Do you wake your child up in the morning?

[Diana B]

I'm making this a poll, because everyone loves polls. LOL

 

But I expect that my poll options will not meet everyone's needs.

 

Please answer based on what you do on 'school days'.

 

ETA: The difference between #1 & #2 would be:

#1 - Schedule dictates the child MUST be up by 7am.

#2 - You wake up the child quite a bit later when they REALLY should have been up already. (Oh, it's 11am - I need to wake that kid up!)

Edited October 5, 2011 by djbartch
Clarification

[Parrothead]

I try to get both dd and myself out of bed by 8a.

[Amy loves Bud]

My oldest gets up to an alarm for PS. I do get up when he does, just because I hate the idea of him being alone in the morning while everyone else sleeps. Maybe once every two weeks he sleeps through his alarm so I wake him up then.

 

I let the 11 year old sleep as late as she wants unless we have somewhere to go and need to get school done by a certain time.

 

I encourage the 4 year old sleep as long as she can.:001_smile:

[Ellie]

I let the little darlings sleep.

 

I guess if they'd slept past, oh, 8:30 I'd have thrown them out of bed, but they were usually up by 8. That was good for me. :)

[lorrainejmc]

They wake me.:001_huh:

[KristinaBreece]

Best advice I ever got as a new mom:

 

Don't wake a sleeping child.

 

My 4-y-o is awake by 7 :30, or I know something's wrong. DD, OTOH, would (and does) sleep until 10 AM. I don't wake her unless we HAVE to be somewhere earlier than noon.

 

ETA: My early riser also voluntarily goes to bed at 8:00. Every. Single. Night. He has a set internal clock. I think DD is wired more like Mama. A night owl.

[chepyl]

I let them sleep unless we need to be somewhere. DS is up by 8:30 and DD by 10.

[mommyrooch]

If mine aren't up on their own by 8:00 am I wake them up.

[ashfern]

I chose other. The youngest wakes me almost every day. :glare: Sometimes it's 5, most of the time it's 6, rarely it's 7.

[MariannNOVA]

Good question.

 

They wake themselves -- I would let them sleep till noon if it meant peace and quiet and we didn't have to be anyplace.

[pdalley]

I only wake them if we have an appointment. It has seriously cut down on teen angst around here to let him wake on his own. He can get up if he needs to - setting his own alarm. So I know he has the ability.

[mommyagain]

I wish mine would sleep late enough that I had to wake them!!!! My little guys are usually up between 5:30 and 6:00.

[Diana B]

OK, so those of you that let your child sleep until they wake up (and it's not 6 or 7 in the morning) do you just plan on your school schedule starting some time after they get up?

[Caitilin]

I rarely have to wake my boys--but my girls are another story altogether! On co-op mornings, however, I have to awaken everyone...:glare:

[H.S. Burrow]

I try to get both dd and myself out of bed by 8a.

 

 

:iagree:

[PinkInTheBlue]

You know, I voted other but I guess I could have fit into the "wake them up by a certain time if they aren't already up" type category. We don't start the day at 6:30am sharp every day because trouble sleeping isn't very rare in our house. So, if they sleep in by themselves until about 8:30, I let them. By then I wake them up.

[Ewe Mama]

3 of my 5 are up by 6:15 on thir own. Our eldest is usually up by 7:00 at the latest. Our youngest son is known as 5 o'clock Charlie for a very good reason. :glare: I wish I had to wake them up!

[Farrar]

My children have internal alarms that don't allow them to sleep past 6am. I sometimes wonder if they've been replaced by robots because they awake so precisely.

[Splinter]

I still have two in public school, so I wake them up at 7:30. I wake my oldest up at 8 so he can walk them to the bus stop, but I let my youngest sleep until he wakes up on his own, usually around 9.

[Joules]

Ds (14yo) is an early bird. He's up around 4:00 every morning. I am a morning person, but consider 6:00 morning. Ds has our breakfast cooked and ready by 6:00. He started doing this when I was sick a few months back. If we aren't up by then he wakes us (though dh and I did call for a cease and desist on Sundays.)

 

And, yes, he is the most awesome teen boy ever!

[jennsmile]

In all fairness I used to let them sleep. Now I wake them each day before Dad leaves for scripture study and so that I can get school done before noon with lots of breaks.

[curlygirlzx2]

DD almost always wakes up on her own unless it's been a rough night.

[Mommy22alyns]

On co-op days, we wake the girls up. Every other day, they just wake up on their own.

[Night Elf]

I wake them up at one specific time, although I'll confess it's not a do-or-die situation. I sit and talk with them while they wake up. If they cannot even open their eyes to acknowledge my presence, I try again 30 minutes later. I have all teens and their nights vary. I like to have everyone out of bed by 1:00pm. Yes, we are NOT morning people. :)

[Jenny in Florida]

My daughter is on her own schedule, but usually sets her alarm for 9:00.

 

My son is supposed to be up at 7:30. He has an alarm, which he sleeps through pretty much every morning. Sometimes, he "forgets" to set it.

 

I have a hard time forcing myself to wake him up, since I enjoy the alone time in the morning. But I wake him at 9:00 if he doesn't stir before then.

[Virg]

I can barely wake up to an alarm so it isn't fair to make them wait on me :lol: Really though, it sometimes goes off for ten minutes before I wake up to it!

[MissKNG]

My kiddos wake up themselves...around 5:30am...every morning.

