Early waking of everyone in the house

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Registered: 04-28-2007
Early waking of everyone in the house
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Wed, 08-01-2007 - 8:02am

OK, as he board has been getting kinda heavy these last few days I actually have a very boring yet annoying issue to deal with. Yea, you all cry;)

Wish there was a tired emoticon.

Since forever we have had a problem with Liam getting up at the crack of dawn and thus deciding everyone else needs to be up with him. Think 4:30 am kind of crack of dawn. Over the last year or so (as his bp symptoms have become manageable) we've managed to instill a rule about not leaving his room on vacations and weekends before 7am. He can read time and has a clock in his room. It's been hit and miss really. We've tried the usual, he loses a dollar from his pocket money (a whopping $5 every Friday) for every early wake up we get (one week he lost all his
$$), we've tried withdrawing screen privilages, toys...you name it. Within 24-48 hours it starts all over again.

Now I could actually care less if the child wakes every morning at 5am, but I do take issue with his desperate need to get us and his siblings up at that time. Cian is a sleeper and left alone will sleep until 8:30am. But then Liam gets him up and I have an especially pissy lil' 4 year old by 3pm.

What burns me the most is when we say "Liam....you may not enter your brother's room to wake him," Liam replies "ok", and then I wake at 7:10am to hear Liam at the top of his lungs scripting lines to Cian "you gotta say...., and then you gotta say....." Oh the scripting is getting out of control too.

He knows the rules, he even acts on them at times, but as we get deeper into the summer certain little behaviors are sneaking back in. Like saying he'll do one thing and 5 mins later does the exactly the opposite. I'm exhausted at the best of time (ask Roan's teeth about that, so I need that 4am-7am time to get a few hours uninterrupted sleep. Arrgh, thank GOD school starts Monday. Oh and just found out beeeawch bus driver is back.....grrrrrr

Right time to brew coffee and snatch a chapter o Harry Potter in the loo.

Dee

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Registered: 05-16-2006
Wed, 08-01-2007 - 9:37am

Ya know D, Adam was doing that for awhile too with getting up before God was even awake... and he HAD to have mommy up too. He really doesn't bug DH too much just me.
Finally I think me running him ragged with activites is wearing him down enough to pass out till at least 7am.

Since we medicated him he seems to be leveling out. His scripting is less but still there when he is board or tired.

Oh my....hope this will get better for you. Enjoy the Java and I'm sending you fresh cinnimon rolls hot out the oven. Exta icing too ;-)

--Nora

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Registered: 12-22-2003
Wed, 08-01-2007 - 10:39am

We had this problem with Noah...well, still have it but it's a bit better. He never sleeps past 7:00 a.m. and when he gets up he's not capable of being quiet. He talks loudly to himself, slams cabinet doors as he gets his breakfast, etc. It drives me crazy! We know the early waking is related to his medicine, so there's not much we can do about it. Up'ing his Melatonin has helped a bit, but that's really it.

Okay, so I'm of no help at all, but I'd be happy to sit and drink coffee with you and eat Nora's cinnamon rolls. (Can't help with Harry Potter. Haven't read any of them. LOL)

Amy

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