Its summer....they Should Sleep Later....

My 6 year old wakes up around 8 in the summer. Sometimes a little sooner. He also goes to bed between 8:30-9:00.

Do they have black out curtains in their windows to help keep their rooms darker? My kids will get up early if they don't have themup because their rooms get so bright early. Mine sleep roughly 8-8. Are they getting enough of exercise? Heat doesn't seem to bother kids mine are outside almost all day with plenty of ice water.

Edited: maybe.....I see you're in MA 8/26 is free admission day into old Sturbridge village :)
Maybe try some chamomile tea if they'll drink it, some very calm activities an hour or so before bedtime, no tv during that time other than that I don't know, maybe they are over tired when they go to bed overtired kids don't sleep as well

Might help to really darken the room, but I know what you mean. My 2 year old tends to get up between 7 and 7:30 every morning no matter what time he goes to bed. (Although he's still asleep right now. Shhhhh! Don't wake him!) My 5 year old likes to sleep in, so I'll have to begin adjusting his bed & wake up times next week so that we're ready for Kindergarten the following week.

I really think it has to do with the sun. With my 5 year old, it can be tough to get him to bed because he knows it's not dark out. With my 2 year old, the sun wakes him up in the morning. I love the days when it's storming in the morning, because they both sleep in on those days.

We've made the boys' room very dark (dark shades). (The problem with our 2 year old is that he sometimes comes to our room in the middle of the night, and we don't have dark shades.) In the evening, I close all the curtains, turn out most lights, turn on the fans for white noise, usher them into the tub and do as much of our bedtime routine as possible in the interior rooms of the house.

As the days grow shorter, it usually gets easier for me. Hang in there!

Oops, didn't read your whole post. You could try an earlier bed time, because those are just crazy wake up times. Also, I would try to extend the 2 year old's nap. A nap that is just 30 minutes long is actually more of a tease than anything else. He just barely has a chance to settle down and then wakes up. It's not really a quality nap. Perhaps he's overtired. Might help to do the nap earlier in the day. Good luck!

Oh, you poor thing! My 3 year old is in bed at 9pm and will sleep until about 8 or 9am. We just recently started getting her up at 7am so that I can work from home, but now she takes a nap for about an hour and a half.

Well... for nearly a month now, my 9yo has been waking up at noon give or take an hour.

The piece of info you can be grateful for, however, is that he's often not actually asleep until 1am-4am, and has made it to 6am more than a few times. Which means *I'm* not getting to sleep until 60 minutes after him. My son has been having a lot of breathing issues (spent most of spring, and part of summer in the hospital). He's afraid of going to sleep, because he's afraid of

- not waking up
- waking up and having to go back to the hospital
- nightmares of me and his nana/papa dying

He also has 2 or 3 bad nights a week (where he's going blue, and I have to stay up to monitor him / admin meds).

Whats's NICE is that he's hit the hormonal stage where going to sleep later means he sleeps in later. Prior to this year, the later he went to sleep, the earlier he'd wake up. THESE days if he's asleep at 1 or 2am, he sleeps until 11 or noon. Just last year, going to sleep at 1am would have meant he'd be getting up at 4am or 5 am (usual bedtime in summer is 11pm-9am)

My son (he's 12) would like to sleep in late in the morning, but that means he'll be up past midnight at night.
The wage earners (me and my husband) need early to bed and early to rise and it's easier if we all stick to the same schedule.
If we stay up till midnight on the weekends we end up suffering something awful for it come Monday, so we try to stay on the same schedule all week.
We don't always succeed, but we try.
We go to bed 9-ish, The adults are up 5:30 and our son rises 6-ish.
When my son has a growth spurt (and he's coming up on one now), he'll sometimes grab an hour nap when he comes home from day camp.

During this time of the year, I would hang quilts over the windows.. Of course during the day, I clipped them up to allow the sun in, but otherwise our daughter could not sleep with the sun outside, "because it is still daytime! "

Some children just do not need as much sleep, but once they hit a growing spurt they cannot get enough sleep.

AMEN!

My son USED to sleep until 8am...but now we have two and when my daughter wakes up at 6AM---he follows soon after.

I try to let her cry a bit (she's 18mo), but she just wakes him up. She also has never played in her crib when she wakes up-it's like her eyes open, she springs up and starts yelling---???

To add insult to injurt they come in our room and take over the bed to watch tv, because clearly they are still tired!

And to think -in a few years we won't be able to get them out of bed!

My 5 1/2 year old twins are the same...no matter what time they go to bed...7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., they are up at 7 a.m. or earlier! One falls asleep right away, the other takes up to an hour to fall asleep. The early sleeper awakes first and wakes up the other one. We have tried white noise, darkening shades, cooler temp, warmer temp, nothing seems to matter. We are looking for a new home and my goal is enough bedrooms for them to have their own rooms. I am hoping that will help!