Try This: Getting Kids Out of Bed in the Morning

Totally Agree!!!
I do not understand the mind set of the parents that write in whining about how their kids won't do this....or refuse to do that! Who's the adult in their homes?!?!?!
Back to basics folks, teach responsibility at the outset, & then ENFORCE IT!!
Let them get to school late (even miss it) & then have to suffer the consequences, both at home & at school. They'll learn...even if it is the hard way. Parents are so wimpy these days.

I agree. My daughter did the same thing with her two boys. She bought them each an alarm clock and put the responsibility on them. She never, ever, had a problem with the kids sleeping in.

My parents woke me up kindly once maybe twice. Then it was a serious tone. If that did not work then it was a spanking. I learned fast to wake up and respect my parents authority. Bribing your kids with food or anything else is not going to work. Use the time and money saving tips at HTtP://Bit.Ly/SavingIdeas they also have a family friendly section on games.

My xwife was a "Your Daughter Won't Mind me" type of Woman. We had this child together, but by my x-wife's response you would not know that. Our 14 year old Daughter lives with me now. I have no issue with getting my daughter up in the morning. I believe it is a respect thing, I do lots of things for my daughter, I ask very little in return. My Daughter just gets the Job done!

My folks used the cold wet wash cloth trick. If I didnt get up they would pounce on me in the bed, hold me down and wash my face and body with a cold washcloth. I came out of that bed kicking and screaming but I came out regardless. Years later I "came out" to them again....... but thats another story.

What about my 29yr old wife!?! I have to use "John's" squirt gun method to get her out of bed to take care of our 17mth old. Not all parents care enough as to how their kids will turn out and what they will go through as adults. PARENTS.... please take the time to teach your kids responsability, like Shell just said.

you know what..... my mother did the same thing to me. my mom always worked hours where she was out the house long before i had to get up. my dad worked nights... so he was home but usually sleep by the time i had to get up. i was taking public transportation @ 8 yrs old so i had to wake up to be on time. my mother didnt have to wake me up for school. it was only the weekends

My son is now grown. Please understand that there are kids that WILL not do what parents want them to do no matter what the outcome. My son would not get up. I tried the alarm clock. He broke 5 or 6 and still didn't get up. When the alarm went off he would throw it across the room. So he would be punished no movies that week or month, no hanging out with friends after school or on week ends etc.... Even when I managed to get him out of bed and to school he would walk in the front of the school and I guess just keep right on walking out the back . Yes I am the adult and yes he was the child. But I would be bowing to you if you had been around to solve my problem with him. On top of everything else he could literally sleep through being rolled off the bed onto the floor his dad did that a couple of times. THere was a fire one house over in the middle of the night Firetrucks and so forth shoulde dup screaming and yelling were going on. My son slept through every bit of it and his bedroom was at the front of the house. The fire department is a noisey bunch of guys, not to mention they bring out these huge lights that make middle of the day look like high noon. But again I say he slept right through it. Your a better person then I am if you could have done better.

That all sounds great, but some kids don't care about consequences, I have one out of three children who does not care if he is late or misses school and does not care if he is grounded or suspended or everything is taken away from him. It does not faze him to have to do chores or sit in his room, as long as I let him eat he is fine, and unfortunately I can not take food away from him, and no he's not a fat child, he's almost too skinny.

Too funny!

I fully agree, hose them down with cold water. Kids are babied too much these days. When you say jump they should JUMP!!

Yep. That's what I do. Lying in a cold, wet bed is no fun.

Ha ha, too funny. Will be even more so when your kids are the ones who choose your nursing home.

That does work John...my Dad did the ultimate to me when I was a teen - throw a handful of frozen marbles in the bed...that will chase you straight to the floor! You can't get away from them quick enough. I tried it on my daughter when she refused to get ready for school...guess what - we don't have a problem when we tell her it's time to get up

My daughter's senior year in high school was a nightmare when it came to getting her up in the morning. Nothing worked! By the time her principle called to tell me she had missed 47 days, I decided to get 'Madea' on her butt, and got out the belt!! I didn't have to actually hit her with it, but I came pretty close, whacking the heck outta the covers! Believe me, they move quick when Mom is swinging a leather belt and screaming! I had tried everything else, including escorting her to school in my robe and slippers with pink curlers in my hair, walking her from class to class ( I had to take a day off of work to do this). That lesson was in the fourth grade and lasted until her senior year, so it was worth it. As a mom, you gotta do what you gotta do. The pics all her friends took and posted were hilarious and I had literally at leat 30-40 other moms say that they threatened their kids with the same thing, and it helped them out!!!!

true thats what i did