14 yo won't get up in the morning
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| Fri, 08-24-2007 - 7:28am |
My son is 14 and he is just terrible in the morning. He has been this way his entire life so it is not a teen thing although that may contribute. My husband and daughter (8 yo) are terrible as well, so it is probably at least a little bit genetic. This year for high school he will need to catch the bus at 6:30 AM so I am already nervous. He has trouble getting out of bed to begin with and then he goes SO slow. He takes a shower and when he gets out he lays on the bathroom floor sometimes for 10 minutes. Then he goes to his room and lays on the floor there. Then he comes downstairs and just generally acts comatose. He does not go to bed late.
As I said my husband and daughter are also bad about getting up, but once they get out of bed they move at a slow but steady pace. My son drives me crazy because he doesn't keep moving on his own at any point in the process.
I am just so tired of continually prodding him in the morning. Any suggestions about how to get him moving? I want him to learn personal responsibility. I don't want to be responsible for getting him moving in the morning.
Thanks,
Robin

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Exactly what type of approach are you thinking of going with it?
If it were an attitude problem he was having (no, I'm not getting up and you can't make me), I'd have a definite answer for you, but that's obviously not what you're dealing with (thank goodness for you). (And in that case, I'd say get in touch with a truancy officer and find a way to get the officer to talk to him/scare him into his senses.)
If you really want to go with teaching him the responsibility aspect....you could probably still go the truancy officer way, though that's kind of harsh. So, what about talking with his school's guidance counselor? He/she could still discuss truancy and exactly what truancy officers do and how he could fail with so many unexcused absences and tardies.
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