[greenvneck]

I voted Other because *I* don't wake them up. If they wake up before me, they come downstairs and I eventually hear them. If they are still asleep when dh leaves for work (usually between 9-9:30), he wakes them so that they can hug him in the garage (that's their routine, if it deviates there are tears). Sometimes they want to go back to bed and I let them, sometimes I have to tell them they need to get dressed because we have a lot of stuff to do. They are up pretty late so that they can have Daddy time; he's the one who puts them to bed, reading to them for an hour or so. On tae kwon do nights (2-3x/week) it's after 9:00 before he even gets home, so they are usually just falling asleep between 10:30-11:00.

 

If we didn't homeschool, they would never get to see their Dad! One of the boys doesn't get home until 8:15 from tae kwon do, 3x/week, so that would make for very tired children on a school morning!

 

One of the teens is at college, the other is responsible for her own schedule.

[FrogMom5]

I voted other. I wake my teen b/c he's a teen and would sleep through 10 alarms. My younger children are awake early and on their own.

Denise

[ChristusG]

My philosophy? Never wake a sleeping child. If they sleep later than I do (which is rare at the moment because my pregnant self is exhausted) then I get up and do some chores before the wake up.

[jillian]

we let dd sleep till she gets up but she's only 3.5 lol. she's usually up sometime between 7 and 8

[sewingmama]

All my kids are 5 and under - wake them at your peril :D My DS goes to the afternoon session of Pre-K for a reason :001_smile:

 

All of them are usually awake by 8.30 am - we don't start school till 10am - so it works.

 

If any of them sleep later then 8.30 I assume they might be sick and let them sleep (if they are still sleeping at 10am I make a doctors appointment).

Edited October 6, 2011 by sewingmama

[Daisy]

They usually get up on there own but if they are still in bed by 7am, I get them up.

[tkdkidsmom]

I let them wake up by themselves, unless we have somewhere to be. DS is an early riser usually up by 7. My DD is a sleepyhead princess and will sleep til 9 or 9:30. She's 5, so the more sleep the better the day will be :001_smile:

[2cents]

I've always awakened them at a specific time. If they sleep too late we won't get our work done at a reasonable hour and they also get headaches if they sleep too late. I really don't have to worry too much about them getting up after I tell them. One of our cats goes in and starts nipping them and pulling on their hair. That cat is my furry enforcer. :D

[cdrumm4448]

I am up by 5:00 and I wake the kids up between 6:30 and 7:00. I tried letting them sleep in and wake up on their own, but we never finished school each day. So, now they get up, eat breakfast and become alert, then we begin with independent work while I get more stuff done. I work with DD, then DS while they do more independent work. Then, we get our group stuff done.

[LaxMom]

Yes. We wake them at 7 for breakfast. At least one of them is usually up before then, though. (it can be any of the three, any given day, though Holden is usually more inclined to wake early than the other two)

[amo_mea_filiis.]

I voted other. It is very that ds is not up within minutes of me getting up. Dd is another story!

[JaniceO]

I chose other. My oldest son attends PS and he sets his alarm to wake up. I *usually* wake up a short time after him just to make sure he's getting around.

 

I wake up the other kids though. I think they'd probably sleep through an alarm clock, lol.

[JudoMom]

Last year we started waking the older 4 at 7:30 for Bible Study before dh goes to work (the youngest sleeps until he gets up). Until then I often let them sleep until they woke up, or I woke them up by 9ish. Even if we didn't do Bible Study in the morning, we're now at a stage where at least the older 3 need to be up at 7:30 so we can start school by 8 or 8:30.

[Mommyof4ks]

They wake me.:001_huh:

 

:iagree::glare: Not a good thing.

[Munchkins_mama]

I wake them up all up 7:30 but it is a daily battle so I'm rethinking my plan. The little two get up on their own some days by 7:30and somedays sleep till 8:30ish, but the 10yo will sleep till 8:30-9. She is a night owl too.

[BarbecueMom]

Younger one gets up at 6:30. The 3-year-old gets up anywhere from 6:30-7:30am. If I can get out of bed, I read to my little guy on the couch before the other gets up. Lately, they both get up before me, get apples (and a cheese block :glare:) out of the fridge, and start breakfast before I can even find my glasses.

 

I'm not a morning person. I worked 2nd/3rd shift before kids. Getting up before 7:00 every day is killing me.

[jenn-]

The poll should have been multiple choice. The 3 boys share a room and are usually up between 630-7. They have all been trained to come out only to go potty and then to return to their room for "quiet time". That's code for, don't wake Mom. Some days I am lucky and I don't wake up to some screaming kid because this one took that ones stuff, some days I am not so lucky. DD on the other hand has an alarm clock set for 7am. Recently she has gotten up before her alarm with the intent of reading before having to get up. More power to her, just don't wake me up and get your school work started on time.

[Crissy]

I wake up at 7.

The 17yo is usually already up, and I wake the 12yo by 7:30.

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

I wake my boys up at a specific time, but that is a recent development in our household. Baby sleeps as long as she needs to.

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

3 of my 5 are up by 6:15 on thir own. Our eldest is usually up by 7:00 at the latest. Our youngest son is known as 5 o'clock Charlie for a very good reason. :glare: I wish I had to wake them up!

 

I love that book by Marguerite Henry. :)

[Tarreymere]

Mine all get up when DH gets up to get ready for work. They stumble out to the living room and moan. DH is unbearably cheerful and loves antagonizing them. Then they scream. Delightful........:glare:

[QuirkyKapers]

They set the alarm. It is a ploy really. All electronics are off until after dinner starting at 8am. If they get up before than, well, they are in electronic heaven.

[Harriet Vane]

Dh wakes the kids up so they can join him for breakfast. This is also a good way to make sure we're all up and running for the start of our school day.