What time do your children wake up?

[Guest thefranks2009]

I'm curious what other families consider a "normal" wake up time. We usually get up around 5:00 A.M. but I'm starting to wonder if that may be too early... Sorry if this seems like a silly question!

[prairiewindmomma]

You're on the early side.

 

I have one that wakes naturally at 5, one at 7, one at 9, and a teen who could sleep all day. :)

I wake whoever is not up already at 7.

[Arcadia]

My 9 year old wakes up around 7am. My 10 year old will sleep in unless they have outside classes for which I have to wake him up at 7am.

 

My 9 year old would have no problem with a 5am wake up time but hubby and I are night owls so we tell him to go back to sleep.

[ezrabean2005]

We are up at 5am, but that's only because we run a coffee shop. On the weekends, the kids would get up around 6 on their own. I could easily sleep until 8-9 am if I was able to though!

[Dmmetler]

8:00 for DD, reluctantly. If she had her way, she'd wake up about noon and go to bed about 2:00 AM. Homeschooling allows flexibility, but my internal clock doesn't allow THAT much flexibility!

[Guest thefranks2009]

Wow! I didn't expect replies so quickly :) but I'm relieved that there are other early risers out there. Haha, I guess most of our friends and family seem to be night owls then.

[Tammi K]

We're usually up by 6:00 but that is because we need to be out of the door by 7:00 to get to the ice rink. Given their reference, my son would probably rise by 8:00 and my daughter would sleep until noon.

[marbel]

My alarm goes off at 6:30 and my husband and I are usually up between then and 7.  Kids set their alarms if they have to be up and out for some reason, but on a "regular" homeschool day with no early appointments, I start sending the dog to wake them up between 7:30 and 8.    If someone has been sick, anything goes.   My kids and husband will naturally sleep till at least 9.  I can't sleep much past 7 anymore.

 

BTW:  5 am is only too early if you think it's too early.  If you have things to do, or people naturally wake up then, it's not too early.

[Tanaqui]

5 am is what I call "stupid o'clock in the morning", but if your family is happy waking at that hour, more power to you.

[Miss Peregrine]

Whenever they wake up, unless we have somewhere to be early.

 

I have two in growth spurts right now so sometimes that is 10-11ish.

[Sneezyone]

DH is up and out before 5a. My kids are usually up by 8a but occasionally sleep later (growth spurts, unauthorized reading at night, illness). They're not in bed until 9 or 10p though due to DDs gym schedule so I'm OK with a later start. I've never been a morning person anyway. We do school from 9a to 2p or 10a to 3p. Afternoon activities begin at 4:30.

[Amy in NH]

Between 8 and 10; it depends on how late they stayed up reading in bed.

[AK_Mom4]

Dd13 gets herself up at 7:20 because she has a class at 8:15 this year. Next year, it move to 6:30am so ahe will need get up when DH and I do at 5:30.

 

Weekends she sleepa until about 8:30am

[Ellie]

I am SO thankful that God didn't give me children who woke up at 5 a.m.!!!! :svengo:

 

My children naturally woke up between 7:30 and 8 a.m.

[Night Elf]

Before the teenage years, my kids didn't have a wake-up time. That was one huge advantage of homeschooling. Then dd started public high school and she and I both get up at 6:30am. But after I take her to school, I usually come home and go back to sleep. A couple of years ago, ds started waking at 10:30am to start his online classes at noon. We all know how to wake up early if we need to do so. I don't feel the need to practice it.

[PeacefulChaos]

FIVE AM?!?!?!?!?

 

Holy moly!!!!

 

My kids get up around 9, usually. Always have.

[Pod's mum]

Mine is now older, so unless there are friends staying over (up to watch the sunrise from down in a paddock somewhere), then she doesn't usually rise until about the third kick ;)

[4ofus]

In the warm school months we tend to rise between 7-7:30. In the cold months it's more like 7:30-8:00. That's during the week. Weekends vary depending on schedule. I don't think either of the boys would rise naturally before 9:00.

