What time do you wake up in the morning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a controlling jerk. I work part time. I get up at 7:30 and start to get ready and get my son up at 8-8:30. We leave at 9. Weekends we sleep in.

Op, how did you manage to teach your son to get up, go to bathroom, eat breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed, make beds, and leave the house in 30 minutes? How old is your son? It takes us now about 1.5 hours in the morning.

1.5 hours to get your kid ready?

Insane.

[Anonymous]

DH gets up at 530 to run, back by 7 when kids (4 and 6) and I get up. He showers and takes little one to preschool. Then I work out and take older one to elem (900 dropoff) then head to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a controlling jerk. I work part time. I get up at 7:30 and start to get ready and get my son up at 8-8:30. We leave at 9. Weekends we sleep in.

Op, how did you manage to teach your son to get up, go to bathroom, eat breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed, make beds, and leave the house in 30 minutes? How old is your son? It takes us now about 1.5 hours in the morning.

I’m not PP, but I think you need to re-evaluate your method if it takes you 1.5 hours to get the school age kid out the door in the morning. We generally wake up an hour before going to the bus stop just so we can take our time; but there have been a few times we woke up late and were able to dress, eat a quick breakfast, brush teeth, then rush out to door within 20 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And thanks for the unsolicited advice, pps. You are right, I should explode my marriage vows over a disagreement about sleep schedules.

You posted a long OP about his opinion on your sleep schedule. He sounds like a jerk. Hence, unsolicited advice. If you didn’t want people to weigh in, you could have simply asked what time people get up, without the long explanation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really productive people like President Obama get up early. But dude also looks old now. Trade offs.

I think he looks old from being president for 8 years more so than from being an early riser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And thanks for the unsolicited advice, pps. You are right, I should explode my marriage vows over a disagreement about sleep schedules.

You posted a long OP about his opinion on your sleep schedule. He sounds like a jerk. Hence, unsolicited advice. If you didn’t want people to weigh in, you could have simply asked what time people get up, without the long explanation.

Well, yeah, but where is the fun in that? Could have done a Facebook poll too, but I chose DCUM for the anonymity and snark. You do understand that sassy replies go both ways on here, right?

[Anonymous]

6 a.m. on weekdays

Whenever the kids get up on weekends, though my husband and I do sometimes each sleep in a day. It depends.

[Anonymous]

I get up around 11am. No kids, work from home. That said, a lot of the choices I’ve made in my life were, sadly, dictated by how much sleep I need, and the fact that I am an unalterable night owl.

My husband? He’s glad I get enough sleep, because I’m hell on wheels without it.

A book just came out about the crucial role that sleep plays in keeping us healthy (although few of us are getting as much as we need). You should give your husband a copy. This was a good article about the book and its author: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/24/why-lack-of-sleep-health-worst-enemy-matthew-walker-why-we-sleep

[Anonymous]

4:30 during the week and 5 or 5:30 on the weekend.

[Anonymous]

I'm disabled, but I have to have my quiet time before anyone wakes up, so I usually get up at 5:30, my daughter gets up at 6 (she's always been an early riser), my son at 6:50 or 7, and my husband at 7 (he's semi-retired). He drives them to school, and then we do whatever unless he has to work that day, in which case I do whatever until I have to go pick the kids up. Sometimes one of my older sons comes and eats lunch with me if he has enough time on his lunch break at work.

[Anonymous]

I get up around 6 with the baby and myself. I get the older kids up and ready at 7, and we all leave for school/daycare/work around 7:45, usually while jogging. My life would be calmer if I did get up before the baby and gave myself a little bit of time to get things together.

Is it possible that your husband's beef is actually about the stressful nature of the mornings, or about not really being able to sleep on the weekends after a long work week because you don't get up until toddler is up and DH is awake?

[Anonymous]

8:30 am. I don't have kids and I need at least 9 hours of sleep a night to function.

[Anonymous]

I'm a night owl and DH needs far less sleep than I do. I get up at 7:30 on weekdays (I WOH) and sleep in until 9/sometimes 10 a.m. on weekends. We have elementary school aged kids.

[Anonymous]

I WOH, and wake at 6. I do this to get to work by a specific time. One weekends, 7:30 to 8:30. I am in bed between 9:30 and 10, I just need more than 8 hours so I try to make up for it a bit on the weekends.

If I were to SAH, I'd be up at 7, when the kids wake up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a controlling jerk. I work part time. I get up at 7:30 and start to get ready and get my son up at 8-8:30. We leave at 9. Weekends we sleep in.

Op, how did you manage to teach your son to get up, go to bathroom, eat breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed, make beds, and leave the house in 30 minutes? How old is your son? It takes us now about 1.5 hours in the morning.

I’m not PP, but I think you need to re-evaluate your method if it takes you 1.5 hours to get the school age kid out the door in the morning. We generally wake up an hour before going to the bus stop just so we can take our time; but there have been a few times we woke up late and were able to dress, eat a quick breakfast, brush teeth, then rush out to door within 20 minutes.

+1. We allow 45 minutes, but DC doesn't like to be rushed and have some time to read or chat in the morning. He sometimes goes and lays back down in his bed after breakfast. We could do everything in 30 minutes, easy.