Early risers?

[blondiehip]

My son is 3 and wakes up at 5am every day. He.has ALWAYS woken up at this time. Mostly sleeps through, and goes to bed at 7pm. It doesn't matter if he has a nap or not, goes to bed earlier or later. You name it I've tried it. I have come to accept I have an early riser!

Does anyone else have one? Will uiu join my club?

Hey, yep my youngest is an early riser, shes 5 years old and gets up about 5am every day, sometimes earlier. X

My now 6 year old used to be between 4 and 4.30am. Over the years it has slowly risen to 5am, then a year or so later 5.30am.

Hi!
5.30 is a lie-in in this house.
Thankfully he is now big enough to read the clock, switch on the light at 5.15, and read. And make breakfast for him and his brother at the weekends.

My older 2 were like that - it pays off in the end, as I have the only teens in the world who bounce out of bed at 5:45 to catch a school bus at 6:30am (I know they're not really the only ones in the world, it's handy though!)

It was a pain when I was pregnant with younger siblings though - when pregnant with dc2 dc1 was nearly 2, and I I used to record Mr Tumble and Show Me Show Me on the Freeview box and not let dc1 watch TV in the day so I could put recorded cbeebies on from 5am and doze on the sofa til 6am! To be fair I credit those programmes with dc1's incredibly precocious vocabulary by the time dc2 was born

Dc3 is a night owl by nature, so I think that'll be harder as a teen.

My 7 yearlds are the same although it has recently stretched from 5 to 530am. We're up not kind after during the week anyway and at the weekends they can look after themselves for a bit now. I'm the same, DH is not and he has not coped well with it at all!

Oh yes another positive is that you automatically teach your early riser to tell the time very early in order to set rules about getting up time, giving them smug points at school when they start learning as a class and your child can't remember not being able to tell the time, because it's old hat having learnt age 4

He was up at 5.30 this morning. I feel like a new woman 😂

Hooray for your "lie-in"!

We did manage to wean our early riser off 5am waking eventually, by moving her onaroo clock incredibly slowly - 5 mins a week or so. Needed her to be old enough to understand the expectation to lie in the dark until a certain time though.

Yes my daughter was like that. She is now 6 and wakes between 7am and 8.30am.

Honestly though, when they are teenagers (I have one too) you literally cannot get them up in the mornings, so I hate to say it, I actually prefer (with hindsight!) the early morning wake up - so much less stressful!