Waking up teenagers

pigpen

lowlitmemory wrote: »

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.

This is what I do with mine... Plus they go to bed at 9 so they can sleep 10/11 hours so I know they are not tired so if they are late for school/college they have noone to blame but themselves.. it is part of my teaching them to become independant adults the same as introducing them to cooking a meal, using the washing machine and that there isn't actually a laundry fairy.. if you don't put it in the basket it will not get washed!

Melonade

My son is starting getting himself up and ready now, think girls are involved somewhere.

If he was being difficult me or his dad would turn his keyboard on (right next to his bed) turn the volume up and hammer the keys :rotfl: not a happy bunny though if you do that lol. Funny though

valk_scot

Twice. I knock on DS's door when I get up, then after I've fed the cats, made tea and made sure DD has got up (she only needs one knock) I'll go in again and make sure he's awake. That's for school mornings but at weekends and holidays he sets his own alarm clock and is responsible for himself, if he needs to be going anywhere.

snozberry

If I was really getting on mums nerves when I was a teen (as in constantly ignoring her requests for me to get up) then she would barge into my room and take the duvet from me. Very annoying but highly effective!

FatVonD

I recently asked my DS, 15, what it would take for him to get up and to school on time without us having a screaming match. He said he wanted to be woken earlier so he had longer to lie there 'coming to' before having to get out of bed (he used only to get 5 minutes warning, now it's more like 30 minutes) and so far, fingers crossed, it seems to be working well.

antw23uk

chrisv24 wrote: »

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.

THIS.

With a wet sponge of cold water as well .. I soon got up :rotfl:

Threebabes

My 3 kids get up themselves, DS is 17, DD's 13 and 9.

They have phones with alarms on.

GlasweJen

There were 5 of us, all had to be at school for 9am. Oldest had to leave at 8:00, middle two at 8:10 and youngest two 8:40.

While we were at primary mum would wake us and help us get dressed and stuff, high school we had to get ourselves up and to the bus stops or we were late and had to get the actual bus to school which cost us part of our weekly allowance and made us late for school. People who were on the "late list" had to do dinner duties (litter picking) during first break so it was a fairly good incentive to get up and out on time.

TeamLowe

My dad used to stand at my sister's door and say wake up...now sit up...both feet on the floor...ok get dressed. Tended to work although she did used to get dressed then get back in bed until we had to leave for school

My husband does not get up well but he's on flexi time so if he's late in it just means he's late out x

JanCee

antw23uk wrote: »

THIS.

With a wet sponge of cold water as well .. I soon got up :rotfl:

^^^^
This method worked fine for me & my sleepy teen. Plus I only ever had to to it once, just the promise of it was enough after that.