[T'smom]

My kids are almost always up before 6. They watch TV or play quietly until I get up around 7:30. Of course, if we have to actually be somewhere in the morning, I can't drag them out of bed. They sleep later in the summer when they are able to be more active.

[chocolatechip]

Just reading that someone regularly gets up at 5am is making me panicky!!!!!!

 

I had to get up between 5:30-5:45 for a class for a while and I thought that was bad. . . .  :svengo:

[AmandaVT]

7am usually - sometimes later if he's up late the night before. 

[Mom22ns]

For the first 15 years of his life my oldest got up at 6:00 every morning. When the time would change, it would be 5:00, but I made a rule that he had to stay in bed until 6:00 and he usually did. As he got older the rule became he couldn't wake me up before 6:00 and that worked too.

 

Now my teenagers will generally sleep as long as I let them and stay up equally late. We get up at 7:00 on school days due to afternoon commitments though. If they were in ps they would have to get up at 5:00 and be at school at 7:00. They feel lucky.

[DawnM]

10 year old gets up around 7:30-8:00am

Teens get up between 9:00am-10:00am

 

I see no good reason to make anyone get up at 5am unless they need to get somewhere to earn a paycheck or have a farm.

 

 

[Joker]

We all wake between 6-6:30 am during the school/work week. Last Saturday we actually had to wake our 15 year old up at 2pm (and she was in bed by 11pm). :svengo: Dds usually naturally wake up between 9am-12pm on weekends.

[The Girls' Mom]

It isn't too early if it works for your family.

 

Our family doesn't all get up at the same time. Dh wakes up around 6:30. I get up at 6 on days I have school. One DD 14 gets up on her own around 7. The other DD 14 gets up anywhere between 8 and 9. On days DD 18 doesn't have to go to school she will easily sleep until 1 or so in the afternoon.

[catz]

We have a enforced 7:30 wake up time for the kids during the week.  They have lots of activities they enjoy, so we generally need to be done with school early in the day.  I've also found anything we get done before about 1 pm in terms of school is much high quality than anything after.  DH gets up by 6 and heads to work.  My alarm is set for 6:30, but sometimes I just lay in bed and read until the kids get up.  I actually wish I could get in the habit of getting out of bed sooner.

[ScoutTN]

Ds wakes between 6 and 7. He was a 5:30 kid for several years. Definitely a morning person, like me.

Dd usually between 7 and 8. Like Dh, not a morning person.

 

They both sleep later in the winter when it is cold and dark in the mornings. We are up early in the summer, gardening and playing outside before it gets so hot.

[Maela]

I get up at 6am. Ds gets up at 7 because I won't allow him to get up before that. :-). If I don't make these rules he ends up waking earlier and earlier and needing to go to bed earlier and earlier. Dd is the opposite. I have to wake her up by 7:30. If I don't do this, she'll want to wake up later and later and stay up later and later at night.

[SKL]

Theoretically, 7:00.  Ha!  Well, they have a bus to catch at 7:37 so it can't be too much later than that.  (Forget earlier.)

 

I hate waking up.  I can't wait until my kids are independent enough to get their own selves off to school so I can sleep in!  :P

[LifeLovePassion]

The girls wake up on their own between 6:30 and 7:30. They are 6 and 8. It used to be earlier, around 6.

[Mommy22alyns]

7:30 via alarm to shower.  If they got to sleep in until whenever, maybe 8 or 9?

 

We're night owls by genetics and life circumstances.

[vickjul]

Mine usually wake between 6:30-7:30. Occasionally they'll wake earlier, but I've asked them not to get up before the sun gets up. ;-) I wake them only if we have to be out the door by a certain time.

[MrsMommy]

None of them sleep later than 7:30, and I have one that rises with the sun. Or, in the winter, earlier than the sun. I could sleep until 10. I think. It's been so long, I don't actually know if I could do that anymore!

[Baseball mom]

We are night owls and I have teens. Somewhere between 8-9am.

 

Dh gets up about 7:30 to go to work (gets up as late as possible :lol: ) during week but weekends he sleeps anywhere from 10-noon.

