Waking up teenagers

tango

I have four What out of interest do people do when it comes to waking them up for school. Do you make them get themselves up or do you wake them up ,and if so how many times do you wake them up ?

SingleSue

I wake them up.....and up....and up....and up!

Today they didn't want to wake up as it is cold in the house.

chelseablue

I have to wake my OH up every morning for work.....and hes an adult! :-O

lowlitmemory

Please teach your teenagers how to get themselves up. My MIL always used to wake her kids, and my H is now terrible... he hears his alarm go off, but turns it off and goes back to sleep. It drives me mad that I have to be the one to wake him up!

My parents generally left it to us to wake ourselves up; they would go in if it was getting really late, but it was our responsibility and so we learned how to rouse ourselves upon hearing our alarm.

balletshoes

I only have one, neither of us are morning people .
I get up when the alarm goes off, and go wake DD up. Then I leave her to it. I call to her once after that, give her a timecheck. And thats it. If she's not ready, she'll have to lock up behind herself and rush to school.

When she was younger, maybe 7 or 8, I used to be timechecking her every 5 minutes, hurrying her along. But all that did was frustrate and irritate both of us.

gingin_2

For us it's routine, it doesn't really change, same time every morning so no nasty surprises. Although in this weather I just want to stay under the covers.

Tiglath

Wagner at full blast - it worked on my stepdaughter.

browneyedbazzi

I just saw this thread as a piece came on BBC Breakfast about how teenagers who stay up late and sleep longer in the morning do better in life than early to bed early to rise people. Perhaps they should be allowed to sleep in!

Ladyhawk

Get them alarm clock and don't nanny them. They know what time they need to be up and if they are late then they will have to deal with the consequences

chrisv24

When I was a teenager I literally had my mum walk into my room and pull the covers off if I stayed in bed too long.

dizziblonde

I always had to get myself up... indeed my mum was so crap at getting up in the mornings she had about 5 alarm clocks on the go and the neighbours complained so the council threatened a noise abatement notice - therefore I inherited the responsibility of waking the entire house up when I was aged about 12.

I've always been very good (albeit still blooming reluctant) at waking up at a required time on a morning ever since.