Re: Answer (long) was Checking in--LONG(TOO)

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I agree! I only used water on once but it was enough. I used a squirt gun so more got on her than the bed. She gets up as soon as she hears me call her name. The problem is she waits for me to call her name. I guess I need to start doing the water with her alarm clock but that defeats the purpose. I still have to get up. I usually get up around 4:30 to take my meds and then I go back to bed an hour later, after everything settles, so it's rough for me to get up again at 6:30. She gets out of bed (because our solution at first was to have her put the alarm clock across the room.... ha!) she turns off the alarm (too sorry to even hit the snooze button knowing that I'm a better button than that!!) and then gets back in bed until I wake up and notice that she's not up yet and I yell at her and then she gets up. Ronnie says let her sleep and be late for school but is that punishing HER? I know I need to stop because no one will be waking her up when she leaves home but.............. ok I'm weaning myself off slowly.

RE: Answer (long) was Checking in--LONG(TOO)

STILL wake up in the mornings when she turns off her alarm and goes back to sleep

The most sure fire way I ever found to wake kids up in the morning after the alarm has gone off, and you've given up on trying to get them up is a big pitcher or bucket of ice water. Forget about the room, the bed or whatever and just pour it on them. If that doesn't work (and it sometimes didn't with my son) grab a leg and pull them out of bed, toss the matress if you have to. But hey I'm all for letting them deal with the consquinces of not getting up in time, if they couldn't make it to school I always had a few really nice jobs for them to do and I stood over them until they were done. Ya know wash the trim with a tootbrush, scrub kitty litter boxes, pick up dog poop in the back yard, make them do their own laundry, anything along that line. I know not everyone will agree with this, but when it gets down to the point of where everything else has failed you start to try other things. My son slept in his truck a few times that he missed curfew at home, and I checked up on them when they were supposed to be at work. Tough love, use it...........One day they'll actually thank you for it.

Hugs,

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