Daisy Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I'm just curious. Everyone has such different start times for their homeschooling that I wonder about morning/evening personalities. Poll coming and I'm going to try and keep it simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Evening, and it makes like SO difficult for me :( My energy picks up around 3 p.m.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Night owl. I like to joke that I homeschool because I don't want to wake up early enough to put my kids on the bus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairnmama Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 My life would be soooo much easier if I could sleep till 11 am or later everyday and stay up till 3 or 4 am each night/morning. I am much more productive/energized in the late evening through early morning hours. Unfortunately, that kind of schedule doesn't work with being a single mom and needing to teach classes for my homeschool group for extra money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Very much morning. I start to really drag mid-afternoon. I used to nod off when I read to the kids after lunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I'm a morning person as are four of my five kids. My oldest is a night owl, peaking at 8-10 PM. This makes things difficult. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Night owl. I like to joke that I homeschool because I don't want to wake up early enough to put my kids on the bus! I say it too, but it's not a joke! :lol::lol::lol: Fortunately, neither of my kids wants to get up that early either :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Morning person, but that's relatively new in the past 5 years. Before that, I would be dragged out of bed my the alarm every morning, and was most alert and productive from 10pm - 2 am. Now, I'm naturally awake by 5, no matter what time I go to sleep. 5-7am is my "me" time. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 We are all morning people here though my husband and son can sleep later than my daughter and I. We get up around 5-5:30 in the summer months and closer to 6:30 in the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Now, I'm naturally awake by 5, no matter what time I go to sleep. 5-7am is my "me" time. :001_huh: How did you accomplish this miracle?! I lovelovelove the early mornings, and I'm so happy when I accidentally wake up early, but it's just so hard for me to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 How did you accomplish this miracle?! I lovelovelove the early mornings, and I'm so happy when I accidentally wake up early, but it's just so hard for me to do. I don't know. I don't think I really had anything to do with it. I think it was a defense mechanism. (I DO set the alarm on my phone for 5:30, but I'm generally up before that happens - sometimes long enough that the alarm goes off and scares me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in the UP of MI Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Everyone in my family is a morning person. We all have a big slump in energy and mood in the afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 We're all night owls here except for dh, but he's not by choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfatherslily Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I'm not a fan of actually getting up in the morning, but once I do, I wake up easily and have the most energy in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samba Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I've always been a morning person and ds9 is the same...up early no.matter.what. DH has always been a nightowl and dd11 is starting to move in that direction. :glare: It's throwing a wrench in my school schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I started dancing at 3. At 12, I started doing theatre and became a night owl. I would go to school at 8, be home at 3:00, take a nap or eat a snack, maybe do homework, then go to dance/theatre from 4:30ish until 10pm sometimes...then I would do homework. When I got to college, I never started class before 9 am, 11 if I could have my choice! I only had a regular schedule job for 6 months...then I switched to teaching dance completely....I have been a mess every since. DH is also a night owl. He was homeschooled from 1st grade on and did theatre. Our kids take after us. DS has started waking up at 8:30 most days. Once a week he sleeps until 10 or 11. I like to start school work by 9am if we can. That way we are done by 11am and can relax, play, run errands before we start our evening activities. On days DH works, our family time starts with dinner at 9ish and ends with bed time at 11ish. It works for us, but some find us a little crazy! (mainly my parents) It does make it hard to schedule daytime playdates during the week. We are ready to play while my friends kids are ready for naptime. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I am a morning person. But since we have gotten our puppy (4 months old) I am a sleep deprived morning person. In fact, I get about 4 hours a sleep a night. :confused: My son used to be a morning person but now that puberty has begun he needs to sleep to 8-9 in the morning before I wake him (any earlier and I can expect to get very little school done). My daughter since birth has been a night person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I say it too, but it's not a joke! :lol::lol::lol: Fortunately, neither of my kids wants to get up that early either :tongue_smilie: That is why I tried to convince dh to let me pull my oldest 1/2 way through the year. He made me wait until summer.:glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I am a morning person and dh is an evening person...sometimes the difference is great and sometimes it is awful.