No ideas here sorry. My oldest will be 7 in January and wakes at 5am every morning. Will not sleep in ever!!
We make him go to bed earlier, so at least he gets about 10 or 11 hours sleep. We went out the other night and the kids didn't get to sleep until 9pm - we thought yippeeee they'll sleep in, but nope ds was still up at 5.
I'm in the same boat as Arimeh. Mine is 7.5 and has always been an early riser. SHe just gets up and potters around quietly. Has done so since she was 3. She goes to bed with the little kids at 6-6.30. I don't care if she doesn't go straight to sleep, as long as she's 'resting', but usually she does go to sleep pretty quickly.
Lol, ok, at least we're not the only ones in this boat haha! I just had my sister & her two kids stay with us and she was going on about how it's detrimental to his health to be waking so early etc.. Kind of made me nervous. Her kids aren't perfect, but did I tell her? No! Grrr family dynamics!
Nope...between Arimeh and myself we have two highly intelligent cookies and I can assure you it won't stunt their growth either as my 7yo is as tall as your average 10yo and then some.
Sadly my daughter is the same, no matter what time we put her to bed it's 5:30 wake up. I have told her that she needs to be quiet until 6am so she usually plays or reads or colours in. anything thats quiet.
I think we naturally wake earlier in the warmer months because the sun comes up early. Block out curtains would be the best idea. Are you allowed to put a curtain rod up and have a set of curtains as well as blinds?
Tinks, I am off to their bedroom today to sort something out haha... I'm sitting in my room this morning planning what I can do here to block out the sun... They boys room currently has a blockout roller blind, but the sunlight gets in around the sides, so I may just put strips of alfoil around the edges of the window, so I can still let some natural light in through the centre of the window... Ah the things we do for another hour of sleep
You can buy curtain rods that just push into the window frame...kind of on a spring I guess. No marks and easily removed. We got cheapish kids blockout curtains from Spotlight on special - about $80 for two double sets I think. DS' wake ups went from 4:30am with the sun to just before 7am last Summer
I have two very early risers too, DS2 (who is almost 3) and DD (who will be 7 in April). The three of my kids are all in bed at 7pm, and DD and DS2 wake up at 5am. That is a sleep in from the 4am it was for a long time, until DLS started recently. DS1 is my best sleeper, and sleeps until about 6.30am.
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