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Simple tip to make your morning routine to school a breeze

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simple tip for calm morning routineAs a parent, you learn early on that sleep cycle doesn’t work as logical with babies and kids, as it does in adults. The biggest advice for early risers is to put them in bed earlier. Also the less day-sleep they get, the less they sleep at night. It goes pretty much the same for the morning routine.

I have been waking my son up as late as possible to let him sleep 10 more minutes, but morning routine became worse and worse. He was grumpier. He has been protesting to go to school. When I inquired about the reason, he always complains the school starts really early. We have been catching the bus only as it was driving away or even missing it. Being rushed in the morning was really annoying him. Not to mention my constantly repeating “C’mon”, “Let’s go” and nagging.  To be honest, I find myself quite annoying when I’m nagging and bickering as well.

He goes to bed around 8:30pm. He has to be on the bus at 7:10 with 5 min get-out-of-the-house-and-run/drive-one-block sprint. His biological wake up time is around 7:15-7:30 am. Like most other kids he wakes up earlier than that over the weekends.

I decided to wake him up earlier upon my mom’s advice. (Yes, my mom is right, again) Against the logical expectation, that worked the magic. He is still semi-asleep when he gets up but he takes his time to wake up without me rushing him and nagging.

Now we have enough time so that he can move in slow-motion, eat his breakfast slowly, dress slowly and get ready by the door by 7:05 am.

I still think he is not getting enough his sleep. He cannot go to bed earlier than 8:30pm either. We tried. Hopefully, he recovers over the weekend.

If you are constantly in fast forward mode and still not on time in the mornings, try waking up a bit earlier. It really helps.

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I am a mother of two and a type of person who you would call “Jack of all trades, master of none”. As you might guess from categories, I love my children, reading, sewing, gardening, traveling and cooking. I also work full time so I have to be practical to do all the things I want to do in a 24-hr-day. More About Me


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