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So do I... they are 5 and 6...

• strictnein 8y ago
  9 and 6 here. I'm at a point that I can feed them and get them placated (electronics, cartoons, whatever) and go back to sleep for another hour or two on the weekends. So I guess that's a mild improvement. School days they, of course, refuse to get out of bed.
  • cosmie 8y ago
    My 6 year old is a morning person and I am not. She puts on Katie Perry via the Amazon Echo, tidies up and lets the dog out so those excuses don't exist for me to get out of bed, then she goes and crafts/draws/watches a show for a couple hours and enjoys her alone time while I slowly wake up. Unless we have something planned to go do, she gets really irritated if I get out of bed before 9 o'clock and disrupt her morning alone time. She started doing it on her own when she was 4, but it really started to mesh when I realized what she was doing and set it up for her to eat breakfast without my help (set out a cup and bowl/plate, put juice/milk into a smaller container and move it to the bottom shelf of the fridge, set out muffins or cereal or whatever she's into at the time, etc). She also sleeps like a rock, so my night-owl habits don't wake her. It's an absolutely amazing routine and I'm terrified of when she grows out of it.