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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 594442" data-attributes="member: 15793"><p>"Not a morning person" doesn't begin to cover my kid. We've had daily screaming matches about getting out of bed and to school. And I've nearly sent her there in PJs. Also told her I'd have the police deliver her there.</p><p></p><p>Lately she's been better (not perfect, I still get up WAY early to start this process). I get up, make her breakfast, lay out her clothes, turn on her lights, including one of those lights that mimics sunlight, the TV in the living room, etc. Get all the light and noise rolling early. Greet her as I do this, but I don't try getting her up just yet. Once the lights, etc. are on, I put her clothes, deodorant, toothbrush in a pile in the bathroom (if it's not in that pile she won't remember to use it), then make her waffles. At a set time I will go to her room with her water or tea and her medications. Now we begin the drag the kid out of bed process. This can take time, which is why I get up so early to do it. And she takes forever to get ready, too, so my alarm goes off two hours before the bus arrives and I go in there with her medications half an hour after I get up and turn on everything. It's taken a while, but most of the time I have her out of bed without shouting in 15 minutes and her medications are in her. Sometimes she's more difficult or tired and it takes longer, sometimes it's easier. It's taken quite a while, and it's not always perfect (OMW there are mornings I still want to pour water on her because she's just not moving at all - but a lot less of them), and I don't know if it would work for someone with more than one child to handle, but it works for us (for now).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 594442, member: 15793"] "Not a morning person" doesn't begin to cover my kid. We've had daily screaming matches about getting out of bed and to school. And I've nearly sent her there in PJs. Also told her I'd have the police deliver her there. Lately she's been better (not perfect, I still get up WAY early to start this process). I get up, make her breakfast, lay out her clothes, turn on her lights, including one of those lights that mimics sunlight, the TV in the living room, etc. Get all the light and noise rolling early. Greet her as I do this, but I don't try getting her up just yet. Once the lights, etc. are on, I put her clothes, deodorant, toothbrush in a pile in the bathroom (if it's not in that pile she won't remember to use it), then make her waffles. At a set time I will go to her room with her water or tea and her medications. Now we begin the drag the kid out of bed process. This can take time, which is why I get up so early to do it. And she takes forever to get ready, too, so my alarm goes off two hours before the bus arrives and I go in there with her medications half an hour after I get up and turn on everything. It's taken a while, but most of the time I have her out of bed without shouting in 15 minutes and her medications are in her. Sometimes she's more difficult or tired and it takes longer, sometimes it's easier. It's taken quite a while, and it's not always perfect (OMW there are mornings I still want to pour water on her because she's just not moving at all - but a lot less of them), and I don't know if it would work for someone with more than one child to handle, but it works for us (for now). [/QUOTE]
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