4 Tips to Help Kids Wake Up in the Morning

No matter how you have chosen to educate your kids, chances are you have to wake them up in the morning. The stereotypical vision of a parent with pots and pans being ignored by a blanket covered kid is not so far from the truth. Many kids are pretty hard to pry from slumber land. If your child is one of the many, here are a few tips that hopefully will help end your early morning battle.

Hide the alarm.

When I was in school my dad cleverly started hiding my alarm. He often put it someplace new each day, someplace I have to actually get up and move around to get to. He also made sure my alarm was the loudest most annoying thing he could. This eliminated me going back to sleep after turning my alarm off, breaking my alarm, and redirected the I-don’t-want-to-be-up grumpiness to my alarm rather than him who would have been waking me previously.

Breakfast in bed.

While not all parents have time to make a steaming pile of fruit laced waffles every morning, have some sort of food ready when your child wakes up can really help them wake up, especially if its accompanied by a cold glass of juice, milk or water. If your kid can just wake up and kind of sit around when they first wake up they’ll stay groggy and grumpy longer, eating unlike showers or getting dressed is often something children want to do, so it doesn’t create one more battle it just gets a morning necessity out of the way earlier.

Turn your thermostat down.

If you turn down the heat before you go to bed you’ll not only save on your utility bill, but by morning you home will be a bit chiller. When your house is all warm and cozy everyone including your kid feel like staying in bed and napping the day away, getting up to get that alarm in a cool room rather than a warm one can really help your child wake up faster.

Make it worth it.

Finally, you need to find some sort of incentive for your kids to get up in a timely manner. For me, it was my brother would get the front seat in the car or use all the hot water in the shower if I didn’t hurry my butt up. For you, you may add it to your chore list which offers some reward for completion, or find some natural enticement like the one I mentioned above that you just need to point out to your child. Your goal either way is to make getting up more appealing than sleeping.

How do you get your kids up in the morning?

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