kids getting up really early on christmas day? How to keep them in a bed longer!

Biddyrolo

We used to put stockings for the kids outside their bedroom door, actualy we still do this but as they are now 23 and 19 Santa has usually been before they come home from Xmas eve revelry :rolleyes:

susie76

i honestly don't mind how early my kids get up on xmas day, as i like the getting up when it's dark and eating all the chocolate coins pre 6 am myself, but i have learned not to fill their stockings too early - one year i thought i'd be organised and do it at about 11.00 so i could go to bed earlyish - needless to say my daughter woke up before midnight, saw santa had been and wanted to get up! She then woke up every half an hout til we gave up at 4 am and let xmas day begin.

Guinea_2

Well I am 27, my brother older and a slightly younger sister...we still get up around 6am. Even now though we are not allowed down the stairs until my Dad has got up and he MUST be the very first person down the stairs....just to make sure that Father Christmas has been!

lil_me

Mine slept in last year, much shock as the oldest is a bad sleeper usually, we ended up being late everywhere we were mean't to go.

jennywren1976

My two usually wake up early on xmas morning...well the eldest normally wakes the youngest up, the little one doesn't get much say in the matter!!
Then its pile onto mums bed to open stocking presents. I don't mind if its after about 6am, anything earlier and its time for the super strength concealer for the bags under mums eyes!
I remember when I was a kid my Father Christmas always got us an annual in our xmas stocking so even if we got up too early we would always have the annuals to read til it was time to get up proper. I always got the Beano!:j

*Louise*

Mine don't get up till 8am.


I know of someone whose son's would set their alarm for 4 or 5am every year, and made her get up with them.......it became a tradition and they STILL do it - even though they are both in their 20's:eek:

char22

last year me and my boyfriend were sitting there in bed at 4 a.m waaiting for the kids to get up! it got to 5 and my bf said loundly " ooohhh has santa been " within seconds my kids were in my room with their filled stockings ripping all the pressies open. we end up down stair to open the presents from us and fmily at around 6.

i still can't sleep at christmas and i'm 24 ! i get all butterflies in my tummy all day christmas eve, and i don't even get anything for chrictmas, i just love seeing the kids faces and having a whole day thats all about them:D

Queenie

Christmas morning is ... well .. Christmas morning!! :j :j :j No laying in bed expected :laugh:

I don't ever remember any restrictions being placed on us as kids and I've never put one on my own children.

I have had to rather *loudly* cough and bang the bathroom door to give them the hint that it's ooooookaaaaay to get up - just in case they were laid in bed wondering :whistle:

It's once a year; it's exciting; it's CHRISTMAS!!! :j :j :j

996ducati

When the kids ask if is Christmas Eve yet we always tell them it is a day later than it really is.

So on Christmas Day they wake up well rested to a pile of presents:D

Queenie

996ducati wrote:

When the kids ask if is Christmas Eve yet we always tell them it is a day later than it really is.

So on Christmas Day they wake up well rested to a pile of presents:D

Aww, that's mean!! :laugh: How will you cope when they can read a calendar?