wanted to let you know you are not alone. My 4 1/2 ds is the same.

I have a 6y/o and she was doing this when she was 4. I bought one of those child clocks and that did wonders. It basically shows by colors when she can get out of bed. I think it was called a Gro-clock.

Friends have had success with gro clock with sticker chart- big reward for however many mornings stay in bed until clock changeS

Thanks. I do have a gro clock but stopped using it when he was around 3 as he wasn't paying any attention to it.
Will dig it out again and try the reward chart in conjunction.
He is going for a sleepover to granny tomorrow with dd. I feel for her....

My nearly 6yo has started getting up anywhere from 6am, before this he was never seen before 7.30am so not sure what has changed over the last few weeks! Just a phase hopefully, was thinking maybe he goes to bed too early as he is in and sleeping by 8pm.

This is going to sound rude though I don't mean to be, but if he had tv & books & clock etc but still wakes up the whole household then it's a matter of discipline imho. You just gotta make it clear what the rules are and police the early morning heavily for a few days by returning him to his bed & telling him to be quiet etc. He is old enough to understand and should be capable of entertaining himself quietly till an acceptable hour. Weather you use bribery or punishment or whatever method is up to you but I think you gotta chat to him and remind him of the rules then lay down the law. That should solve him disrupting everyone, as for him actually sleeping longer I'm not sure if there is an answer.

Victoria I agree with you. We have been over and over it and he just doesn't seem to get it. We have been talking about him staying in his room/bed for about two years now.
I've done rewards, charts, threatened no tv or biscuits, outings etc but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Nothing does.
I heard them chatting at 6.30 today which was better so hopefully we will keep working on it.
I'm not a big fan of punishments it seems wrong to punish him when he is just awake and can't get back to sleep.
I might ask his teacher to have a word, she seems to have more sway than me!!

Is he definitely really tired? Because he is getting ten hours sleep which is an ok amount, lower end of normal but still normal.