Do you wake up when your kids do on weekends? If not, what do your kids do until you awake? I'm looking for ideas that exclude watching T.V. or playing video games if at all possible =-)
95% of the time I wake up before the kids but there has been a couple of occasions so just wondering about what others do.
My youngest who wakes much earlier then my other child, is 5 years old.
Thanks everyone! The reason I wanted suggestions other than T.V. is because we have a 2-story home with no televisions upstairs. I would prefer that my 5 y/o not be downstairs all by himself as our house is such that when you are downstairs it is totally excluded from the upstairs. Our computer is in our den downstairs.
I always let them watch TV or play video games and when I get up they are done watching TV and playing video games for the day. That way I don't have to listen to the noise....
Yeah I'm thinking those are the special occasions that TV and video games are good for. They aren't interacting, they aren't fighting. They aren't getting into things they shouldn't be...
Yeah, that's exactly why you own a TV - so you can sleep in on Saturday. It won't scar them for life to watch Phineas & Ferb for an hour while you catch up on your beauty sleep.
I leave the cereal out on the counter the night before and they get their own cereal and watch TV quietly until we wake up. Works for us!
This is why God invented tv's. LOL
My son has no qualms about barging into the bedroom the minute he wakes up--and he has always done this, so unless O. of us is already up and runs interference, when he's up--we're up.
My boys love legos and books where they have to search for things like Where's waldo.
I would be so happy if my kids let me sleep in on the weekends that I wouldn't care if they watched TV or played video games! Better I would get to sleep in and be happy! I believe parenthood is all about survival, and if them watching TV enables me to sleep in and "survive," then I am all for it!
I just read your "so what happened." Put a TV upstairs!!!!!!!!!
My three year old (almost four) wakes up 30 - 60min earlier than the rest of us. She gets to get a snack (a piece of fruit/dry cereal), take off her pull up, get dressed (her favorite - you should see some of her outfits) and then play quietly by herself until my two year old (not a morning person!) wakes up. That's her time; big kid time - and she revels in it. It's the one time of the day where she gets ALL of the toys to herself and *feels* totally in control, which she loves. We have a small house and I go from deep sleep to light sleep when I hear her wake up. I can hear her singing to herself, opening her drawers, etc, but I get to lay in bed and get up slowly, which I really appreciate.
I sleep in whenever possible, there is nothing wrong with tv and or video games for an hour or two on a Sat morning. I love my sleep and am up early all week. Our 3 kids get up and do their own thing, of course, they are now 16,14 and 9, and it is usually only our 9 year old up before me. But he gets the pick of tv shows and we are all happy that way. This has been happening for awhile, many years in fact.
I am a night owl, and consequently love to sleep in. It kills me to have to wake up at 6am 5 days a week to get the kids to school. Because of this, Saturday is "Don't wake Mommy even if the house is on fire" day.
My two girls (ages 9 & 6) must play quietly until I wake up. There is no unsupervised TV or computer time in our house, so they almost always hang out in their rooms & play with their toys, read a book, color, play their Nintendo DS, or write in their journals. They can do almost anything they want, as long as it's QUIET. :-)
Our daughter either looked at books or watched videos.
We had breakfast foods she could get to herself..
The moment she heard kids outside playing we had to get up..
I don't know the ages of your kiddos but...I say teach them to cook and let them make you breakfast in bed. LOL. My kids are little so they still wake me up as soon as one of them is awake.
my kids watch tv or play video games. if i can sleep, and they don't bug me they can do what ever they want.
My kids were allowed to only watch PBS or Noggin - great stations for little ones if they wake up before me. I also had granola bars and Nutrigrain Fruit bars, so they could snack on something small until I wake up. I am such a light sleeper that it is rare that I sleep in much after they are awake. I agree with everyone, get a TV upstairs, so you know they will be close.
I wake up when my children (3.5 and 1.5) do. Sometimes I'll get my daughter a drink and put on a 1/2 hour cartoon then lay back down, but then my son will usually wake up within 10 minutes!
My daughter is jst 21 months she just jumps on the bed until i wake up :) but you can teach them some simple physical excercise. this will help to keep them busy n fit.
My son is only 3 1/2 but is an early riser. We got him a lamp that he can turn on himself and he has a clock in his room. I tell him that he has to stay in his room until there is a 6 on the clock (I wish it was 7!). He reads books, plays with his train, plays music, colors... and at the stroke of 6, he calls for me :-)
My husband and I trade off on the weekend days getting up with the kids, so I can at least stay in bed and rest while my husband is up early with the kids. Good luck!
My daughter, 5, is an early riser. She is up at 545am during the week, so it's part of her pattern to wake up early.....and it SUCKS on the weekends.
I have a clock in her room and tell her she can't get out of bed till 6am. At 6am she can get up and play quietly in her room (we had to talk about this a few times before she finally got the "quietly" part). Sure, I'm awake, but I'm still in bed and dozing. At 7am, she is allowed to get a snack (always asks me if the one she choose is ok before eating it) and climb in my bed to eat it and watch tv. Usually by 8am I am up and out of bed then.
Get another tv upstairs! LOL! I am just kidding but only sort of. The only way we get a little sleep on the weekends is to let our kids watch tv either in bed with us while we sleep next to them, or one of us goes downstairs for a minute and sets them up on the living room couch. But we have a split level so the "downstairs" is very close to us.
