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post #1 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:01pm
Thread Starter 
Do you wake sleeping children to HS?

I struggle with 2 opposing yet equal issues:

I want to do HS in the morning. I am even Ok with starting at 10:30 a.m. For various reasons (including work and afternoon commitments) morning is the best time to do academic work.

DS sleeps in. Part of the reason I Hs is the ease of scheduel. I really do believe in following our own body rythms.

So - where do you come down on sleep vs scheduleing?

Kathy
post #2 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:11pm
Is it possible to put your ds to be earlier so he may wake up earlier? Does he sleep in past 10:30? What I would do is choose a time that I would like to start and then gently wake up my child to start the day. If I felt like my child wasn't getting enough sleep, I would fit in sleep other times, like naps or going to be early.
Good luck!
post #3 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:14pm
I've yet to deal with this as all my dc are early risers. I don't know what I'd do- depends on what time they are going to bed, etc.
post #4 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:15pm
Never. The great thing about homeschooling is that everyone can sleep as much as they need to. If the kids are tired, we work the hs schedule around their sleep.

My kids normally sleep until 8:30 or 9 a.m., and we do our seat work after breakfast. But if they need to sleep more than that, then we'd honestly just skip that work for the day.

If they regularly slept in, then I'd re-think schooling early in the morning.
post #5 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:31pm
Never. Our afternoons are busy too, so most of our formal work happens in the evening, which has some advantages, including the fact that daddy is home and therefore more one-on-one is possible, and the fact that my youngest goes to bed earlier, giving me time with the older kids alone.

Miranda
post #6 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:33pm
Nope. Same as LauraN and moominmama.
post #7 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:41pm
If the kids aren't up by 8am I go in the room and open the shades. That does the trick.

But I'm the kind of person who operates best on a schedule.

Of course, I don't wake them up if I think they need the sleep.
post #8 of 33
10/9/08 at 4:53pm
If we pulled a really late night, I will let them sleep in. But otherwise, if they aren't up by 9 am, I start doing some gentle waking techniques (opening shades, turning on lights, etc). If that doesn't work, they are woken up by 9:30. This is pretty rare though. They are usually up by 8:30 and started with schooling by 9. They like to get down early so they can go out and enjoy the afternoon, before we have to start on our late afternoon, early evening activities.
post #9 of 33
10/9/08 at 5:20pm
Never. One reason I like homeschooling is because my oldest works best at night. He is impossible to get motivated if he gets up too early.
post #10 of 33
10/9/08 at 5:57pm
Thread Starter 
I haven't woken him yet. But I do find myself pacing around, anxious to start.

Early afternoons sometime work, evening - never.

I would like to move to a system where he is responsible for getting the work done- and he can do it more on his own scheduel - thus removing my schedueling issues. We are not there yet - he is not that independant (it is a goal, but we are a work in progress).

I do not know if it matters than I Hs multiple children - schedueling everyone (and we do not even do that much! We are hyper relaxed!) is tricky.

I expected a bunch of different answers, lol, and that is what I got!

Kathy
post #11 of 33
10/9/08 at 6:46pm
I never wake them for "school work" but I have had to wake them to get them out the door for field trips or play dates.

I figure one of the joys of homeschooling is sleeping in and giving Mom a few minutes to herself
post #12 of 33
10/9/08 at 7:00pm
At this point I don't have to contend with that.. my boys are up at the butt crack of dawn Which will only get worse as summer comes and the sun will be up at 430AM (pardon me while I go paint their windows black would you?? ) The only one that ever sleeps past 8am is the 2yo occasionally.

I don't think I'd wake them if it were an issue though.. I'd just plan to do 'work' later and they'd have to understand that other things would get to wait until it was finished (if I were a more structured schooler) *I* am not at my best in the morning anyway... give me an hour & some coffee tyvm And my soon to be kindergartener wakes up fine on his own, but if you wake him up he is NOT pleasant and refuses to cooperate with anything and might even pitch a pillow at you for your efforts
post #13 of 33
10/9/08 at 7:02pm
We don't have a schedule, HS can be anytime.
post #14 of 33
10/9/08 at 7:07pm
We don't have a strict schedule, but for the sake of getting chores and schoolwork done, I do wake kids up if they're still in bed at 9am. There are several days a week where we have to go out in the afternoon, so some stuff does need to happen in the morning.
post #15 of 33
10/9/08 at 7:12pm
I'm not going to wake dd up just to hs. I can't see that going well for us.
I usually don't wake her up unless we have to be somewhere at a certain time.
I'm okay hs at virtually any time of the day or night though.
post #16 of 33
10/9/08 at 7:18pm
I'm not usually up in the morning either, so nope, I don't wake up the kids. We're a bunch of night owls around here, though.
post #17 of 33
10/9/08 at 8:16pm
i don't wake my kids ever, except on sunday for church. however they do have bedtimes - so they usually are up early enough (my son by 7:30 and my dd by 8:30). my daughter will occasionally sleep til 10, but that's rare ...and i know she must need it...so i leave her be.
post #18 of 33
10/9/08 at 8:47pm
I would wake him.

If he's not up by 10 am there is something that needs to be adjusted in his schedule.

You aren't being unreasonable in wanting to start by 10:30 so you can have your afternoons free for other engagments.
post #19 of 33
10/9/08 at 9:02pm
No - I never did that in all our years of homeschooling.

And yes, he was able to easily get himself up whenever he needed to later when he had jobs and college classes to deal with.

Lillian
post #20 of 33
10/10/08 at 2:59am
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Originally Posted by karemore View Post
I would wake him.

If he's not up by 10 am there is something that needs to be adjusted in his schedule.

You aren't being unreasonable in wanting to start by 10:30 so you can have your afternoons free for other engagments.
Early mornings work really well for some and not so great for others. There's no reason the OP can't create a viable schedule that satisfies her family needs.

I just know that one of the main reasons we homeschool is because dd is not a morning person and I saw no need for her to have to be up earlier than her body normally wakes (she's kinder age).
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