When I'm trying to teach my kids, I find I'm the one who needs the training.
Our girls are grown; two still live at home and sometimes they don't hear their alarm clocks in the morning. A few months ago I told them I wasn't going to wake them up anymore. They were adults and if they don't wake up to their alarms, then they'll be late to whereever they needed to go. And for a few weeks I didn't wake them. We left them once on a Sunday. Diana ended up driving them after they woke up.
Diana learned the lesson. She has been great lately at waking up with her alarms. She's up, ready and out the door on time. But Beth... well she's still having a little trouble.
Then one time - it was only one time! - I ran downstairs and woke her up. Now I'm back to the usual routine, flipping on her lights, turning on her radio, explaining why she needs to wake up, what she'll get to do once she does wake up ("It's karaoke today!") and I'm right back to hating it. And she's back to sleeping in until I wake her up!
I need to tell her that I'm not going to wake her up anymore. She's an adult and if she doesn't wake up to her alarm.....
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It's got to be so hard to break the chain. I've got a vicious cycle with my cats right now, but it's the opposite - can't get them to sleep in since I get up as soon as they start to hassle me at 5:30am and go down to feed them. Of course the second I get back into bed, the child is up...
Good luck, and stay strong!!
Haha I have this exact same problem with Ryan! He doesn't ever hear his alarm...it'll wake up everyone else in the house but never him. So I'm constantly going in and out of the room reminding him that he needs to get up. The annoying thing is that if he DOES sleep in, I can't just leave him home. He's either my ride to church or he'll be late for work and will get less on his paycheck. So it's a lose lose. Hmph.
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