Working parents - what time do you wake up?

[Anonymous]

6:45. Kids get out of bed at 7 (usually are up before then but entertain themselves in their room). I don't leave for the office/preschool drop-off until 8:55 after helping older kids log on for screen school. I don't work out even though I should. The fifteen minutes gives me just enough time to get ready myself before the kids want help getting breakfast.

[Anonymous]

I wake up when my 5 year old wakes me, which is between 6:00 and 6:30.

On weekends I tell him to go downstairs and play and please come back later, and I stay in bed until about 7:30 usually.

I literally have not set an alarm clock in over 5 years!

[Anonymous]

I wake up at 6, 5:30 if I want to exercise before work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7-8am, no alarm.

Without having to pack lunch or commute, all of us can sleep in much longer. Of course, we then have to run around and get fed and jump on our relevant devices, but seems worth it.

+1

If DD6 wakes up before we do, she plays alone or watches TV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5-ish. Much prefer having the time to myself in the morning, rather than at the end of the day when I'm wiped.

I'm not really sure the morning person v. night owl tendency can be changed, tough. People seem to be naturally one or the other.

Yeah, I'm a night owl and usually don't get up til 8:30 or 9 am since I've been remote working (which I was already doing before the pandemic). Our toddler is like me and will sleep til 11 on the weekends if given the chance; during the week, she gets up at 9 am when the nanny comes. DH on the other hand is an early bird and gets up around 6 or 7 am on his own. So he gets quiet time in the morning and I get it in the late evening, which works for us. I sort of envy early birds, though. The times I've been up for sunrise have been so nice - and the world tends to view early birds with a kinder eye.

Im up at 8. Funny thing is I used to be a morning person before kids. I would be up at 5 or 6 latest. I think with kids and a slower metabolism, I’ve turned into a night owl. I start work at 9, after making breakfast and making sure the kids are ready for their zoom. I work until about 6, then it’s dinner, outside time with kids. I purr them to bed and stay up until midnight, which was unheard of before. I still love when I can wake up early, there is sense of peaceful energy at that time, but my bed calls me back like a siren. I try every morning to get up, but I can’t seem to break the cycle.

[Anonymous]

Pre-covid, 6:15 am at the latest to get everyone up, dressed, fed and out the door by 8 am.
First few months of covid, 8 am or so. Two ES kids with 9:20 start times.
Since September, I am now up at 7 am to get up my now-MS kid. Once I know he is up, I head out for my run before showering and getting ready for the work day from my living room.
I am naturally a night owl, but love this schedule of getting a workout in before I start my day. So much more efficient!

[Anonymous]

Now 6:45. When used to exercise in the morning used to wake up at 5:30 (need to get back to it). Before working from home, used to wake up at 5:45 to get ready for schools / work (no time for exercise back then).

[Anonymous]

5:30 AM. I feed the dogs, toast a frozen waffle, and am on my Peloton by 6 AM. DH wakes up around 7:30. DS, 8, is up at 6:30 or so.

DS reads in his room until 7, then starts to get ready for school. I help him with breakfast when I come up from working out, around 7:15. DH sleeps until 7:30.

During non-COVID times, I wake up at 5:30 and leave for the office at 6:00. I get home from work around 2:30 and start my work out. DS is out of school at 3:30. On the days he walks home with another adult, I do an hour spin. On the days I walk the kids home, I do 45 minutes of spin. I am hoping that he is going to be comfortable walking solo or with friends and no adult when we go back to school. We know he is ready but he is less certain. DH takes care of the morning routing and comes home around 7 PM.

[Anonymous]

5:20.

My kids are back full time, but we have to be out the door by 7:20 am, so just dealing with them and the morning routine (they get up at 6:30) means I get up early enough to eat breakfast alone. Not an AM person but if I don't get my head in the game before they are up, it's a bad scene. I work out between 7:30 and 9 and then start work. I work off and on throughout the evening as needed and go to bed around 11, although I try to get there earlier.

But even when kids were home, I got up at 5:30 so I could work out and get organized before they got up around 8. There just aren't enough hours in the day when you're a working parent.

[Anonymous]

5:15. I workout (a daily habit for decades, at this point), and am back around 7/7:30 to get the kids organized and eating breakfast, etc.

I’m very much a morning person by nature, though, so this works for me. If I weren’t, I don’t think it would.

[Anonymous]

8. Our toddler wakes at 6:30 or 7 but will usually play quietly in her room until 8.

I used to get up at 6:30 and would love to go back to doing that again. I used to get an hour or so of work plus a run in before the day really started and it was great.

I've been sleeping in during Covid because I'm depressed and tired all the time. I've tried setting an alarm (which I never had to do before) to help me get up, but I just shut it off and go back to sleep. I've tried shifting my diet, going to bed earlier, and exercising more, but nothing works. I think my body has just decided I need an extra 90 minutes of sleep to deal with everything and refuses to accept any other arrangement.

[Anonymous]

7:30. My 4the grader gets herself ready and makes her own breakfast before school starts at 8:50. I get online at 8 for work.

[Anonymous]

7:30 at the moment. Our new baby is my alarm clock. Hubs gets up earlier and gets my son off to school (they leave at 7:45). I feed baby and get older daughter ready for pre-k. Hubs takes her when he gets back from son’s school around 8:20. Everyone is working by 8:45/9. I take an exercise break during the day usually. Hubs goes to gym during dinner time.

[Anonymous]

I’m woken by DH between 6:30 and 7 with coffee. It’s the only romantic thing he does.

[Anonymous]

6:30-7

Last year, when my 7th grader had to get up at 6 to catch a 6:30 bus, I was up at 6 with him. This aspect of DL is awesome!