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These New York moms agreed, waking teens up in the morning is no easy task. Some use bribery like delicious breakfast to lure their kid out of bed. Others use harsher methods like pulling the covers off and letting them get really cold!
Our resident AdviceMama gives some pointers on how to separate your teen and her pillow in the morning:
"Rather than resorting to threats, bribes and general hysteria to light a fire under that slow-moving youngster of yours, focus on waking her and her groggy brain up without relying on drama and shouting to get her adrenalin pumping. Bring her a protein smoothie or an apple slice to kick-start her system when you wake her up. Turn on energetic music to help your daughter shift out of her foggy state," she says.
For more tips from moms like you, check out the rest of our Try This video series.
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 5)
3-30-2011 @ 3:50PM
carol said...I LOVE THIS! it's the best idea ever! i wish my kids weren't responsible. i would love to use this.
3-30-2011 @ 2:28PM
lrusch2 said...If they don't get up, let them be late. Call the school and tell the office they wouldn't get out of bed so they will be late that day. Kids do not like to be embarassed by walking into a class late. However late they are, make bedtime that much earlier. I doubt you'll have to do this more than once.
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3-30-2011 @ 2:31PM
Donna said...I liked the comments before mine, they all are correct too.
I was expecting ',I will beat them until they get up or I will'.. that kind of talk. thank goodness some parents are smart.
I just wanted to add, dont wake the kids up screaming and yelling, it will only make you, and the kids nervous for the rest of the day. No one wins while someones screaming, my mother did that crap to me, we dont speak now, ever.
This story was a good one, it can help parents with their kids when they reach their preteen years.
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3-30-2011 @ 2:34PM
Frances said...Protein smoothie? Apple slice? Music? Alarm clock?
My kids slept too hard to eat or drink anything without choking to death. As to music or an alarm--a freight train racing beside their beds wouldn't have disturbed them in the least. What DID wake them was swift removal of their blankets and/or pillows.
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3-30-2011 @ 3:31PM
ziaaaaaaaaa said...I know, right? If they have a hard time getting up, I highly doubt it that apple slices and smoothies are going to do the trick. lol
When my child was young I used to tickle his feet to get him up, that always did the job.
3-30-2011 @ 4:31PM
Lynn said...Thank you! My kid has never been able to stomach breakfast, and I'm sure music would just make him sleep harder, unless of course I tried Justin Bieber. Fifteen year old boys hate that stuff. Would be an idea, but I can stand it either. I agree with zaaaaa, tickleing sometimes works. Usually my son is pretty good at getting up first time I let him know it's time. Lucky for me.
3-30-2011 @ 6:31PM
Lisa said...No kidding. They are misbehaving, so we're going to REWARD that behavior? I think not. My teenager fought the whole alarm clock thing - he liked having his Dad wake him up; but we insisted, and he now wakes up and showers 30 minutes earlier than he NEEDS to so that he has some "zone" time before he has to leave for school.
3-30-2011 @ 8:00PM
Russ B said...Icewater is the answer, and the wonderful part is that with enough of it tonight wont be pleasant either, one or two occurences work wonders for the future.
3-30-2011 @ 2:43PM
Ginger said...It is REALLY sad that they ADVISE parents to pamper their kids by bringing them some stupid protein smoothie. How about this.... teach that kid some responsibility?
Make them set an alarm to get up. If they don't do that on their own, then you be the alarm. If that doesn't work, let them sleep in and then when they get up, take them to school IN their jammies, no hair brushed, no teeth brushed, nothing, just straight out of bed. Let them suffer the consequence of the mark on their record and the harassment about bad breathe, and then DEDUCT the cost of you transporting them from their allowance.
My kids get up by an alarm, get themselves ready and to the bus stop. They pack their lunches. If they get up too late to pack lunch, they have to use their allowance to pay to eat out, I provide breakfast, lunch and dinner from home, no one else eats out daily, why should they? So, if they don't get up, they have to go to school late and funky and pay for their lunch. After a time or two, they get out of bed.
After all..... who the hell will bring you that smoothie when you are out on your own????
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3-30-2011 @ 10:21PM
msmcbirnie said...why are you a parent?
3-30-2011 @ 2:47PM
Olivia said...I find ice cubes or a cattle prod work best.
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3-30-2011 @ 2:50PM
phoenix said...today s heathen and their brats should sleep in they have nothing to look forward to except baseball and harry potter
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3-30-2011 @ 2:51PM
Carrie said...Bring her a smoothie? Resident AdviceMama needs a reality check. This is not an A-List Hollywood actress, this is your kid. Teach them how to use an alarm clock when they're young and you can mostly avoid the issue altogether when they're teens. It worked for me and it has worked for my kids.
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3-30-2011 @ 2:53PM
Olivia said...Just joking!!! Everyone knows tasering them is the most effective way.
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3-30-2011 @ 2:56PM
SHOCKED said...Are you kidding me? Can you say ALARM CLOCK. I have two teens, 14 and 16. They wake ME up to give me a kiss goodbye on their way out the door...after they've eaten breakfast, made their lunches and yes, folded their laundry. What has happened to good old fashioned parenting? I am worried, not about my sons, but about the kids that have no respect for their parents, negatively influencing my sons. PS- My boys think I am one of the nicest moms in the world!
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3-30-2011 @ 2:59PM
Ken Howes said...I didn't get up one morning when my father told me to get up. About half a minute later, he dumped a glass of cold water on my head. THAT got me up; when I spluttered at him, he said, "Then the next time I tell you to get up, GET UP!"
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3-30-2011 @ 3:30PM
colleen said...My daughter gets up on her own but my son is a heavy sleeper. I wake him up and if he isn't ready on time I use the parental controls for his cell phone and turn it off for the day (so he can only call or receive calls from the people I put on the list--me!) and then the next day if he is on time I turn the phone back on. That is what works best for me! I so still yell across the hall a few times because he has a really hard time waking up. Always has since he was a baby so part of that is just who he is.
3-30-2011 @ 8:21PM
Heather said...My dad did and said the exact same thing to all 5 of us! We certainly got out of bed on our own from then on. The suggestions in this article are ridiculous. Basically want you to bring your kid breakfast in bed every morning. Screw that. If my kid wants to eat breakfast he better get up early enough to eat at home or he can eat at school.
3-30-2011 @ 3:10PM
Glenn said...Don't help them do anything. Kick their ass if they don't.
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3-30-2011 @ 4:15PM
Joe said...Please don't reproduce.