Anonymous wrote:If they don’t like it, they can wake themselves up before you open up some American lit on them. It’s their problem to fix. It could be worse. You could make them listen to it on the car ride to school. That would be torturous to me. I hated Twain’s novels.

Yeah, it COULD be worse: you could make them listen to it in the car on the way to school WHILE ALSO GIVING FRIENDSA RIDE. ie MAKE THEIR FRIENDS LISTEN TO IT TOO. Haha! That would be social torture for a middle-schooler or teen.

If they don’t like it, they can wake themselves up before you open up some American lit on them. It’s their problem to fix. It could be worse. You could make them listen to it on the car ride to school. That would be torturous to me. I hated Twain’s novels.

My mom used to belt out "Wake Up, Little Susie" to get me out of bed. And she has a terrible singing voice.

I stand over my kids playing the ukelele. Badly. Your kids are lucky. Keep it up.

This is amazing. I hope I remember to do this when my kids are teens! Keep it up!

My dad used to come into my room and turn my radio, on high volume (which was across the room from my bed) to a blue grass station.

I love it, and wish someone would blast an audio book for me.

When my boys were little we'd blast Justin Bieber from my daughter's room. They'd get up, but would be in a foul mood.

My mom used to do this too. We had one of those intercom systems that seem to have been so ubiquitous in the 80s or so. So, she could turn on the radio in the kitchen and it would blast throughout the house, full volume. Ahh, good times.

I suggest a squirt gun. Nerf guns work too.

Offer to play Zippadee Do Dah instead.

Tell them I had to yell in my son's ear the other day to get him to wake up. His alarm had been ringing for 10 minutes and this had woken up his little sister.

I know what to do though. I'll buy a water sprayer, store it in the fridge overnight, and use that

I think it's hilarious.

In about 15 years, it'll become a funny anecdote they share at parties.

I love it.

--mom, English teacher

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.