[73349]

DS is finally at an age when he sometimes sleeps past 7 (today 8!!). When he was smaller, we had to get a color-changing clock so he would know when he was allowed to get up, or he would've gotten up at 4 or 5. I prefer to stay in bed until the sun is up.

[elegantlion]

My son is a night owl and because of our schedule he gets up around noon. I gave up subscribing to a cultural norm for a schedule. :coolgleamA:  He can get up early when he needs, as in today. 

 

If 5 am works for you, then let it work. 

 

When he was in private school, he had to be up by 6:15. He did it, but was a bear for two years. 

 

I am generally up by 7 as I have college 3 days a week. 

[Momling]

7-8 seems about right. My almost 13 yr will stay sleeping/reading until noon if I let her. Everyone else gets up around 7ish.

[Onceuponatime]

The 10yo gets himself up around 6:30. The 15yo is required to drag his body out of bed by 8:00. The graduate is on his own schedule.

[TravelingChris]

Dh and I get up at 6- 6:30 am on work days and about 7 on non work days.  I often actually get up at 5:30 am since I don;t always need that much sleep.  My youngest, who is the only one I am still homeschooling and sort of in charge of, wakes on non college days at around 9am and on college days at around 8am. 

[Suzanne in ABQ]

17yods would prefer to sleep until noon, and does any chance he gets, but he has no trouble getting up at 6:30 or 7:00 for school or work.

 

9yodd naturally sleeps until 11, but I don't let her do that on school days.  I wake her at 8 or 9, depending on what we're doing that day.  

[lailasmum]

My 6 year old wakes up between 6 and 7 and my 10 year old about 8:30. I wake about 6 normally. 5 seems quite early but if you are getting enough sleep I'm not sure it matters.

[Zinnia]

Mine are 2, 4, 6, and 8.  They tend to wake within 15 minutes of each other, around 6:30.  This is so much better than when the oldest was a baby, and they used to regularly hit 5:30.  I can handle 6:30, occasionally creeping towards 7.  It is awesome.

[ksr5377]

Wow, for me, 5am is early.  DH and I are both night owls.  He doesn't have to be at work until 8am.  My children wake up naturally sometime between 7 and 8.  I like to be up ahead of them so I shoot for 6am.  It's still dark at 6am.  I can't imagine 5am.  HOWEVER, my best friend is usually up at 5, kids up at 6 and starting school by 7:30.  I think it's whatever works for you. Unless you're having a really hard time waking up your children every single morning, then it's probably fine.

[Gil]

We're early risers but it varies between 5am-7am. The boys go to sleep when they want to, but I wake them up when I need them up based on when I work or what we have to do that day.

[fairfarmhand]

Youngest son around 7.

 

Others, between 7-8 usually.

 

Oldest would sleep later but she's got stuff to do.

 

I get up around 6:30 for some blessed quiet.

[Mommy_of_4]

7yr old: wakes naturally at 6am

6yr old: wakes naturally at 8am

3yr old: wakes naturally 6:30-8am

18 month old: wakes naturally 8-9am

Me: I usually get up bout 7:30.

[Artichoke]

I'm usually up by 4:45 to walk with friends in the morning. It's something I look forward to, so it's easier for me to get up. Dh is usually up by 6:00 and dd by 7:00. We're all usually in bed by 10 pm or so. On the weekends, we'll sleep until about 7:30.

 

When the college students are home, they pretty much sleep until noon or later for the first few days :-)

[SageRebel]

My littlest wakes around 5-7. My older two 7-8. Me 7-8. They usually pounce me in the morning to wake me up. I am a night owl who goes to sleep between 12-3am. Here is us during school. :zombiechase: Come here my precious I want your brain, for educational purposes that is. 

[ikslo]

Hmmm... I have no idea whatsoever.  I am usually at work when DH & DS get up.  I never thought to ask.

[Farrar]

We get up between 9-10. I say it's making up for all those years of forcing me up at 4:30 am.