Wondering how do u get a child now 4 to sleep past 5am in the morning. We have stopped day sleeps and nothing etc and still 5am I'm over the early wakeup calls
Wondering how do u get a child now 4 to sleep past 5am in the morning. We have stopped day sleeps and nothing etc and still 5am I'm over the early wakeup calls
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At 4, either a gro clock or teach them to turn the tv on and let them watch some shows til you’re ready to get up. Tell them they’re not allowed in your room until the gro clock turns to the sun and install gate st your door.
Tell him to come into your bed and cuddle him
We have a Sam the lamb clock. My kids are 2.5 and 4 and know they have to stay in their room quietly until Sam wakes up
At the moment, it's still really dark at that time so I got in and tell them it's still night time and go back to sleep 😂😂 works a treat but once day light savings comes around, it's not gunna work damn it
What time are you putting the child to sleep? Have you tried putting them down for the night 30 mins to 1hr later?
Tell them they can't get up until the sun is up! Then buy blockout curtains for Summer 😂
My kids are 7,5,2 and 1 and they all wake up at 5:30. I have tried all of these suggestions but unfortunately if you child is like mine there isn’t much you can do. They are just early risers
Some kids are just early risers. Maybe focus on a new routine for when they wake up. So they have to stay in their room and read or play quietly until 6:30. Or they can turn on the tv and come into you at xyz
I might be mean but at this age, i did not tollerate this from my kids. They tried it on many a times too.
I figured that i need a certain amount of sleep to be able to function and parent at my best so i taught my kids that they had to stay in bed til i came to get them. They didn't have to stay asleep but they had to stay in bed and be quiet. I set up a few things on the nightstand that i was happy for them to play with while they waited (such as a barbie doll, hotwheels car, a book - no tech though!) and i gradually increased the time i made them wait each morning, e.g. to start with i began at say 5.30, the next morning I'd stretch it to 5.45 etc. Eventually I'd managed to get it to around 6.30 - 7.00 on a good day.
So you were comfortable to leave your 4 year old unsupervised for up to 1.5 hours while you slept?
I did what i had to do to function. I had a baby and toddler as well at that stage who were both still waking several times a night so the alternative would have been getting so sleep deprived that I'd crash my car or absentmindedly walk out in front of traffic (which beleive me, nearly happened).
They also weren't 'unsupervised', they were in bed. As i said, i taught them to stay there til i came to get them which i dont see any difference between that and using a grow clock. More often than not they'd end up falling asleep again anyway once the novelty wore off and they knew i wasn't going to cave and start my day at 5am. It was also a gradual process to get 7am sleep ins too, not like i just decided one day to let them roam the house for an hour and a half while i slept. I also had baby gates blocking access to any dangerous areas should they have gotten up.
So to answer your question in short , yep, pretty comfortable with how i did things. They're also nearly teenagers now and still alive so can't be doing too badly lol!
I have just fixed the same problem with my 5 and 7 year old.Buy an alarm clock (I got a $10 one from Kmart). Cover the minutes up - you just want him to see one number.
For example: 6
So I wrote 6 into card (that covers the minutes up) and mine are only allowed to turn lights on at 6. If they wake up before then, say 4 or 5 they must lay there in the dark and try to fall asleep again.
Most important: no lights on / no getting out of bed until 6 (toilet ok of course).
We were having months of the kids getting up at 5 and they were tired, I was tired. It has only been 4 days and it’s working.
Tell him, you have to train your body to sleep a bit longer.
Goodluck
I have just fixed the same problem with my 5 and 7 year old.Buy an alarm clock (I got a $10 one from Kmart). Cover the minutes up - you just want him to see one number.
For example: 6
So I wrote 6 into card (that covers the minutes up) and mine are only allowed to turn lights on at 6. If they wake up before then, say 4 or 5 they must lay there in the dark and try to fall asleep again.
Most important: no lights on / no getting out of bed until 6 (toilet ok of course).
We were having months of the kids getting up at 5 and they were tired, I was tired. It has only been 4 days and it’s working.
Tell him, you have to train your body to sleep a bit longer.
Goodluck