Try This: Getting Kids Out of Bed in the Morning

squirt gun-they got a warning first.

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Night Owls get their soundest sleep the last 2 1/2 hours they are in bed. Set up a family schedule to get everyone up, showered, fed and off to work or school. Give them an alarm clock with no "snooze alarm". Move back the bedtime 15 minutes for a week. Keep moving it back until eventually, they will get up without a problem.

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I was lucky mine always put their things together the evening before...showered washed their hair laid out their clothes...then slept to the last possible minute....woke up on their own...jumped up washed up brushed teeth.. dressed...did hair...make up whatever.....grabbed their lunch...a fruit for breakfast and were off and running! They also cooked cleaned did laundry dishes chores and spoke respectfully to others.Me too when I was a kid....Dad got up early and left at 06:30.....he would stand at my door 3 separate times and say"Hey time to get up" after that I was on MY own!!!!! Worked too I was up by the time he left the house....no backtalk from me:) Just swearing at him under my breath:):)

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I used frozen marbles to get my daughter out of bed. Where ever the child moves the marbles follow. I tried the pulling off the covers, spritzing with water, threats, alarms etc and nothing worked untill the marbles. The second time I headed up the stairs with the marbles, She eclaimed,"I'm up!, I'm up!" no more problems.

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Oh, How times have changed. When I was a kid, if we wanted anything (me and my four brothers and two sisters) we had to get jobs and work. My three younger brothers and I all had paper routes at one time or the other and had to get out of bed to do that. Like 4:00 a.m. and then when we were done, we'd go to school. Our father worked in the woods falling trees and he was up at 4:00 a.m. anyway so there was no getting out of it and besides we had a responsibility. Not only to get up for school but the papers must be delivered.

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I do not have any kids. (Thank you God.)

If I did, I would get an air horn.

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I forgot to mention, after my parents divorced my mother took us to NY and we stayed with a TRADITIONAL Italian grandmother. That first winter she opened the bedroom window (SNOWING OUTSIDE) and dipped her hands in cold water to smooth on my face. Cold wind from open window and ice cold fingers were not as bad as her grandma-breath in my face. Her breath could kill--i got out of bed to avoid bad breath-death. LOL

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I think I'm probably the only one with a teenager who stays up late yet gets herself up without problems every morning to be at school at 8:15am. She usually gets everything ready the night before and gets up at 7:45am; all I ever do is to go to her room to check that she's up. The fact that my boys are early risers too is encouraging! ;-))
Also: a bedroom facing east helps, especially if you leave the curtains open. Your body will respond to the sunlight, and you'll wake up automatically and naturally.

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I use the pulling-off-the-covers one on my mom. She has a split shift and sometimes sleeps through the split, so I yank her covers off when it's time for her to get up. If that fails, I encourage the (85lb) dog to get up onto the bed and lay down on her.

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When I was little my dad would stick an Ice cube down my back or in the covers to get me up.

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If your child cannot get out of bed in the morning then maybe he/she is not going to bed early enough.....

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I do the EARLY to bed thing.....I tell my 8th grade daugther.....AHHH TOO TIRED TO WAKE UP?....THAT MEANS YOU NEED MORE SLEEP....IN BED EARLY TONIGHT. When it ends up being over an hour earlier eventually....she got the message....BOY does she hate going to bed with the BABIES....LOL
Love the COLD marbles tho...that was very funny.

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throw those covers back and hit his/her ass with a wet leather belt and watch that kid come awake.

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