Waking up teenagers

tango

Some great replies, and food for thought ! My eldest gets herself up ,the three younger ones not so . After Easter I will start in order of age , next eldest ,then the next and finally the youngest. Can't put myself through too much abuse in one go

DundeeDoll

If it's any consolation now ds at uni he's very good at getting himself up

CruisingSaver

I tickle my DD's feet, that normally gets her shifted

bright_side

I wake my 15 yr old ds each morning by gently saying his name and kissing him on the cheek He then spends about 45 minutes in the bath, leaving 15 mins to get himself dressed and ready to go :rotfl:

lovesabargain123

I have 3 teenagers... Eldest has always got herself up way before anyone else for school as she is utterly organised and would be mortified if she was even 30 seconds late! Middle child has a paper round so is up,showered and out the door by 6.50am which is all his own doing... I tend to thinking about getting up from 6.30, then close my eyes for 5mins (which turns out to be 45mins) go in and give youngest a shout, I then use the bathroom and go in youngest room and yell again and take the quilt with me.... Go downstairs put kettle on...yell from bottom of stairs at youngest... Make tea.... Yell at youngest again.... Hubby gets home from gym and physically removed youngest from bed, then he takes dogs out! I go back upstairs and threaten youngest who has gone back to bed to throw cold water over him, I get in shower come out of bathroom yell at youngest I'm going back for cold water... Get taken over by grumpy over tired youngest who uses bathroom,toilet,wash and teeth... Yell at him once more to not dare lie back down, and then in 3 minutes his uniform is on, he's down the stairs and on his way to school with a brush of his hair if your lucky

Weekends they can do as they please (thank god!)

lovesabargain123

I should also add if youngest one isn't at school the eldest 2 sort themselves out, bring me my purse and ill throw lunch money at them from my bed (kids are 17-15-13)

Jinx

When my daughter was a teenager I would open her door and do the 'wakey wakey are you alive?' thing. Then as I left for work would shout up that I was leaving, time to get up.

That was it, she got herself up, dressed and to school on time. No dramas - she would be the one in trouble if late for school.

Weekends I left her to it, nice to have a peaceful cuppa before the madness!

busiscoming2

I think I've been lucky unless it was a routine instilled since they were tiny as my three have never had a problem getting up. They just had an alarm clock.

SingleSue

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.

Just to clarify my earlier post.....my eldest son can get himself up for his part time job, at usually an even earlier hour than for school. Middle son is usually already awake when I go in but as it is so cold at the moment, likes to stay in his bed as long as he can and youngest can get up on time for things he likes.......and he doesn't like school

Dustykitten

I think it is all about consequences. DS1 was always a nightmare at getting up and being late for school. When he had a Christmas job at a Dept store he had to leave home at 6:30 and did it every day (one slip up when phone battery died) he knew he'd be in trouble (never really was at school).

DS2 has to leave at 7:45 or he will miss his bus and the next is not for and hour and a half - he gets himself up or would be very late and in big trouble (different school)

DS3 needs to do a lot of preening before going to school so gets up in time for this.