does anyone have trouble with this my son goes to bed no later then 8 he is five and he sleeps all through the night but i have so much trouble getting him up to go to school what can i do about this.
2006-07-09 17:28:12 · 21 answers · asked by baby 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
Are you SURE 100% positive he is SLEEPING through the night?
Try putting him to be an hour later and see what happens. He might be getting TOO much sleep OR not getting enough REM sleep.
He also could be waking up throughout the night thus making it difficult for him to wake up in the morning.
2006-07-09 17:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is 5 1/2 and I occasionally run into this. She would stay up all night if I let her, and sleep until noon. Usually, I put her to bed at 8 (during the school year), but since it's summer I've been using staying up until 8:30 (occasionally even 9!) as a reward. My only restriction has been that if I have trouble getting her up in the morning, that will be the end of that reward. She's been trying really hard because she likes "staying up late".
I did go through a period where she was almost impossible to move in the morning, though. I eventually resorted to an egg-timer (5 minutes to get dressed, 5 minutes to make bed/brush teeth, etc, etc) and one time even took her to day care in her PJs and handed them a bag. Well, they refused to dress her too, and she was pretty embarrassed. I never had that particular problem again.
2006-07-12 14:59:33 · answer #2 · answered by Quilt4Rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 5 year old goes to bed at 7 (since 9 months old) and takes a nap at noon, sleeps through the night and sometimes doesn't want to get up. Some people say they are getting too much sleep, but I thnk it's enough. Just make sure you get the routine down with them so they know what they have to do, maybe even give him an alarm that he can use like a big boy to let him know it's time to get up. Worked for mine. As soon as I go in the room and tell er it's time for school anyways...she gets excited on her own and ready to go!
2006-07-16 09:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He may just need a lot of sleep. The Journal of Pediatrics recently released a report that said that kids need an average (meaning some more some less) of 11 hours of sleep till they're at least the age of 14!! That may seem like a lot, but kids grow, their brains are developing, and there's a bunch of stuff that is going on that the body needs to handle that it cannot do when the kid's awake.
My 13 yo - if allowed to do so - will sleep 12-13 hours at a stretch.
2006-07-10 13:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by Brutally Honest 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put him to bed at 7. He is only 5 even this could be too late after having dealt with a big day of school. My kids bed time in Prep was 6.30 and they would sleep till 7am. They are now 7 and go to bed at 7pm read till 7.30, though as they had a couple of late nights on the week-end ( today( Monday) was a curriculum day) tonight they are in bed now with lights out. It is 7.10pm
2006-07-10 05:12:33 · answer #5 · answered by Rachel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what time does he get up? maybe he doesn't like school does he have trouble getting up on weekends? I suggest you try to allow some extra time in the morning for something fun a cartoon or a quick game or something then the night before when you say goodnight mention the next days activity with him this way he will have something to look forward to....good luck
2006-07-11 14:32:18 · answer #6 · answered by aintdatsumshet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try adjusting what time you put him to bed, also have an ears-nose-throat doctor look at him. My daughter was also very hard to wake up in the morning, she was having problems with snoring that was making her sleep really hard, and had a monster of a time waking her up in the morning. My daugher ended up needing surgery, tonsils and adnoids out to prevent the snoring. This worked for me. But while we were waiting for her to have the surgery, her pediatrician said that she needs to be in bed by 8:30am at the latest, due to her needed to be up at 7:00am.
2006-07-13 04:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Someonesmommy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answers below are all good ones and if those don't work I had trouble with my son at that age he just seemed to drag and be tired no matter what...well come to find out he was anemic and that caused him to be more tired more cold causing him to toss and turn. Some extra vitamins and iron intake really helped him out...good luck!
2006-07-10 07:00:47 · answer #8 · answered by MyBizNez 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is very heard to wake up at times so many times I resort to putting her to bed about 1/2 hour earlier than usual.
It does help some.
But what I feel helps the most is me telling her that she WILL be waking up at such and such time.
Then i gently wake her up about 5 min b4 that time.
I also make sure that I am wide awake myself b4 I try to wake my daughters up.
2006-07-13 00:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by nia93me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cold Water
2006-07-16 17:01:56 · answer #10 · answered by dozerlllll 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