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No! The spray bottle did NOT work. Any suggestions on how to wake a 9 year old who wants to stay up all night and not get out of bed on a school morning?
First of all: lol. 😅
Second, as someone suggested in the previous thread: force him to turn off the tablet and get to bed!
Now, as I understand, you're the grandma not the father. I don't know what your situation is specifically, or if you're even in charge of getting him to bed, or if you're even really concerned and struggling with him, or if this is more of a "joke". But, I'm going through this with my 4 year old to some extent, and I've found that very little of what Mom says to get him to go to bed works. I'm almost always needed to gently but firmly give the "OK. We're done messing around. Let's go, and let's go NOW" speech when he's acting up.
I'm sure you have that in you, if you need to do it. It's a shame because, in my belief, that's not Grandma's job. Hopefully, if it's a real serious situation, you can get Dad or Mom to work on that aspect of their parenting. It's important for the young man.
God bless.
My son works 2 weeks in the Oil fields in New Mexico and then comes home for 2 weeks. When he is here, he doesn't tolerate it, but when he's gone, since his wife works also and gets up early, she is too tired to keep up with what is happening at night. My son has an app to cut off all the internet and electronics and such from his phone; no matter where he's at, but sometimes he is on the Derrick and can't do it. I have done everything to get this child motivated, but he is a hard sleeper. Even Papaw has threatened and shook him to wake him; NOTHING. So this morning I LOST IT and got a fly swat and popped that but about 3 times with it. Then I called my son and told him I was about to QUIT with the kids. So sometimes you have to motivate the Parents to get something done.
I'm with you on LOL. Not going to bed/turning out the light/not getting out of bed on time were never options.
I give this advice as someone who was allowed to literally stay up all hours of the night myself, and missed probably a full third of highschool on the tail end of it. Wasn't forced awake either. Parents were like "alright, whatever, I'm going to work."
I came out OK, but only after struggling throughout my early 20s forming a routine. It's still something I have to "work on". I'd rather have been taught it as a malleable kid.
And there's a lot of replies about being super aggressive with the kid. Thus far I've not found that necessary. Explosions are less effective, long term, than firm routine. Explosions are less work for the guardian though. 👀
Yes. Firm routine, not super aggressive. If anything the latter breaks bonds etc.