Help! My 13 yr old hates waking up in morning!!!?

Question

Trying to get my 13 yr old son up for school is a huge challenge. It often results in him finally walking out the door minutes before the bus gets here.

Thats just with throwing clothes on and running to the stop. I am tired of fighting in the mornings. I even went and got a whistle to blow in the morning. All he does is cover his head.

So if anyone has any suggestions. He claims he don't get enough sleep, 9:30pm is his bed time.
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Honestly I don't think he goes to sleep or is asleep at 9:30pm. Maybe I wish he was asleep.

Thanks everyone, actually he don't have computer, cell phone etc in his room. I know he don't sneak out or watch TV, he sleeps with his door cracked so we end up having to walk by there. Trust me if there was anything amuck aka him watching tv etc I would have mentioned it.

I do like the cold water on the plastic bedcover idea. I guess I'm to that point, yet again I like the 3 alarm clocks thing.

Answer 1

being 13 he is in need of about 12 hours of sleep per 24 hour period. I know this sounds like a ton but teenagers are much like babies in their development processes. If he is too tired in the morning he needs to 1. take a cat nap after school and 2. go to bed by 9 lights out no t.v. etc. It is normal for him to be difficult to get up in the morning. I remember those days well! It will change after his hormones settle down a little bit.

Answer 2

Wow. My bedtime is 9:30 too. I wake up grumpy.
Maybe he has a hard time falling asleep like me. It takes me about an hour to fall asleep. Or maybe he's not even sleeping. Maybe when you tell him to go to bed, he closes his door and watches tv, or plays with his games. (thats what i do =P)
check up on him once in a while. My parents use to always do that.
In the morning is a different thing. Make him lay out is clothes in the morning so he doesn't have to take a long time to find clothes. And tell him to leave the house five minutes or ten minutes early to walk to the stop.

Maybe you should tell him that if he doesn't wake up in the morning when he's supposed to, you'll make his bedtime earlier so he has more time to sleep. I bet he'll think about giving you so much problems.

If he still doesn't listen, by him an alarm clock, heck by yourself a set of drums to wake him up!
Or make him take a shower in the morning and put kinda cold water, that always wakes me up.

i don't know what else to say.

Answer 3

Im 13 and i sometimes find waking up in the morning hard. He might go on the computer, text people, read or watch tv if he has any of these things in his room but putting him to bed earlier isnt the solution - he will just sleep in longer to annoy you. You could remove these items or just give him a really loud alarm.

But I think i often feel tired in the morning because of the lack of iron in my diet. If your son eats more foods containing iron like dried apricots, red meat, broccoli and fortified breakfast cereals he would get more iron and feel less tired. However, if he does have fortified cereal for breakfast, make sure he doesnt drink tea or coffee with this as it stops the body absorbing the iron. Fruit juices containing citric acid like orange juice help the body to absorb the acid so he should drink that instead.

hope i helped!

Answer 4

What is he doing about 30 min-1 hour prior to bed. Try having a bit of wind down time. Sit and read with him, a warm bath, and there are other ideas. I myself find depending on what I have been doing, computer games, some tv etc.,can't fall asleep either. I think I was also in bed by 8:30 at the latest when I was that age, even on weekends. If you don't have one make a bed time and stick to it, weekend or not.

Answer 5

First of all, make him go to bed earlier. Cut off caffiene HOURS before bed and sugar and any other stimulant that may be keeping him awake. Take away the tv, computer, and video games that he undoubtably hypes his mind up on before bed too. Also have him lay out his clothes and everything the night before so it's an easy grab and go. You can also try keeping energy bars or breakfast bars in his backpack for those days he missed breaskfast. A kid who missed breaskfast does poorly in school and is tired and more apt to drink sugar and eat candy for fuel during the day than one who ate a breakfast of some kind.

Answer 6

Are you positive that he's really going to sleep at 9:30? Does he have a computer in his room? If so you need to take it out. Make sure there's nothing he could be doing at night to make his stay up later and be sleep deprived in the morning.

Hope this helps!!

Bells

Answer 7

I am 13 years old and i go to bed at 10.00 and get up at 6.00 in the morning for an early morning jog, getting into a habit where you get up way before school starts means that you are more awake for school because you do not act like you have only just got up. wait until a holiday and tell your son that he can stay up until every hour, he will get tired quickly and find the bed time that is suitable for him. also my mum used to sing to me in the morning so i got up, I'm telling you the noise made me get up quick sharp.

Answer 8

Invest in a plastic slip cover for the mattress, a plastic pitcher and ice. Tell your son what will happen. Give him one warning to get out of bed. Second warning is the pitcher of ice water. It's hard to sleep in a wet , cold bed. From there, he gets hustled into the shower with you standing over him. You have his clothes (your choices of clothes) ready and out the door he goes. Repeat as necessary.

Answer 9

make him go to sleep at 8. i think 9:30 is plenty early 4 a 13 yr old but he wont like havin to go to bed early. tell him if he gets up at a decent time, then he can go to sleep @ 9:30 again. i always make my kids breakfast, that motivates them to get up so they can have time to eat. it should only take like 15 minutes. bacon and canned cinnamon rolls/biscuits, instant oatmeal n toast, my mom use to snatch the covers off my brother and spray him with a spray bottle of water, blast some of his music while ur at it , make him get his clothes ready @ night.. be consistent

Answer 10

well, I am 14 and I also dislike waking up to go to school. what gets me up is my alarm clock. If that doesn't work for him, get about 3 alarm clocks (they don't have to be expensive) and put them all around his room and set them to the same time. this way, he will have to wake up to turn them all off. if he covers his head, take the pillow away from him because he will still be half unconscious to fight back. my alarm clock gets me very mad, and I can't sleep when I'm mad, so it all works out for me.