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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

Yeah. I locked my kids in too by turning the doorknobs around because they'd try to climb over the gate at the top of the steps. But that ended by the time they could navigate the steps, well before 2 and well before nighttime potty training.

That's nice. She's on a separate floor from us and it works for us. I hope you don't teach your kids to be this judgmental.

np Everyone is judgmental. Even you! Btw, I agree it is bizarre to lock your dd in her room!

I haven't judged anyone. You're all the ones being bitches about doing something her pediatrician recommended and that she seems perfectly happy about.

My 1 and 3 year old wake up between 545 and 7 so I just get up when I'm first called. Most days that usually 6-630 and I have no interest in getting up earlier

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

Yeah. I locked my kids in too by turning the doorknobs around because they'd try to climb over the gate at the top of the steps. But that ended by the time they could navigate the steps, well before 2 and well before nighttime potty training.

That's nice. She's on a separate floor from us and it works for us. I hope you don't teach your kids to be this judgmental.

np Everyone is judgmental. Even you! Btw, I agree it is bizarre to lock your dd in her room!

Dh gets up by 5 every day. I am not a morning person. So when the oldest is up at 6:30 she gets up and crawls into bed with me. With WFH dh is home in the am and they go play and he gets her milk or a snack. One of us then gets up with the baby who is up around 6:30-7 and our day starts together. I wish I could be up before the kids but I never have been. Works for us. It does mean I take a shower at night most days and lay out my clothes etc and don't have a peaceful getting ready morning but I get lots of pajama snuggle time with them instead.

When mine were little I did aim to be up before the kids. I'd be up at 6:30 for my coffee and some time to read. Older child usually woke on his own at about 7:00 and then the baby sometime after that. That extra half hour made a world of difference in how I felt during the day.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

Yeah. I locked my kids in too by turning the doorknobs around because they'd try to climb over the gate at the top of the steps. But that ended by the time they could navigate the steps, well before 2 and well before nighttime potty training.

That's nice. She's on a separate floor from us and it works for us. I hope you don't teach your kids to be this judgmental.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

Yeah. I locked my kids in too by turning the doorknobs around because they'd try to climb over the gate at the top of the steps. But that ended by the time they could navigate the steps, well before 2 and well before nighttime potty training.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

Why? Her pediatrician recommended it. She's perfectly happy.

Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

Ummmmm. This is bizarre.

My 3.5 year old plays in her room until about 8:30am. I get up at 8am to get ready and make coffee before I go and get her. We lock her door at night, so she stays safe in there (she has a travel potty in there that we just clean out every day).

4:30 AM. That way I can get in a workout and shower before my two year old wakes up.

My 9 yo is up at 6 most mornings, so I generally get up when she gets up. (Some weekends I let her take the iPad and I stay in bed a bit longer.) my 6yo usually wakes up around 6:30 but sometimes sleeps later.

My weekday alarm is set for 6:15. If by some chance both of them are still asleep by then I get up and enjoy a few minutes of solitude.

My kids are older now but no, we never woke up before them back then. We wanted as much sleep as possible.

Now we get up before them, but only because they sleep in.

Can you take turns/pick days of the week?

I wake at at 5:30 am. It's an internal clock from a long time ago. So the kids expect me to be awake before them. I am usually energized and ready to go by the time they wake up around 7:30

DH sleeps late and wakes up late. I am tired and grumpy in the evenings. So generally, I have morning duty and he has night duty(does night routine and puts them to bed).

We divide and conquer.

If you are both late risers, maybe you can split the days of the week. Mone Wed Fri Sun for one person and Tu Thur Sat. and then rotate.

Do you try and wake up before them? Or just sleep until they get up? DH and I have fallen into a bad habit with sleeping until the kids wake us up or around 7am. We are trying to break this and wake up no later than 6:30 so we can get ready and have a cup of coffee and get things together before the kids get up (5, 3 and 6 months). Kids sleep until 7:30ish.