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I love it when the house is quiet at night. Dh and I have time to talk, I can read, I can look at these precious little sleeping cherubs. Mornings are coffee time. Once the caffine kicks in around lunch or so it would seem horrible to go to sleep right at dusk just as momentum starts for the day.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Night owl here. I feel most alive after dinner until midnight or later. Usually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3peasinapod Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Definite morning person. So much so that I should probably have some coffee every day around 6 pm so that I won't be irritated at those around me. :001_huh: I shut off around 6 pm, and some of my family won't even call me after that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margo out of lurking Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I chose Other. I stay up late at night easily but I prefer the mornings. I'm one of those happy people you sometimes would like to slap. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Definitely morning. I cycle through phases of how early of a morning person I am, but I go through long periods of waking up at 5:30 and will then shift to 6:30 or 7:00. The early part of the day is when I have the most energy. I stay up fairly late -- 11:00 -- but I am pretty tired and often not too productive by the time I've finished preparing dinner. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginevra Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) For the longest time, I did not think I was a morning person, because my mother is The Queen of Morning People. She would come into my room and chirp "Good Morning!!!" when she's been up since 5:00am. I always wondered why on earth she would get up at 5 when she did not "have" to. She would say, "I want to see your Dad before he goes to work." I do the same thing, except I get up around 6:15. I want to spend an hour or so having coffee with dh and watching the news and weather. On the rare occasion I fail to get up and he goes off to work unseen, I feel so lost. It's a good thing, though, that he doesn't leave for work as early as my dad did! Edited July 7, 2011 by Quill Sounded like I was talking about having coffee with my dad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I say it too, but it's not a joke! :lol::lol::lol: Fortunately, neither of my kids wants to get up that early either :tongue_smilie: :iagree::iagree: This is us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodhaven Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I used to be a morning person, but dh since dh is a night owl, I changed just so I could see him. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PentecostalMom Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I am a night owl and a morning person, is that crazy?? I like to get up early, get the schoolwork and housecleaning done, then have the rest of my day to do what I want. However, I also stay up late after dc and dh are asleep and do things I cannot do with them around, or just veg. I only need about five hours of sleep, if that much. It's herediatary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Mid-day. I get a tremendous amount of work done between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Then I relax with a glass of wine and take my time making dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna A. Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Morning person, but that's only because I'm reformed. A reformed night owl, that is. :lol: Seriously, I was a night owl my entire 40-some years of life until about two years ago. One day it dawned on me that we can't possibly get everything done that we need to get done in a day's time unless we get our hineys out of bed in the morning. Combine that with the fact that while dh was gone to Ft. Benning for 8 months, I actually missed taking him to the bus at 6 a.m. :tongue_smilie: That's when I knew I'd been transformed. :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8circles Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I voted neither but I don't mean afternoon. I don't think I'm consistently better in the morning or at night. It all depends on the amount of sleep I've been getting, the amount of caffiene I've had to drink, & the number or arguments I've had to mediate lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kchara Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Night owl. I have tried and tried and tried to get up early, to reset my clock, just doesn't work. I get a second wind around 9 pm, no matter how little sleep I've gotten the night before or during the day. I totally give up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I said Morning Person only because I've been trained to get up early every day for work (I have had to be at work at either 7am or 7:30am every day for years). Before that I was a Night Owl. I think if I were to no longer have to get up by a certain time I'd stay up a lot later, but my natural clock is set to wake up at 10am, or it used to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Sorry, Daisy, but I'm an "other." If I had my druthers, I'd stay up late like a night owl, get up early with the kids and be super productive in the morning like a morning person and then nap in the afternoon to make up for it. In fact, I do just that sometimes. Other times, it doesn't work out that way. I'm not a super early riser - 7:30 is my start time (unlike my up at the crack of dawn kids), and I can sleep late or go to bed early if need be, but that's my natural cycle, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Definite night owl. It's rare that I am asleep before 3:00am. Most nights I sleep about 6 to 7 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I wonder how much is conditioned. I had to get up early for school when I was a kid- had to leave home at 6.45 am. I would even go jogging before that too. And my dad was up early to get to work before the traffic. Mum would sleep in and i would take her a cup of coffee if she was awake before I left home. I spent most of my childhood having to get up early to get to school. When I could sleep in, I did. Then as an adult I went through times of sleeping in and staying up late, before kids. Once I had kids, sleep became a precious commodity and going to bed early just seemed sensible. I do like mornings. But I wonder if I am a "morning person" through nature or nurture. I wonder if its just habit, life circumstance, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Night owl, parenting one just like me .... and one who isn't. No matter how hard I tried to bend him that way :blush:! