How to get a teenager out of bed?

[lemonmousse]

Does anyone else have this conversation or a variation of it?

Me: "DS - it's 6.20"
DS: "Yeah - I know"
Me: "It's 6.30"
DS: "Yeah I know"
Me: "IT'S 6.40!"
DS: "I KNOW - STOP HASSLING ME!"
Me: "It's 6.50 - you'll miss the bus" (it goes at 7.10)
DS: "It's OK - I'll get the next one"

Next bus goes at 7.40 so I have a break and resume shouting at 7.10

Guess what? HE KNOWS!

(repeat above conversation several times)

By 8.30 I am stomping round like an angry Yeti - I am ready to leave for work and he has stirred himself into the shower having already missed 3 buses and is shouting "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME?"

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I now discover that he rang his uncle to give him a lift because "Mam didn't get me up on time"!!!!!!

Tell me it's no longer illegal to beat your teenager with a big stick?

I don't get my 18 year old up..its his call really if hes late for college

Ring his mobile (make sure its out of his reach so he has to get up to answer it/see who it is
My nephew is 17 and is very attached to his phone!

My DS is much younger (8), but I get him out of bed by sending our dog into his room. The dog jumps all over him and I won't call him away until I know DS is going to get up!

Thanks everyone - some great tips there - especially the doorbell considering he's moving up to the attic room shortly that might be just what's needed - save me an extra flight of stairs!

Believe it or not since I posted that last week he's been up on time for the bus every day since! Maybe he's a secret MNer and lives in fear of what I might do.

We're 10 miles away from school and no regular bus, so if dd2 doesn't wake up it messes it all up. Just checked her messages after 11pm on her mob account and taken away her phone. She's not happy.

I hate hate hate mornings so much I could end up in therapy. Shit starts tomorrow.

Our mornings are interesting too. Got sick of the nagging so invested in alarm clock with snooze function; I set this to go off every five minutes once I've woken her. Also find things to ask her, like what she wants for breakfast - helps ease her in to the land of the living!