Her kids won't wake up for school
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I was a kid who would not get up for school and to this day, getting up in the morning is a struggle each and every time. In my case it's a matter of just having a really hard time going from being asleep to being awake and being prone to falling back to sleep immediately and without meaning to, not becasue I was being willful or anything (I saved that for more important things).
My mother simply came in and woke me up every 10 minutes or so for an hour (I think...maybe 2), forcing me to actually talk to her each time. Not that that really mattered, as I would be asleep again by the time she left the room. On really bad days she would have to take my blankets and pillows. Now I have 4 alarms set in 15-minute increments which, eventually, gets me up. After about 2 hours of hitting snooze, which I do in my sleep...I think. Or maybe I just sleep through the first hour of it, I don't know. I'm a heavy sleeper...
My mother simply came in and woke me up every 10 minutes or so for an hour (I think...maybe 2), forcing me to actually talk to her each time. Not that that really mattered, as I would be asleep again by the time she left the room. On really bad days she would have to take my blankets and pillows. Now I have 4 alarms set in 15-minute increments which, eventually, gets me up. After about 2 hours of hitting snooze, which I do in my sleep...I think. Or maybe I just sleep through the first hour of it, I don't know. I'm a heavy sleeper...
I have to agree with most of the above posts. Threats are useless if you don't demonstrate a willingness to follow through on them. If taking away privileges doesn't work, time to start hauling the blankets off and letting loose with the airhorn.
I'd avoid using the hose though, water damage is a bitch.
I'd avoid using the hose though, water damage is a bitch.
Plastic sheets! -"Why are you putting plastic sheets on our beds mom?" - "So I can put the hose on you if you don't get up when I say so!" -should work wonders
Yes, tell her to get a backbone and kick some ass. Jeezmy mother raised four boys and was told by our father NOT to take any shit from us. When she said "MOVE", you did so and you did so quickly.
Let me guess, your friend molly-coddled these kids their whole lives?
Agreed. She's babyed them way too much.
The child of an aquaintance this week decided she didn't like school (Kindergarten) when she was supposed to return after Winter Break this past Monday. The mother let her "skip"/call in sick Monday and Tuesday.
Parents are way too soft. Tell this mother to go in their rooms in the mornings and bust some heads.
Yeah, having the pricipal "talk to them about the importance of school" will go over REAL well with kids. Kids respond well to lectures from vauge aquaintance authority figures.
Mom needs to go in there and wake them up or there will be trouble and that trouble needs to be real, mean something and HAPPEN if they don't obey.
None of this softly cooing them awake with a, "Wake up John-boy it's time for school."
She needs to bust in their rooms, thrown on the lights and say with a loud authoratative voice, "Wake up, time for school! Get dressed and downstairs in 10 minutes!"
Whipping them works, same with spanking, fuck if people think that's against the law.
I would start with taking everything out of the room when they are school some day, and tell them if the behave they might get them back.
This is why I think people need to get a license before having kids, some people clearly shouldn't.
I would start with taking everything out of the room when they are school some day, and tell them if the behave they might get them back.
This is why I think people need to get a license before having kids, some people clearly shouldn't.
My GF and I have a friend whose 7 year old kid walks all over her. We should call this kid OJ, because he gets away with murder. So they come over to the house one night and the kid starts acting up. At first no biggie, he is just a kid. But after repeatedly trying to get him to behave I had enough. Basically I told him to shape up and listen to his Mom or else he was going to have to leave.
Then later on, my GF comes up to me and tells me to not say things like that to her friends kid, because the friend didn't like it. Well tough f-cking sh-t! I'm not letting any snot-nosed run around the house and not listen to their parents. It just ain't happening!
Moral of the story, always discipline your kid, because if you don't someone else will, and you won't like it.
Then later on, my GF comes up to me and tells me to not say things like that to her friends kid, because the friend didn't like it. Well tough f-cking sh-t! I'm not letting any snot-nosed run around the house and not listen to their parents. It just ain't happening!
