Time to get up
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Topic: Time to get up
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Subject: Time to get up
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 10:12am
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OK, I remember a few posts ages back about some of you having a certain time which your kidlets are allowed to get out of bed.
Hannah has the odd morning (well, more often than not at the moment) where she wakes up at 5am. So far I have just been dragging her into my bed where she goes back to sleep until 7.30 (yeah, I know... bad mother... but as I am on my own it hasn't been a problem) So now I'm sick of it and think she is old enough to (partly) comprehend that you don't get out of bed until it is 'wake up time'. How do I go about it??? Do I just leave her crying until 7am, or do I go in when she wakes up and tell her I'll come back at 7am, or do I set an alarm or something to turn on so that she knows when she is allowed to get up? Her room is now in a part of the house that it won't bother anyone if she cries. I actually have a hard time hearing her! 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 10:30am
| Jake is in with us, and has been getting up at 5:30am./ Little bugger. Anyway, we grab him a bottle, shove him in with us and hope like hell he goes back to sleep, until the sun comes up at least. He usually doesn't and we get up at 6/6-30. When he was in his own room, we would just ignore him honestly until 7. Sometimes he was cold though - very very wet napps. |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 10:57am
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super nanny says ue a clock show her what time mummy will be coming to get her up leave books and toys for her to play with hope this helps ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: k&jsmum
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 11:13am
im having that prob with the boys at the mo - 5-5.30 wake up esp Jaidyn who has figured out how to open the door (wedges his fingers in it to get open!!!) and comes cruising on in to have a chat and a cuddle which would be all fine if he would stay still and let me get some more sleep anyway depending on the time i put Jaidyn back to bed and bribe with a bottle and usually that is all good until Keegs wakes about 6-6.30 and they play until 7 when i get them up. Also i check their naps as sometimes they have woken cos they are wet and cold (like liz said) so change them and they are alot happoer to just hang til 7am. ------------- Marlene Keegan ~ 14 October 2003 Jaidyn ~ 14 October 2003 |
Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 12:16pm
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I am SO glad you brought this up!! My little rotter wakes up every morning before 5.30. I can easily ignore him (mean mum!) but Andy gets up for work at 5.40. So every morning we all wake up super early, and it is doing my head in. Ideas to train him to sleep just a wee bit longer would very much be appreciated!
Andy's theory is that we turn the light on, once the light is on he can get up (he suggested a red-light bulb or something similar) but this plan doesn't thrill me. I am far too sceptical and prone to lean towards the ignore-him-til-it-is-time method, but as Andy doesn't agree with me there he brings Quinn in to bed with me when he gets up. From there we have a few rounds of 'how far can Quinn sticks his fingers up mummys nostrils' or 'pull mummys eyelids open by force thus ensuring a reaction' (apparently a horrified reaction is far more exciting than the tolerant version!) and then we get up. NOT A GOOD WAY TO START THE DAY!! ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 5:55pm
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lol Anna. I know exactly how you feel. Hannah has a fascination with eyes and noses, unfortunately her fascination is poking fingers as far as possible into eyes and up nose. Arghhhh
I was thinking about the light thing but more along the lines of a little light that Han is only just able to see from her cot. On the days that she does sleep longer than 7am I will quite happily leave her to sleep!!! |
Posted By: melz
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 9:04pm
| We started Angie at 7am when she was about 18months. We just taught her the number 7 and she couldn't get up until it was on. You could always set an alarm onto the radio and tell her she could get up when the music is on. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 9:56pm
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paris used to just come into our bed.. i mean even if she didn't go back to sleep she would happily lie there talking to her toys, at least we knew what she was doing. now with two of them, 7 am is a sleep in, and putting them in our bed is an open invitation for Ayja to beat everyon eup, pull her sisters hair and for paris to sit there demanding for us to get up. argh. i blame myself cos i mucked up their routine when i was on placement at getting them up at 5.30am... so really, they're pretty good reverting back to 7am.. that's when they get woken on a usuall weekday morning, why should they be able to change on the weekends?
argh, kids... looking forward to when they are unruly teenagers who won't get out of bed till noon.lol  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 8:22am
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Ahhhh can't wait for that
I still don't know what I'm going to do. Might try the clock thing but I think she's still a bit young to understand. Wish she was a child prodigy
I got her up at 7 this morning. She was crying and I have no idea how long for. Can't have been that bad as she only had a few tears. hehehe Very convenient that it's hard to hear her from my room. Makes ignoring her very easy
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 8:54am
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I don't know.. Ella has been waking at 6am and there is no way she will go back to sleep.. this is the child who kept her mother and father awake from 11.30 until 2am last night. (that's one of many sleepless nights). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 2:12pm
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Hannah has started waking about 5ish as well but I can settle her back to sleep til 7 without a feed or anything. Am wondering if thats about the time it starts to get daylight?? ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: k&jsmum
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 3:50pm
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it is the time its start to get late. I so now understand when parents used talk about hating daylight savings as the boys sleep heaps better in the winter. oh well ... ------------- Marlene Keegan ~ 14 October 2003 Jaidyn ~ 14 October 2003 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 6:38pm
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That's why I am soooo glad Hannah has a dark room!
It would be hell if she were in my room as I have a skylight. Arghhh drives me nuts |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 1:13pm
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Joey wakes sometime between 5.30 and 6.30 too, we just grab him in with us and i FEED HIM BACK TO SLEEP AND WE GET UP WHENEVER HE'S READY TOO. aH, THE JOYS OF BEING A sahm OF ONE OOOPScaps lock... to lazy to change it... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 3:26pm
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ooooh i remember those days. *sigh* lolol ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 4:51pm
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james wake at between 5am and 6am for a bottle then he just lies in my bed (i uselly back too sleep before he is)lol ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |