Getting Child to Sleep Later

Start keeping her up later and later and later until her clock changes. Biorhythms can be changed. Otherwise no one in the world could ever work the night shift.

Once she is sleeping later you start putting her to bed around 9pm or so and she should adjust.

The earlier she goes to bed the earlier she will get up. It might take 6 months of her staying up to 10 or 11 but her biorhythms will eventually change.

Since you say it doesn't matter what she's done the day before, it is most
likely her internal clock. Sorry.
I was like that as a kid.
What I would do then is tell her to play w/some stuffed animals or a toy
in her bed before she gets out of bed or calls you.
You can get a toy timer clock thing they have for little ones that will show
a special thing or have special light to let them know it's 7am (the time
you would like her to get up).

No ideas for you...I think we have tried them all. Our kids are 7and 4 and both are early risers, no matter what time they go to bed or what "tricks" we have tried. Nothing works.

Around the age of 3 my SIL bought one of those light up clocks. If it's red, you can't get up. If it's green, you can get up. She set it for 8 a.m. Her kids were trained to stay in their bed or play quietly in their room starting early (my SIL doesn't do mornings). At three, there is no way my kids would stick to this rule. Plus with out house layout, we'd hear their every "quiet" move.

Let me know if you find something that works! :)

I'm not sure there IS a way to change a natural sleep pattern, if its not one that has been learned and instead is just how she is.

This is the ONLY time I used TV as a "babysitter". My daughter was a minimal sleeper and once she was up..... She was UP, but never grouchy or tired.
I would go get her and bring her into bed with me and put on something that was the SAME amount of time I still wanted to "sleep". She had a sippy cup of water, a baggie of Cheerios and I had 50 min more to sleep. She didn't watch TV any other time so it was a "treat" and she was good about staying in the bed.

I will also say that my daughter is 12 now and If I didn't wake her up she would sleep til noon- and that's going to bed at 10. So I think sleep patterns will change, it's just tough when they're little and can't be unsupervised.

The only cure for that is school. Magically your child will resist getting up once she starts school. The only exception is the weekend. :P

Seriously, I had one like that, and now that he's almost 16 I can't get him up. I think he'd sleep until noon if I let him.

It's a major pain when they're small, though. It will pass (hopefully soon).

ETA: I like the light idea SB mentioned. I would have tried that if I'd known about it way back when.

Can't change her. You are only asking for 1/2 hour so I really do not see the difference. 6:30 or 7 to me is the same. Will she play in her room. Thank goodness my kids always entertained themselves in the morning. Will she lay in bed with you quietly? Some things you cannot change.

She probably won't sleep later, but you can provide her with quiet activities to do until you get up. While my boys were in the crib they had a couple of crib toys and some books they would occupy themselves with for a little while in the morning before they would call me to get them. When they moved from the crib to a bed I showed them how to turn on the tv, and to get the sippy cup of milk from the fridge.

I think you should leave it alone. When she's five and jumps up rested, happy and ready to tackle her day, you will be sooooo grateful! She's almost to the age where she can get up and be up for a few minutes in the mornings alone.

At about 3.5, I started putting a bit of cereal in a covered bowl on the table and poured a little milk in a cup and left in in the fridge. Then I put the tv on her cartoon station. When she got up, she could turn on the tv and when she was ready, she could put milk in the cereal and eat her breakfast. Let me stay in bed an extra 1/2 hour or so. Of course, we lived in an apartment so I could hear her. If it was a larger house, I'm not so sure it would have been so ideal.

No advice except get up and start the day. She is rested and awake then, so go with the flow mom.

There is no way to stop it, it will just gradually start to lengthen out. My youngest is up everyday between 5:30 and 6 am, without fail. In the winter she is to stay resting until the sun comes up, doesn't work as well in the summer since the sun is up when she get's up.

For know I just get up, I know that in time she will start to sleep a little later.

Soon I'm going to wish I had ur problem I need 8 hrs a night my daughter who is four 11 hrs. She starts pre k this fall so its going to be fun getting us both up in the mornings as we are grouchy butts

Nope...My kids are the exact same way and always have been. My two also get up at the same time no matter how late they are up the night before and on the rare occasion that we kept them up later we've regretted it.

What I notice now that they are older though (7and 9), is that I have to wake them at 7:30 on school days. However, on the weekend they are still up at 6:30!!!

Sorry I have no advice for you Mama.

I suggest u go to bed earlier if possible... sorry!

I do believe internal clocks can be changed with a planned gradual shift of time to go to bed, but if I were you, I'd let her be.
The difference between 6.30 and 7.00 isn't that much (but I do know what you wish for - those most precious moments of sleep...sigh...), and once your daughter starts pre-school or something, it might actually be to your advantage and the whole family can get ready early and bright! :)
Sorry, haven't got any better idea...

My son was ALWAYS an early riser.. regardless of when he went to bed. He was simply hardwired to be an early morning person.
Now at 11, it's beginning to change and I think it's due to growth spurts. He requires about 8 to 9 good hours of sleep...

Our bedroom windows face the street and while it's NOT a busy one, it can be a little noisy on weekends. Therefore, we have one of those wave sound machines.. it drowns out noise..it's also VERY relaxing.. you could try something to that extent and see if the subtle sounds relax her.. it needn't be really loud, just very soft in the background.. my son likes ours and I definitely think it might play a role in his sleeping better..

good luck

Sounds like a normal wake up time to me. My kids all get up around that time. The exception was this morning, since we weren't home until 11:30 pm last night, and they didn't get to sleep til nearly midnite. The first one to wake today was up at 8, the last one at 9.

Instead of trying to change her, just put a positive spin on it. It is only 30 minutes. Stop thinking of that time as precious sleep lost. The more you focus on how bad it is, it will be awful.

Focus on her happy smile that you get to see first thing in the morning! My son was my alarm clock when he was little. He would toddle into our room and tap my face. I didn't want him to ever think I didn't want to see him so I always gave him a big smile back and a big hug. (Of course, this meant he always came to my side of the bed each morning!)

Enjoy this time. Do something fun, just the two of you, each morning so that it becomes something you look forward to.