Non confrontational ways...

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Registered: 06-04-2003
Non confrontational ways...
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Mon, 05-01-2006 - 4:50pm
To help DD to get up in the AM. Other than throwing water in face, yelling etc. Can you offer any advice that has worked well for you. I try to wake her up with plenty of time to spare, but she always puts getting up till the last possible minute, ending up racing out of the house trying to beat the clock. What can I do? I am really getting tired of holding a 2-3 round argument just to get her to get up and ready for school. She insists that she is trying but I just don't see it!

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Registered: 12-28-2004
Tue, 05-02-2006 - 12:05pm

Consequences...

She has to set her own alarm - you can try to wake her 10 minutes before the time hers is set for. If you have to call her after her alarm goes off, her bedtime is moved up 15 minutes - keep it up each time. Wait 5 minutes and repeat. When she is going to bed when she gets home from school (kidding!) she may get the message.

It sounds juvenile, but it works.

The other option is to let her sleep in and be late for school - after so many tardies, she would probably have detention.

Good luck - I am lucky that my easy to wake daughter is my oldest and gets the rest of us up!

Mom to Emily (18), Conor (17) and Hannah (12)
Wife to David - 8/20/88

 

 

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Registered: 06-04-2003
Tue, 05-02-2006 - 12:07pm
Been there done that! It affects her but not enough to change her ways...I have taken away computer, phone, cell, after school "hang out" times...everything more than once. I just cant seem to find what will motivate her to change her ways. Even sending her to sleep earlier. It just doesnt work.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-02-2006 - 1:02pm
Just wondering...is she making *you* late, or do y'all actually leave on time, it's just that she's rushing around? My kids know I leave at a certain time every morning. I'm lucky in the fact that we are close enough, they could walk to school if they missed their ride (me). Otherwise, they had to go out the door with me at *my* time, regardless of state-of-dress. I cannot tell you how many times my younger ds dressed for school in the car. He especially hated when he had his socks on but not his shoes and his socks would get wet from the dew on the grass. He was always so ticked if he didn't have time to fix his hair. (Yes, this is a *boy*! He's pickier than most girls I know! LOL) He now gets up the second time I call him. I allow him that 1st call as his snooze alarm. :) If I have to go back in a third time (and I still do on occasion) he knows from the sound of my voice and the fact that this is his *third* call, and he flys thru the house getting ready. I don't really care if he has to rush or not, just as long as *I* leave my house on time. If your dd is not making you late, then I would just let her rush. :)
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Registered: 09-29-2004
Tue, 05-02-2006 - 2:55pm
Set the time on her alarm clock 15 minutes early then it should be.

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