Helppppp pleaseeeeeee

[onedayiwilllaugh]

My 7 year old has got into a habit of waking up around 5am every morning 😩
But not only that as soon as he’s awake he’s begging for breakfast, like literally if I don’t get up he keeps repeating it until I get up 😂
He goes to bed at about half 8-9, started giving him supper to see if that helped but nooooooo 😅
He used to wake up about 7-8 but now it’s been like routine for about 3 weeks of waking up at this time, feel like I’ve got a baby again 😴

He’s has over 12 hours sleep, he wants to play 😂

If he goes to bed at 9am and wakes up at 5am he's having 8 hours 😂 x

9pm sorry 😂😅

12 hours @Toomanygerbils? How do you work that out?

Can you leave a snack in their room so you don’t have to get up? A banana or bread and butter?

Tell him to put the telly on.

We still use a gro clock with our 7 year old if he wakes before an acceptable time he knows he’s to stay in his room and read or play quietly

He's absolutely old enough to a) tell time b) know what time is reasonable to wake up and c) do as he's told - I'd make him stay quietly in his room until wakeup time (whenever that is for you) and enact consequences if he doesnt.

That is what he used to do, he used to wake up and sit next to me in bed on his tablet but now it's just straight away telling me to get up, I even started leaving cereal in a bowl and covering it and he would put his own milk on, but now he has to have toast and cereal is not acceptable!
I think it's more a behaviour thing of knowing that if he sits tickling my feet, making silly noises and repeating get up, he will get what he wants 🤦🏼‍♀️
But how do I stop him doing that because no matter how many times I tell him it's basically still the middle of night and absolutely not breakfast time he will do these really annoying habits for hours if he has to! 😩

@user1480880826 I've just read your message again, it could actually be a good idea, with the cereal not being good enough he may be happy if I left him bread and butter instead 🤔 thank you for the idea will try that for tomorrow morning

I would absolutely not stand for him coming in and f*cking about with you in the wee hours - that would 100% be a case of "stop that right now, go back to your room and stay there til Xam, or (insert punishment here)" and then actually following through with that.

He's 7, not 3, letting him know that he can just annoy you until you give in will do him no favours whatsoever and likely turn him into a highly irritating, unmanageable teen.

I think it's more a behaviour thing of knowing that if he sits tickling my feet, making silly noises and repeating get up, he will get what he wants

This would drive me bonkers! Agree that he's old enough to have consequences for that kind of behaviour. I'd be marching him straight back to his room and not giving him breakfast till a more suitable time. You need to be consistent. He knows that if he annoys you, you will get up and make his breakfast. What needs to happen is that when he annoys you, he is returned silently to his room however many times it takes.

And yes, nip this in a bud or your annoying 7yo who just keeps demanding 'get up, get up, get up' will become an even more annoying teenager with even more demands. He doesn't get to tell you what to do or command you.

Believe it or not all I did was have a nice calm word with him before bed last night I said to him that I've been speaking to some other mums to see if they know why you keep waking up so early and they said that your 7 and at that age you should know what time your supposed to wake up so from now on if it's dark it's not time to get up and if it's light we can get up and he's woke up at half 7 today for the first time in a good while 🙌🏼

Brilliant! 7 truly is the "age of reason"

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It really is! I even said at half 7 you have cereal waiting in the kitchen ready for milk and he said it's ok I'll just chill for a bit 😮😂
He has just said though will you tell them mums that I've done good today 😂 I feel a bit mean now 🙈

Nahhh don't feel mean, it takes a village, even an online one! And holding himself accountable to others is a good skill to learn early. Sounds like you've got a decent bloke in the making there @onedayiwilllaugh

Aww thank you so much 😊

Excellent news. Get yourself a groclock before the clocks change and we get very light mornings again though!