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robyn Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I actually wrote a blog post about this recently. I am not a morning person and I never have been. Then again, I'm not really a night owl either. It takes me a long time to get moving in the morning and I am ready for bed at night by 10 or 11. I'm at my best midday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarreymere Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm a night owl, but I get up with DH to make him breakfast and since I'm up I figure I might as well share the misery. DH is maddeningly perky in the morning. The DC are grumpy but they wake up when they hear us (small house) and they come out to investigate breakfast. I need a machine that will make me one of those frozen mocha coffee drinks in the morning. Regular hot coffee is not working right now. I suppose I could freeze some coffee in ice cube trays and use the blender in the morning.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm a mid-day person. I can get up early, just don't talk to me for at least an hour. My most productive times are 9am to 3pm. My internal clocks shuts down at 10pm, has since I was a kid. Seriously, it's like 10:20 here and my body is begging me to go to bed. Dh is a morning person :ack2:, ds is night owl. We started school at 10:30 this year, that was the earliest we've done since early elementary. Ds is not a morning person, so we mix well together. Prek and K in private school were absolute torture for ds and me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamatohaleybug Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Night owl. I like to joke that I homeschool because I don't want to wake up early enough to put my kids on the bus! This is me! It's after midnight and I'll still be going strong for a while tonight. 7:30 a.m. start time for PS almost did me in. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewellsmommy Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Well, after midnight and here i am. Need I say more :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbemom Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Definitely a night person. Unfortunately, my DD has always been a morning person. As an infant, she was up at 5am every day! As she got older, she started sleeping in until now, at age 6, she usually gets up between 6-6:30am no matter what time she goes to bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scmama Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Night owl...as a teen and now as a mom. Not always a good thing, but what can I do?! I've tried resetting my body clock, but it doesn't work. I blame the genes, my dad is the same way. However, my mother says I'm terrible because I'm not a morning person, the one who's perky and is up before her children! Like she is! HA! I just don't take after her. This is a ongoing argument between her and me. My daughter is a morning person, up and at it with the sun. My oldest and youngest, boys, are just like their mama, hard to put to bed, and hard to wake in the morning. Yep, my house is fun!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Morning person, my 3 yr old appears to be a morning person too, but my 7yr old is an evening person which makes it hard to get started in the morning. By the time she gets mentally going I am usually past my peak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Morning person. I get the most done between 6 and 8 am. Both of my kids seem to be early morning people also, although the youngest seems like he might be of a night owl as he gets older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter's Moon Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I voted "morning person". Usually I would vote "night owl" without thinking, but I've recently realized that all the times I'm up late (past 11) is when I force my body to. I cannot focus on any work after 8, I just can't. When I get up early though, my focus is amazing. When I was younger, I was naturally up by 5:30 or 6:00. My mom used to force me to stay awake at night (only until 7 or 8) because sometimes by 5 I was begging to go to sleep. Now, I usually go to bed about 10:30 or 11:00 and naturally wake about 6:30-7:30. Winter, it's generally 8:00-8:30. I'd love to eventually wake earlier :001_smile: Getting out of bed is torture, but once I'm up, I don't feel sleep anymore. My body feels a bit tired, but I can no longer go back to sleep if I do anything more than walk to the bathroom and back. If someone stops me on the way to talk or something distracts me, I can't go back to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm a never these days! Was always a morning person. Became also a night person after kids. Now I'm so exhausted that, really, I'm a never. I'm working on a secret plan to change it by being surreptitiously on strike all this week and next. I even had 2 naps yesterady. ;) Problem is, I seem more tired than ever! I figure it is just the bottoming out phase, and then I'll come back to life. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariannNOVA Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Night Owl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I voted other (sorry). It all depends how much sleep I am able to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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