Son is Too Sleepy, How to Get Him Up
Denise’s thoughts: "I love the suggestions you got in the thread, but I would add one thing. Tell him that you know he is capable of getting up on time because he is capable of having a cell phone and that is a big responsibility. If he is unable to get up one day on time and needs to walk to school, he should deposit his cell phone on the kitchen counter and it will be there for him to pick up the next day when he is able to get up.
The 'you earn your cell phone day-by-day' worked very well with my oldest when she was a younger teen. If I had known it was going to be so easy,(not at first but it didn't take long) I'd have bought her a cell phone earlier."
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My son had the same problem. When he was young he use to wet in the bed or sleep walk to the corner of the room, thinking he was in the bathroom and use it there in the corner.I gave him Shackley’s B- complex. The lack of B vitamins in your body will put you in a comatose state while you are sleeping and the brain can’t tell the body to get up. Give it to him right before he goes to sleep, otherwise, it will keep him up.
I have an alarm clock that gets louder and faster until it gets turned off. I give my 14 year old son son one wakeup call and then out comes the alarm clock. I set it on the floor in his doorway so he has to get out of bed to turn it off. It’s quite annoying for everyone else but it works…even if he trys to hide his head under his pillow.
Please be sure your son doesn’t suffer from depresion. Also check to be sure there isn’t a problem at school that he is avoiding. I would drive my mother nuts not getting up and getting ready for school! When my son didn’t want to go to school and was giving us a hard time, my partner told him that he must be really uncomfortable going to school, and to insure that he felt comfortable she would go to school with him all day and hold his hand so that he felt comfortable. (she really would have done it) He hasn’t missed or been late for school in over 2 years. We also reward him at the end of the year with $100.00 if he gets perfect attendance.
My son used to take his shower in the evening in order for us to save time in the morning, but when he started growing impossible to wake up in the morning we switched his showers to the morning. Now he wakes up easier in the morning.
Does your son have a T.V., XBOX Live, internet in his room? He does have access to the cell phone. Perhaps my son is playing games with your son at wee hours in the morning. My husband allows it in his room. I have busted him up wee hours on them before. I am disciplinarian so I have to punish him from controllers. Kids across the country are online or the phone late hours.
When my boys were younger, I used the “bad kitty” technique. When our cats would exhibit an unwanted behavior, they got sprayed with a water-filled plant sprayer. When the boys over-slept, they were squirted with water. If a mist didn’t get their attention, a direct spray sure did. Now, all I have to do is say “Don’t make me get the squirt bottle.” Works every time.
I spend an hour each morning trying to get my son up for school. If he is not up by 8:10, he has to walk to school (it starts at 8:45). If he is late, and he often is, it is recorded. Too many times and he has his own sign in book in the office which he must sign in by 8:30. If he is still late, then he gets detention, which he hates. He would rather spend his lunch hour with his friends than in detention. It works, for awile anyways.
When my kids were younger I would attempt twice to wake them. If they did not get out of bed, then I would get all their clothes ready and put them into bags. I would then pick each child up and get them into the car in theit pajamas and unless they wanted to go to school, church, wherever we needed to be in their pj’s then they get dressed in the car on the way. Only had to do that once.
u ppl are crazy…
i have one idea that no one mentioned..but not to get your son in trouble..but he may possibly attend pot smoking…when i first tried it..i used to wanna stay in bed a lot…if you wanna be strict about it..pop a drug test