Anyone else dreading the early mornings?

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I've been teaching for over 20 years and every holiday I do the same thing - stay up later, have a long lie in. I'm now at the point where I am sleeping til 9am every day, and that's even with going to bed before midnight! Next week I need to start getting up at 6am again

Every time I say I won't do it, but then once I'm on holiday all my good intentions go out the window! I have a teenage who sleeps even later than me so no incentive to get up early unless I have booked something. I am intending to start setting my alarm for 8am every day this week, and then 7am for the beginning of next week, so I can manage 6am by next Thursday.

Has anyone got any other suggestions/ fail proof methods that work? In case you haven't guessed - I am NOT a morning person!

I get really into afternoon naps. Then I go back to school and I feel like saying, "What? You want me to stay awake all day?"

I love a nanna nap! I have one of those alarm clocks with the sunrise which helps a lot as it's a gentle wake up - but I am not looking forward to 6am :(

Same! I needed a siesta after getting up for results day.

I'm exactly the same as you and full of regret every time. I'm just going to go cold turkey and accept I'll be knackered for a week or so!

I'm really not looking forward to getting up at all. And because of staggered starts mine are coming in at 8.30am - I may finish earlier, but that's still getting up, and in and organised 15 minutes earlier than usual every day.

We’re the same here. I’m pulling it back a bit. Going back to work doesn’t stop me napping though -I’ll sometimes have 20 minutes after tea. I learnt the skill as a new mum and it hasn’t left me.

My insomnia has ramped up since March. I'm often still awake at 3am but then I can get up at 9am. I'm dreading it when I have to be up at 6.30 again.

I've been getting up at 7am instead of 6am during the holidays. I go to bed around the same time during term time (between 9 & 10pm) so it's not a problem. I know a lot of kids will struggle. During lockdown when runging families for welfare checks, several of my class were still in bed well past midday .

We have been getting up later too, even 6 year old DS. This week, I am setting my alarm and getting up earlier in preparation for next Tuesday!

Lots of coffee on the first day and wing it. Get an early night the next night and body clock resets quite quickly. I consider 9am start in the holidays to be early and its not unknown for me to sleep to midday (in my 50's and not just out of Uni, just a real night owl).

Hate first day back but having been teaching 25 years i honestly can't remember a first day that I didn't yawn through. I'm usually ok by 2nd or 3rd day.

I bloody love a lie in. Beyond 9am to be fair and I refuse to feel guilty about it. I also have teens who sleep a lot layer than me.
I also love a nana nap.

I just make sure I'm productive in the day to make up for it.

The only downside is that they leave me wide awake late at night hence my posting here at nearly 3am.

I was massively jet lagged on inset last year, not helped by the fact that I was summoned to a meeting with the head at 8am in which he wanted to know if I'd planned it properly.
I have no idea how I got through that day.

Same, I am awake now with neck pains and muscles aches in my legs which is anxiety symptoms for me. I haven't had them all summer so it's back to work related. I've not been getting up until 9am so school at 8am is going to be a nightmare.

I've already replied to this thread but i'm going to be dead on my feet! I know it! Need to force myself NOT to nap after school to help my body clock reset.

I am! I need to be up at 5.30am for school, which is going to be a massive change to the lie ins until 8/9am. It only takes a few days for my body clock to re-set, so I'll just push through those first few days. I suffer from SAD, so the first term is always really grim for me, and really not helped by having a long commute.

Not looking forward to it! Kids are in from Thursday and I have to be up at 6 so think I'll start putting the alarm on from Monday. I've enjoyed my 10am lie ins!

I was aiming to get up at 6am today. Alarm went off. I finally got up at 6.25am so I suppose that's an improvement

I did go running too -does that count

My DP is usually a real early riser so always wakes me with a brew at 6.15 but he's had an operation so his body clock is all over the place.

Dreading it

I've been setting my alarm for 8am but today I went straight back to sleep after turning it off and woke up at 10.45! I know I must have needed the sleep but now I'm even more worried about next week I know from previous experience that by 9am on the first day the tiredness will hit me and by 4pm I'll be buzzing around like a loon (from one extreme to the other). I'm just glad we have two inset days to ease me in before the children are back!

I managed to get up at 6.20 this morning, but I have to leave the house for 6.15 when term gets going

The thought of the early mornings is adding to my already out of control anxiety! My body clock has been loving a good 9 hours sleep getting up at 8.30 but next week it’s back to 6 o clock getty ups. Can’t imagine how I’ll ever heave myself out of bed!

I could have written your post! However, I'm now in my 2nd week back and my body clock has fallen back into school mode.

First 6.30am get up was dreadful, second not so bad as I fell asleep at 8pm the night before due to being beyond knackered. Then it was awful on the third day and by Thursday it clicked into place. I even woke naturally at 7am each morning of the Bank Hol weekend and morning was actually fine.

Grit your teeth and get through the first 3 days, then you'll be fine imo.

I set my alarm for 7 today (not back at school till Thursday) to ease me in gently, but I woke up naturally at 6.15. By 10am I was struggling a bit but then after lunch I had a second wind I'm hoping the rest of the week will be as good!