Moral of the story, always discipline your kid, because if you don't someone else will, and you won't like it.
glass of ice cold water works just fine.
that said, man, I remember that treatment from my dad every once in a while. I still hate waking up. I must say that my boss is exceptionally nice to me. I am late much more than the others because of my late waking habit and he could easily get pissed off at me for it (which he does every once in a while I know). I just hate walking in late to work, but there are days I just don't wanna wake up.
morning: it's a bitch.
that said, man, I remember that treatment from my dad every once in a while. I still hate waking up. I must say that my boss is exceptionally nice to me. I am late much more than the others because of my late waking habit and he could easily get pissed off at me for it (which he does every once in a while I know). I just hate walking in late to work, but there are days I just don't wanna wake up.
morning: it's a bitch.
Tickling, it never fails to completely wake you up, believe me. 
I loved to sleep as a teenager.
I loved to sleep as a teenager.
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"It's because there's no father in the house."
"She doesn't discipline them enough."
"It's the moral degredation of society."
Or could it be that it's just because no one likes waking up in the morning?
Of all the issues I could see coming up with parenting, this one seems the most trivial and least worthy of all this overreaction.
"It's because there's no father in the house."
"She doesn't discipline them enough."
"It's the moral degredation of society."
Or could it be that it's just because no one likes waking up in the morning?
Of all the issues I could see coming up with parenting, this one seems the most trivial and least worthy of all this overreaction.
Maybe she should make them go to bed earlier then they currently are?
I've always felt school starting times were ridiculously early, seeing as how the internal clocks of many young people are set to wake up later then older people.
I know my high school started at 8:20 and ended at 3:20, they really should of pushed both of those back at least an hour.
I've always felt school starting times were ridiculously early, seeing as how the internal clocks of many young people are set to wake up later then older people.
I know my high school started at 8:20 and ended at 3:20, they really should of pushed both of those back at least an hour.
I have the same problem, and I don't have anyone to wake me up in the mornings.
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Hm, maybe that's it... I need a fourth alarm. I only have three, and several times I've woken up and found that my clock has been beeping for 45 minutes.
(It probably doesn't help that I'm still awake and it's nearly 2 in the morning, but it took me two and a half hours to get home from work tonight. I finally got to eat dinner around 10:30.)
An alarm on the other side of the room might make that snooze button a little harder to reach.
If a long period of beeping isn't enough, perhaps a clock radio with a more powerfull audio section or a patch cord connecting the clock radio to powerfull stereo.
Know anyone handy enough to recreate one of George Jetson's wake up devices?
May I suggest this http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/ or this http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/ for those of you who have trouble with not waking up when the alarm sounds? x)
Void threats are a sure way to be ignored by kids. My parents did that all the time. Luckily for them, I was a compulsive kid that disciplined himself for misbehaving and I always followed through my own punishment.
It could also be that those kids are experiencing something unpleasant at school (bullies, anxiety, boredom...), and they want to avoid that under the guise of oversleeping.
I normally have an hard time waking up in the morning, but I'm aware that I have more problems going out of bed when I know that the day at work will be a bitch.
It could also be that those kids are experiencing something unpleasant at school (bullies, anxiety, boredom...), and they want to avoid that under the guise of oversleeping.
I normally have an hard time waking up in the morning, but I'm aware that I have more problems going out of bed when I know that the day at work will be a bitch.
Bear in mind that teenagers sleep rhythms are screwed all to hell anyway because of all the biological changes that are going on. They do find it difficult to get to sleep at night and they then find it difficult to get up in the morning.
The playing sick thing though - it's possible there's a reason they're avoiding school (anxiety issues like previously mentioned) but most likely it's just because they can get away with it. If it was me and there weren't actual physical symptoms - fever etc. I'd send 'em to school!
The playing sick thing though - it's possible there's a reason they're avoiding school (anxiety issues like previously mentioned) but most likely it's just because they can get away with it. If it was me and there weren't actual physical symptoms - fever etc. I'd send 'em to school!
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