Do you wake your Teenagers for School in the morning ?

[LexyLou8]

Hi there, I'm just wondering how many of you still wake your teenagers for school each morning, or how many expect them to set an alarm and wake up and make sure they are off to school on time each day ? I would be interested in your answers please. Thankyou .

ucas exactly the same here,I've pretty much stopped worrying about it now ,he gets the grades when it matters and there's only so much I can do

dd (Yr8) one of us goes in, tells her it's morning, she gets up, ablutions, dressed, breakfast and goes out

ds (Yr11) He has alarm clock. He has alarm on phone. We wake him. We go back in. We shout from downstairs. Other one goes in . We shout from downstairs. We put the light on. We move the quilt. We shout. We scream. We rant. We've tried waking him earlier so he can wake up slowly. We've tried leaving it so he gets an extra 10 mins sleep. We've tried lots of gentle hugs. We've tried the cold wet flannel. We've tried leaving him, and letting him pick up detentions. He is a nightmare to get up.

I don't wake them and haven't done for years, they're both up at 7.30, showered, breakfasted and bags ready by 8.15.
I do chivvy them to get out of the house to catch the bus though.
On mornings of important exams we have a family tradition of special breakfasts. Which sounds like a good idea but they are usually far too nervous to eat the bacon sandwiches.

This has made me feel a lot better, knowing I am not alone. Secret Squirrels my DD spends that amount of time in the bathroom alone!

Ds 1 yes up and ready to catch school bus

Ds2 no always has to be shook awake and catches bus by skin of teeth

Dd3 up with bloody sparrow fart doing her hair

Dd4 lazy as hell, several calls and many threats!

Dd1 (15) has got herself up since she was about ten. Possibly before; years ago, anyway.

DP's son a year older still needs a bath drawing and to be physically persuaded out of bed (never by me, I'm no mug).

Frankly, I can't see him ever growing out of it. He is ruined.

I knock on their door at 7 when I go to wake DD up but that's the extent of it. If DD is on holiday (so I don't have to do school run) and they aren't then they have to rely on their alarms although I do keep an ear open as I'm dozing in bed.

I wake them both up first with a cuddle and good morning kiss, then the 'support' is graded.

DD 9 gets gentle but firm coaxing to get up independently and organise herself, with support reduced gradually.

DS gets one more wake up shake and then I tell him we are leaving the house (which means he has 5 mins to get to the bus stop! )

Like the Norwegian Elkhound idea .

DH does and clucks over her like a Mother hen. Sorry thats mean he's really good at jollying her along. She and I both hate mornings.

However, he's being beaten to it by hyper efficient DD2 (Y6). She sets her alarm gets up and wakes her sister. She goes to school an hour later, but likes to be up dressed and watching TV. She goes mad if she over sleeps and has to rush.

DS (5) gets himself up at about 7 a.m. and heads downstairs. I go into his room and tidy his bed & open his curtains.

I knock on DD2's (12) door as I'm passing. She grunts but gets up eventually. she then spends the next 40 minutes straightening her hair and a further 5 minutes finding her school books and cursing her PE kit for not being where she dumped it left it.

DD1 (17) I leave well alone as I like my head firmly between my shoulders. She gets herself up at 7:30 and does breakfast, ablutions, make up and other vital things in 20 minutes flat.

We leave the house at 7:50 to 8:00 with the kids looking immaculate and me looking like a frazzled dishrag.

It's a few years since I had teens but, as I recall, they had alarm clocks and ten minutes after these went off I went into each room with breakfast and tea. Mainly because I had to drop them at school before work so they HAD to be up or I'd be late.

Not because I was overindulgent, oh no.

Mornings and out the door - stressful bit of the day.

"We leave the house at 7:50 to 8:00 with the kids looking immaculate and me looking like a frazzled dishrag." Love this. Sympathise

My DC are pretty good about this but my DD around 7-8 yrs decided she would refuse to get dressed, especially on my early mornings and went on for about a year! Usually she is a butter wouldn't melt child - house was screaming!

Find they need a bit of gentle coaxing to get on the road. So yes, I check if they are awake.

I wake my son up. I wake my husband up. If I didn't, they would both still be asleep at 9am.

DS is 13 and usually gets himself up as he has to leave the house earlier than me and DD, but if I notice that he's not up when I am, I go and open his curtains, shout wakey wakey and so on.

DD 18 puts on three loud and annoying alarms yet would still sleep through if I didn't help her get up. The problem is that she leaves the house at different times and will, convincingly, say "oh I don't need to get up until 9 today" so I'll go away only for her to wake up properly later, angry that I had been "taken in" by her half-asleep denials earlier and she was late for something important!

DD1, 2 and 3 set alarms for between 6.30 and 7.15 depending on the amount of faffing with their hair, skirt rolling and trying to sneak past me with a full face of makeup they are planning. If I haven't heard movement or seen them come for breakfast food then I go in and drag them up at about 7.40. This only happens really rarely as they all like to spend hours fussing.

DD4 is year 5, so I still go in and check she's up each day. She usually gets up at about 7.15, 7.30 anyway as she likes to watch TV with her breakfast.

The bus comes at 8, and then I drop DD4 at school at 8.30, then onto work for me, so there's no real room for error.

Exexpat, I hope you knock before going into a 13 year old boy's bedroom first thing in the morning!

No.

Not teens yet, but DS12 I chivvy every step of the way, DD10 does everything for herself. I expect them to be the same at age 17+15!

I go into DD (16) to wake up and tell her I'm leaving for work. Her usual reply is, 'I've set my alarm!!!'

This is usual followed by a stressed phone call at work 45mins later to say she's only just woken up and she's going to be late!

I do, because I have to leave before him and I like my shower uninterrupted by a frantic hammering on the door of our only bathroom by someone who needs the loo.

DD (16) has her own alarm, but I employ the 'bellow-from-the-bottom-of-the-stairs' technique until I actually hear her move. She is not really any trouble not like I was at her age

Not any more. I got fed up with being sworn at. But he is very inconsistent - sometimes he can get himself up and out in ten minutes to catch the 730 train he needs to get to college on time. Sometimes he can sleep thru alarm clock, phone alarm, phone calls, and my knocking and shouting and switching light on etc, and is unconscious til afternoon - long after I've gone to work. He's been like this since he was about 14 - he's nearly 17 now, and he's definitely worse since leaving school, fewer college days (only 3 morns a week), having a better social life, parties, a girl friend now... Sometimes I get a bit desperate and try again, but generally I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that he's old enough to take responsibility for getting himself up now, and if he doesn't, there's not much I can do about it :(

yes, i have to wake all 3, middle one has paper round, other two need waking at 10 minute intervals.
it is embarrassing how they all have to run out to the bus every morning.

I wake 13 yoDD up at 6.50 and she gets up as soon as it's 7.