Working parents - what time do you wake up?

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[Post New]09/26/2020 18:00
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Anonymous
6:45 am, unless the kids wake us up earlier (5:30-6). Or, if my partner gets up with the kids, I'm sleeping until 8-8:30, which has been amazing.

Pre-covid, we were up between 5:30 and 6 and I don't miss it.

On the other hand, I have not been exercising and I need to figure out how to fit that in. I'm usually wiped out at the end of the day. My partner exercises after dinner, before the kids go to bed.
[Post New]09/27/2020 13:36
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Anonymous
4-5a, depending on the workout. We made a nice gym inside the house instead of having to commute to the gym. We don't have a pool, though...

We make breakfast easier by premaking things or doing something quick, like a bird's nest.
[Post New]09/27/2020 15:19
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Anonymous
Around 7:30. Maybe 10 minutes earlier, maybe 5 minutes later.
[Post New]09/27/2020 15:28
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Anonymous
My kids are already up sometime between 5:30 and 6. I am up with them. We are larks, not owls.
[Post New]09/28/2020 01:36
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:My job is fairly intense. My teen gets herself up for school but I start work from home at 6am. From 6-9am my 4 month old is asleep and I can get a good amount done.


Wow! That is an age gap...how many DCs do you have?
[Post New]09/28/2020 01:39
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Anonymous
My DC woke us up between 4-4:30 am for the first six years of their lives. I used to go to bed at 8:30/9:00 am. Now, it’s about 6:30 am.
[Post New]09/28/2020 08:37
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Anonymous
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.


This. I'm a morning person and I generally wake up early even if I stay up later for something because that's what I'm used to. I worked the 6:30-3 shift when I was with the government and I've always done my best work in the mornings (had 8 am classes in college) and I'm mostly useless in the evenings (could never stay up all night studying). I enjoy my mornings before my kids wake up and luckily my best friend is a school teacher so we can work out together virtually or talk while running in the mornings. I have tried working out at night but I just can't. After my kids go to bed all I want to do is read or watch TV and then sleep.
[Post New]09/28/2020 08:40
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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.


It has to be genetic - my husband and I are early birds and so are our kids, same with our good friends. My kids have slept until 8 am maybe once in seven years and I can't tell you the last time I was still asleep at 8 am. I do think it's true that people think early birds are more motivated, less lazy, etc., which is ridiculous. I had a boss who was a morning person and he liked that I was and constantly harped on the people who showed up at 9 am, even though they stayed a lot later.
[Post New]09/28/2020 08:43
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Anonymous wrote: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!


Does your partner wake you up if you have an early flight or something? I can think of multiple reasons I've set my alarm and I am usually up by 6 am at the latest just on my own, with no alarm.
[Post New]09/28/2020 08:47
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:5am, same as always. Work out 5:15-6. Cannot miss that workout or my day is ruined. It's the best part of my day.


I wish I felt that way. I've had some good workouts and I generally always like how I feel, but never quite enough to make myself want to do it every day.
[Post New]09/28/2020 21:28
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Anonymous
Pre-DL, I was up at 5:30am to make lunch and breakfast for my family. We were out of the house by 6:45 for a 50 min car ride to DS's HS.

[Post New]09/28/2020 21:47
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:4AM. It sucks but I have to get work started before the kids wake up at 7.


This is me too. It’s so exhausting but days are miserable if I don’t do a Few hours of work before I have to monitor DL and break up fights, etc. I can’t exercise during the week, but try to make up for it on the weekends.
[Post New]09/28/2020 23:21
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jsmith123
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9 to 9:30 lately. DH is a morning person and I'm a night owl. I love being the only person awake late at night in the house.

I feel like I miss out on morning play time with the kids, but every time I try to get on an earlier schedule I'm such a grouch that I think my family prefers this schedule.
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