Try This: Getting Kids Out of Bed in the Morning

My mom... "Get up, NOW. I'm not messing around, and if you miss the bus you will WALK to school, I'm NOT giving you a ride so when you're late you will have to march into the attendance office and tell them WHY you're late!!!" This only happened once.

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I raised five children, three boys and two girls mostly by myself, they learned quite young that when the school bus arrived, that they were getting on board in what ever state of being dressed or undressed they were in, that they were "GETTING ON THAT BUS" they always managed to be ready, They never were sure what would happen otherwise!! They grew up as responsible adults and take good care of thier own little ones.

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I've got a taser I've only had to use it once .When i say it's time to get up I see results now .

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As a teen myself, I was taught that when its time to get up, then its time to get up!!! Of course some days you want to lay there and rest a little longer, but I was taught at an early age if you do, then you'll face consequences such as not being able to straighten your hair or make breakfast.

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Good grief, this is parental pandering at its worse. Solution = GET UP NOW!!!!

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Che' My mom trained me with the alarm clock...on full blast on the other side of the room, So I had to actually get up and out of bed to turn it off. Now, I tend to wake up before the alarm.

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Teach your kids to respect you as they are growing up, make sure you earn their respect and don't just think it comes from just being a parent. Then when they are teens and you tell them something like get up, they usually will. If not have a consequence that is actually a consequence. It won't take much to get them going. Yes I have 2 teens, a boy and a girl. They both listen and do what they're supposed to do.

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I let my daughter get herself up and she was always late. Then she started just not getting up to be at her first class and even though she made all A's in the class (Calculus) she had too many absences and did not graduate!!! The joke was on her and she had to go to the fall semester for the Calc class and then graduate in Dec. So she was not able to graduate with her classmates!!! Kids....GET UP when you are told!!!

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air horns blasted at 3minute intervels WORK well

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My Grandmother kept glass marbles in the freezer. If one of her kids didn't get out of bed the 1st or second time they were called, she lifted the sheets and tossed in the marbles. Because the body makes an indent in the mattress, the marbles follow you wherever you roll. It worked for my aunt and uncle.

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Starting in 8th grade, I began riding my bike or walking to school, so I was responsible for getting there on my own. This was the best method for making me get out of bed on time, because I had to deal with real-world consequences for being irresponsible. It was simple really, if I was late too many times to school, I ended up with detention or worse... SATURDAY SCHOOL! Yep, my school did that. My mom didn't have to raise her voice, because there was nothing she could do to me or take away from me that was as bad as having to get up at 6:00 AM to go to Saturday Detention. Saturday School was the worst. It lasted 3 hours (7:00AM-10:00AM). I had to sit there quietly and either do homework or read quietly, and whatever I was reading had to be for a book report (we used our own books for those). Still, even with a book I liked (and I enjoyed reading), it was brutal. There were no bathroom breaks allowed (teenagers can hold it for a mere 3 hours), nor was their talking. If I needed to get out of my seat to sharpen a pencil or grab a piece of scratch paper for my math homework, I had to raise my hand and wait for the teacher to come to me so that I could ask permission. Oh, and the teacher who got drawn for Saturday School duty? Let's just say that he/she was NEVER happy about being there (giving up one of their only mornings off for a bunch of brats). Sometimes, it was the principal, and he was a pretty hardcore old-school type. He found all kinds of sadistic things for us to do, like write 5 paragraph essays about why we were there and what we would do to change. Needless to say, one morning of this and I spent my birthday money on a very loud clock radio. There's no need for drama, give the kid some freedom/responsibility and let the real-world consequences take care of it. No boss is going to show up to your house as an adult and hose you down if you're late, they'll just fire you.

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i found frozen marbles worked every time. Use it once and then all you have to do from then on is retrieve from the frezzer and shake

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When I was growing up, both of my parents worked. In fact, they left for work before my siblings and I had to go to school.
At most, they would turn on our bedroom lights when they got up. We had to have our own alarm clock, get up and do our thing in the morning.
If we missed the bus for school, we would miss school. My parents, a nurse and a government employee, taking time away from work to come back home, pick us up and drop us off at school because of our irresponsibilty, then go back to work was insanely difficult for them.
Now as a senior in college, I am glad my parents raised me and my siblings like that, because if I overslept and am running late to a test or a lab, that is my fault and my parents are not responsible for that. That is on me.

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The trick I used for my first grader when he wouldn't get out of his cozy bed in fall/ winter to a chilly house was to throw his clothes in the dryer for 5 minutes - just before waking him- and he would try to get them all on before they cooled off. Worked like a charm- at least in the cooler weather! he LOVED getting into toasty warm clothes.

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often its the stay at home moms that won't get their lazy butts out of bed all day

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I made my teenage sons put their alarm clocks on the other side of the room to keep them from just reaching over, turning them off, and going back to sleep. They both had alarm clocks that had two alarms set 15 minutes apart. Most of the time when they got up to shut off the alarm, they had to go to the bathroom. Walking down the hall to the bathroom got them up and going. Houses should not be built with each bedroom, other than the master bedroom, having its own private bathroom, because it makes it difficult to get kids up and going. Now if anyone had problems waking up, the smell of coffee brewing wakes them up. Ah, for caffeine addictions...

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I usually got up when I was supposed to, but my younger brother always refused to get up. My mom would stand there for half an hour begging him to get up while he pulled the covers over his head. My dad's solution? A cup of cold water! Got him up every time. You would think my brother would have learned after the first, MAYBE the second soggy wake-up, but no, dad had to do this almost daily, even when my brother was nearly out of his teens! Thank goodness that at nearly 35 he finally grew up, but boy, his teen years were a trial for ALL of us!

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