Children Getting up in the morning

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Slightly odd question maybe, but to those of you who have kids, what time do you get them up in the morning?

Do they get themselves up or do you get up before them. What is the right time for a child to get up and is it wrong to send a child back to bed if they get up early or is it considered cruel (if they're not really tired for example)?

Or do you see it as you make a rule for bed time, so you make a rule for getting up time?

Interested to hear peoples views on this
 
My 9yr old would stay up all night playing minecraft if she could I have caught her getting up at 3am to play on a server. She is an early bird though usually up before me 6-7am most mornings. Whereas my son 6yrs old if he goes to bed late on the weekend will be up at around 9am otherwise he is usually up at around 8am. I have never had to wake them up. (Basically the same set up I had as a child and I turned out ok... I think)

I don't set bed time rules for the weekend (usually give them a half hour warning) but weeknights normally between 8-8.30PM

Basically if they have 8-10 hours sleep that's what counts more then anything else.
 
My 16 month old get up between 6 and 8 varies a bit but Atleast she sleeps through most nights, my 5 year old gets woke up at 7 for school and if it's a weekend and she gets up before her little sister she generally plays in her room or on the ipad either in her room or in her bedroom depends on what she wants, we only ever send her back to sleep if it's very early I. E. Anything before 5.30 normally but that's very rare as she. I always feel I'm being lazy and selfish if I send her back to bed for my benefit but I'm happy with a 7am wake every morning, get more done and it's lay in when I'm normally up at 5 for my early shifts.
 
My two are 6 and 8. On a school night they are in bed by by 7.30pm and wake up about 7.30am. At the weekend they can stay up as late as 8.30pm but that is entirely dependent on how well they are behaving. Tonight they were in bed by 8pm. They can get up as early as 6am but I refuse to get up before7am. My daughter has sneeked down stairs a few times this week to play on her laptop.
 
My 8 year old
up at 8am
bed at 9pm
But the schools only 2 streets away so he doesn't need a lot of time in the morning

Stays up as long as he can on Friday and Saturday but he usually just falls asleep watching a film or tv on his xbox
 
I don't have kids, but when I was a nipper, it was bed at 8.30 - 9pm, wake at 7.30am.

And on a weekend, my Mum would wake me up before 9am arrived.
 
I was rarely out of bed before 7:45am on a school day and 9am on a non-school day. One of my sisters on the other hand was rarely in bed after 5am.

Kind of strange in a way as we were brought up pretty similiar, lived in the exact same environment, etc. but she'd be out like a light by 9pm whereas even fairly early on my parents struggled to get me to settle before midnight, she'd be up at the crack of dawn and I'd struggle to emerge before 11am.
 
My kids (9 and 6) struggle to get up for school and are always difficult to wake at about 7:45. At weekends I let them sleep in and for some reason they wake up around 6am and then jump on top of me when I have a hangover.

It's better than 5am that they used to wake up as babies. I really don't miss those times :)
 
Bed at 8pm but she can get up anywhere from 5-6am.

She's 2 and a half :(
 
I have a 2 and a half and a 1 year old.

Bedtime at 7pm each night and they are normally up from 6-7:30am every day.
 
Well I have 3 kids, Ages are 3, 5 and 9...Our youngest goes up at 6:30pm And she is up anywhere between 5:15 and 5:30am everyday and the other 2 get up about 6:30-7:00am!
They don't have late nights often and are normally raring to go at those times. It drives us insane at times, But they go down to sleep with-out a whimper at nights...Guess you can't have it both ways :(
 
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