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Fox
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 Mon, Jun 09 2014, 10:54 am
| Ruchel wrote: | | I had never heard of kids going to bed at 7 or 6 (!) before the internet. |
Well, Boruch Hashem! From now on, I'm going to pretend that I was just a sophisticated, Continental-type mother rather than just some lazy mom who'd let her kids stay up until midnight if it prevented them from darkening her door before 7 or 8!
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bigbird
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Mon, Jun 09 2014, 11:46 am
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Special morning toys and that clock link are also something to look into. The problem with morning toys is that they'd so look forward to playing with them that even if they'd wake up early enough when they could still go back to sleep (say 5 am), that they'd get up and start playing then, even if they're still tired!
(Ironically it's now 4.30 am where I am, have just been up with the baby and have found 6yo reading in his room. Yikes!)
Ftr, kids are not going to sleep too early, I've experimented with that too. (Oh and even when bedtime is very late, Shabbos/yom tov, they still wake up same time)
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m+m
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Mon, Jun 09 2014, 12:14 pm
Leave breakfast for them and have them eat breakfast on their own.
Prefilled bowls of cereal for each kid on the table and a cup of milk for each in the fridge.
Tell them to go play quietly after breakfast in the playroom/bedroom/basement/living room- wherever their toys are.
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Snowdrop
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Mon, Jun 09 2014, 12:26 pm
Someone recently told me that her mom had a lot of small kids in a row, and she used to take them all grocery shopping at the crack of dawn, as soon as the store opened. The place was pretty much empty, and the kids used to run all over, and make as much noise as they wanted to.
If u can't beat them, join 'em, right ?!
Hang in there, OP!
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