No 11 is not too young.My 12 1/2 year old gets up with an alarm clock or if she forgets to set it she gets out of bed as soon as I call her.Your dd definatly isn't to young to ste up consequences if she is not up when you call or or if she is not ready in time when her clock goes off.My dd has been getting up within 5 mins of when I called her since kdg.Would it help if you called her or if she set alarm 30 mins before she had to be up,then that way she can slowly wake up since your dd seems to need more time to get going in the am.I know I do,I can not just jump out of bed,so I set my alarm for 6,which is when Gabby gets up,but I pretty much stay in bed unil 6:45,when I get up to get Gabby bkfst and see her off each morning.At your dd's age it is sometimes harder to fall alseep at night,but 9:30 is early enough to be in bed,so I doubt it is lack of sleep,some kids are just harder to get up.So far I have been luckey with Gab becasue she can just jump out of bed as soon as called.It is harder in the winter than it is in the summer,since it is still dark out when she gets up.However she is up before me every day.SHe really does not need to be up at 6,but she likes to do her hair.
11 is not too young to set an alarm clock. I know of kids that have done so since Kindergarten.
Unfortunately, doesn't work with Aly. She sleeps right through it...doesn't even roll over. (But she's not hard to wake up, believe it or not...I just whisper in her ear that it's time to get up, and she walks to the bathroom.)
Definitely not too young. My daughter has been getting up to her own alarm clock since first grade.
That said, it sounds like this is more about personality than age!
I think you are on the right track with the earlier bed time. Most kids don't get enough sleep - - and that can be a big part of not getting up. I'm not sure what time you are trying to wake her up - - but a 9:30 bed time seems late to me. My 7th grader is in bed by 9:00, because the bus comes before 7am and she simply needs to be to get aough sleep.
Is there some way that you can back off the process entirely? She knows that you will do whatever it takes to get her up and ready, so she's relying on that.
OK, I have a 13 yr old who can't wake up to an alarm clock--we have tried both the beeps and radio. He literally sleeps right through it. I try to make him go to bed earlier, but he might be lying there in bed but can't go to sleep. Of course everyone in the family is pretty much a night owl and hates to get up in the a.m. I am hoping that he can manage to get himself up by 9th grade since he will have to get the bus an hour earlier than he does now--now it's 7:45 and h.s. it's 6:45. I don't want to have to get up that early!
If your DD is awake, then the not waking up isn't the problem, so it really wouldn't matter if it was an alarm or you waking her, it's that she doesn't want to get up. Therefore, I think a clock in her room would remind her of when it's time to get up, maybe she can put on the radio & listen to it for 10 mins before she actually has to get out of bed. Then it would get out of a lot of struggle.
By the way, some people even when they are older still have problems--my college roommate couldn't wake up to an alarm unless it was so loud that it scared me to death. She said that in the summer time, sometimes she was at her family's beach house alone and her boss would have to call & wake her up. Now otherwise, she was very responsible.
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11 isn't too young--we've been using an alarm clock with my now ten-year-old since she started school.
11 is not too young to set an alarm clock. I know of kids that have done so since Kindergarten.
Unfortunately, doesn't work with Aly. She sleeps right through it...doesn't even roll over. (But she's not hard to wake up, believe it or not...I just whisper in her ear that it's time to get up, and she walks to the bathroom.)
oh, that is so sweet.
All I use now is my phone, too.
I think this is too old for you to need to use waking techniques like cold washcloths.
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Definitely not too young.
My daughter has been getting up to her own alarm clock since first grade.
That said, it sounds like this is more about personality than age!
I think you are on the right track with the earlier bed time.
Most kids don't get enough sleep - - and that can be a big part of not getting up.
I'm not sure what time you are trying to wake her up - - but a 9:30 bed time seems late to me.
My 7th grader is in bed by 9:00, because the bus comes before 7am and she simply needs to be to get aough sleep.
Is there some way that you can back off the process entirely?
She knows that you will do whatever it takes to get her up and ready, so she's relying on that.
Thank you all for the great advice!
OK, I have a 13 yr old who can't wake up to an alarm clock--we have tried both the beeps and radio. He literally sleeps right through it. I try to make him go to bed earlier, but he might be lying there in bed but can't go to sleep. Of course everyone in the family is pretty much a night owl and hates to get up in the a.m. I am hoping that he can manage to get himself up by 9th grade since he will have to get the bus an hour earlier than he does now--now it's 7:45 and h.s. it's 6:45. I don't want to have to get up that early!
If your DD is awake, then the not waking up isn't the problem, so it really wouldn't matter if it was an alarm or you waking her, it's that she doesn't want to get up. Therefore, I think a clock in her room would remind her of when it's time to get up, maybe she can put on the radio & listen to it for 10 mins before she actually has to get out of bed. Then it would get out of a lot of struggle.
By the way, some people even when they are older still have problems--my college roommate couldn't wake up to an alarm unless it was so loud that it scared me to death. She said that in the summer time, sometimes she was at her family's beach house alone and her boss would have to call & wake her up. Now otherwise, she was very responsible.
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