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when preschoolers wake up early

post #1 of 18
8/9/12 at 1:25pm
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Do you get up with them right away or let them play in their room, get their own breakfast or watch tv for a while while?

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post #2 of 18
8/9/12 at 4:44pm
For my son, the concept of him getting up without Mommy is impossible. Lol.
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post #3 of 18
8/9/12 at 4:56pm

My ds is 6 now, but during the last year or so, he has gotten up by himself on the weekends and during the summer and turned on the tv. He knows how to turn the Wii on Netflix and find a show, he also will go let dd out of her room if he hears her and we have not gotten up to let her out yet. He comes and jumps on us when he wants breakfast.

 

On school days, there is no tv in the morning and I am up by 6 to work out and get ready for the day, so it's not an issue.

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post #4 of 18
8/9/12 at 6:21pm
I still cosleep with my 5 year old. If she wakes before me she will play her iPod in bed while waiting for me to get up. It wakes me up when she gets her iPod, so we usually just snuggle in bed for awhile before getting up.

This being said, my parents are here right now, so she likes to get up and come wake them up.

All of this being said, she sleeps until 9-9:30 anyway. lol

When school starts I get up at 6:30 so it won't be an issue.
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post #5 of 18
8/9/12 at 6:32pm

Depends on how early. Ds sometimes wakes up between 6 and 7 if he has a bad dream. I will try to get him to go to sleep with me. Most of the time it works but sometimes it doesn't. I usually get up with him and get him breakfast. Then if I need to I will just doze on the couch. When school starts he is going to have to up at 7, so starting next week we will shoot for up at 8:30 then ease ourselves back till school starts.

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post #6 of 18
8/9/12 at 7:11pm
I would have never let a preschooler get up without me much less roam around the house. NEVER. Once my kids were older I might have but even then I probably got up to feed them. If I knew they were up and especially if they wanted out of their room, I got up.
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post #7 of 18
8/9/12 at 7:40pm

If they actually get up before me and don't come running to mommy first thing, that's ok with me! Sometimes they will both play nicely in their room together.  M can but won't get her own breakfast, so when they get hungry, they come to me.

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post #8 of 18
8/9/12 at 9:16pm

Our rule was 8:00 am and still is.  You can read in bed if up early, but if ds gets up earlier than 8, he goes to bed earlier that night.  He hates that, so is really good about either sleeping in or getting out of bed at the stroke of 8.

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post #9 of 18
8/10/12 at 7:05am
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My munchkins are allowed to get up before me but they have to play in their room. I have a gate at the end of the hallway and then another at the kitchen that gets locked at night. If they get bored they tend to go wake up DD11 to come out and watch TV. She is usually accommodating and if she isn't then I just get up.  I always hear them and only half sleep once they get up. Most I can ever get is an extra hour. Today I didn't even get that and have been up since 4:30am. 

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post #10 of 18
8/10/12 at 7:47am
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Originally Posted by aliadam View Post

I would have never let a preschooler get up without me much less roam around the house. NEVER. Once my kids were older I might have but even then I probably got up to feed them. If I knew they were up and especially if they wanted out of their room, I got up.
Ditto. I can't control when they wake up, but they stay in their rooms and play quietly or read if they wake up before me. Roaming around the house or plugging themselves into the tv, an ipod, computer etc the moment they wake is so not happening. DH and I are up eeaarrlllyy on weekdays, so it's pretty ingrained behavior on the weekends as well and we are usually up and about already when the kids wake up.

Edited by Karen1985 - 8/10/12 at 7:54am
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