Family annoyed I play audiobook to get them out of bed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a counter-argument to all those who say “oh it annoyed us then but now we laugh about it!”

I had a meeting every day before school so I had to be up at 6am. I set my alarm daily but my mom invariably decided it was her job to wake me yp before my alarm went off. She would come in 5-10 minutes before I actually needed to be up singing or yelling or turning on lights and I hated it and I still resent it now and think it is emblematic of her entire approach to parenting. Everything on her terms 100% of the time even when there is no reason for her to be involved at all. I drove myself to these meetings so she didn’t even need to be out of bed—she just needed every aspect of my life to be about her.

I know I am the exception, but if you are waking your kids up daily in an annoying way, I hope it is after having had a conversation about what time they think they need to wake up and asking how they would like to take responsibility for getting themselves up.

My Dad used to joyously chip 'Have Fun' as I went out the door to HS...knowing I was miserable about getting up and hated school. He thought it was funny. It still annoys me to think about. Why do parents think annoying their kids is funny.

[Anonymous]

I think this is amazing. Also, as a parent of a 2 YO, It's strangely nice to imagine having to wake up our child...

[Anonymous]

They should be getting their own butts out of bed, but since they don't more power to you. Maybe up your game with more embarrassing books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a counter-argument to all those who say “oh it annoyed us then but now we laugh about it!”

I had a meeting every day before school so I had to be up at 6am. I set my alarm daily but my mom invariably decided it was her job to wake me yp before my alarm went off. She would come in 5-10 minutes before I actually needed to be up singing or yelling or turning on lights and I hated it and I still resent it now and think it is emblematic of her entire approach to parenting. Everything on her terms 100% of the time even when there is no reason for her to be involved at all. I drove myself to these meetings so she didn’t even need to be out of bed—she just needed every aspect of my life to be about her.

I know I am the exception, but if you are waking your kids up daily in an annoying way, I hope it is after having had a conversation about what time they think they need to wake up and asking how they would like to take responsibility for getting themselves up.

I agree with you completely. I don't get all this obnoxious patting yourself on the back from pp's. So annoying. I hate being jolted awake. I don't do it to my kids and especially when it's not necessary. My mom would shout my name early on a Saturday morning with the "I'm up, so should you be" mentality. Didn't matter that I did my chores, made excellent grades, had a job, etc. Just obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a counter-argument to all those who say “oh it annoyed us then but now we laugh about it!”

I had a meeting every day before school so I had to be up at 6am. I set my alarm daily but my mom invariably decided it was her job to wake me yp before my alarm went off. She would come in 5-10 minutes before I actually needed to be up singing or yelling or turning on lights and I hated it and I still resent it now and think it is emblematic of her entire approach to parenting. Everything on her terms 100% of the time even when there is no reason for her to be involved at all. I drove myself to these meetings so she didn’t even need to be out of bed—she just needed every aspect of my life to be about her.

I know I am the exception, but if you are waking your kids up daily in an annoying way, I hope it is after having had a conversation about what time they think they need to wake up and asking how they would like to take responsibility for getting themselves up.

I agree with you completely. I don't get all this obnoxious patting yourself on the back from pp's. So annoying. I hate being jolted awake. I don't do it to my kids and especially when it's not necessary. My mom would shout my name early on a Saturday morning with the "I'm up, so should you be" mentality. Didn't matter that I did my chores, made excellent grades, had a job, etc. Just obnoxious.

I’m the PP who uses Schoolhouse Rock. My kids actually love it. It’s a fun way to wake up.

To the critics. . . Some kids have a much harder time waking up because they’re naturally night owls. We’ve tried everything to get them to sleep earlier with middling success, but there is a significant element of hardwiring to this, as neuroscience has indicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have trouble getting my teens out of bed in the morning. Now, when they should get up I start playing the audiobook of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" loudly in the hallway and turning it off when they are out of bed. It works, but they are quite annoyed. DW tolerates it. I say this is what being a dad is about. I'm their father, not a friend.

Your kids are LUCKY. I use polka music, death metal, or musicals.

[Anonymous]

I start playing foreign films on the tv to get my teenager to go to bed and stop hanging out with me at 10:30 at night. She hates them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a counter-argument to all those who say “oh it annoyed us then but now we laugh about it!”

I had a meeting every day before school so I had to be up at 6am. I set my alarm daily but my mom invariably decided it was her job to wake me yp before my alarm went off. She would come in 5-10 minutes before I actually needed to be up singing or yelling or turning on lights and I hated it and I still resent it now and think it is emblematic of her entire approach to parenting. Everything on her terms 100% of the time even when there is no reason for her to be involved at all. I drove myself to these meetings so she didn’t even need to be out of bed—she just needed every aspect of my life to be about her.

I know I am the exception, but if you are waking your kids up daily in an annoying way, I hope it is after having had a conversation about what time they think they need to wake up and asking how they would like to take responsibility for getting themselves up.

I agree with you completely. I don't get all this obnoxious patting yourself on the back from pp's. So annoying. I hate being jolted awake. I don't do it to my kids and especially when it's not necessary. My mom would shout my name early on a Saturday morning with the "I'm up, so should you be" mentality. Didn't matter that I did my chores, made excellent grades, had a job, etc. Just obnoxious.

I think waking someone just to wake them is mean. I want my kids to get as much sleep as possible. I’ll let them sleep until 6:15 if they ask, when they really should probably should be up at 6. But, when they’re not up by 6:30, or when they keep saying 5 more minutes and it’s on me to get them up, or when they sleep through their alarms... drastic measures are called for. Don’t put me in the position of being responsible for waking you up, make my job difficult, then complain about my methodology.