For my Facts Of Life blogging debut I figured I post about a subject that makes us all scratch our heads… and bugs the hell out of us.

Why is it so hard for our kids to get up for school?

Guess what? It’s our own fault.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and finally it hit me. The problem. Why it is. So here goes.

From birth we encourage sleeping. As much as we can. It’s both good for the baby physically and for us mentally. Then, as the child grows up we keep this trend going. Sleep is good after all and it gives us a chance for alone time.

We set bed times. Usually, for most of us our child’s bedtime is right when it get’s dark. But let’s say for the sake of using a real time we put out young children down between 8:00 and 9:00. This (In our minds) gives our children a good night sleep and time for us to… do whatever we do.

So. Our child is in grade 1. He/She goes to bed between 8 and 9 and get’s up at say… 7:30 for breakfast and to get ready for school.

That’s 10.5 to 11 hours of sleep time! Almost everyday!

Fast Forward. Pre-Teen and teenager.

As our child get’s older they naturally stay up later. Social activities, television, computer… whatever. But they do stay up later.

Since birth, we have conditioned our children to rely on 10-11 hours of sleep.

So, with that said is there any real question why our kids don’t want to get up after only sleeping 6-8 hours? They’ve been sleeping 11+ hours since birth. Make sense?

So, to close. This is why it’s our own fault we fight with our lovable offspring to get up for school each morning.

Any thoughts?

-Big Bad Billy.

Side Note. This is not related, but us parents may find it amusing. It’s a parody of a Mr. Clean commercial. If you’re only here to read don’t click. Want a little smile? Click away!

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF0201682F0017011BE3FE/