The important thing is to teach the kids to get ready themselves while they are still young, how I did it when my oldest was still young I taught him to sleep early even if he wasn't going to school, and what happens is that he will wake up early 4-5 am in the morning I didn't try a way to stop that waking up early part, and now it helps me out a lot.
When my son woke up early when he was 1-year old I will feed him breakfast and he will go back to sleep and then as time went by, he will wake up and eat breakfast and play, and then finally, he will wake up, eat breakfast and we get ready for the day together even if we not going anywhere, what I did when he was 2 years I will take out things that he needs to get ready together with him, and what happened is that, he started wanting to do things himself and I will help here and there, and because we've been doing this for a long time, I will help with little things, my goal was when he started school to be able to get ready on his own, I didn't wait until he started school to teach him, I just made it to be part of our family routine, the important part for me was, when he started school was for him to learn the school environment and share his experience with me.
Because I didn't stop teaching him to sleep early and wake up early, I didn't have a problem of waking him up in the mornings to go to school, there was no noise in the morning, he will wake up and we will do the normal routine, and it was working perfectly, the real problem is trying to teach kids things when they have already grown up and it hard for them to apply the new routine because they are used to the old way of doing things, like for example letting your kid’s sleep late because they not going anywhere it will definitely be a problem in the future because when they sleep late they will want to wake up late because of not getting enough sleep, when you wake them up in the morning they won’t want to wake up, and well you will be spending time trying to wake them up and well the will be to much noise and they will end up not liking going to school because they have to wake up early.
So teach them while they are still young to get ready, and then you won’t find it hard to get them ready for school they will do that part on their own and you will worry about preparing breakfast, lunch, and making sure homework is inside the school bag. All kids are very clever and they learn quickly so let us not delay them but let them grab what is important because this will go a long way as long as we continue doing things that will help them in the future, it will help even when they are adult and employed, they will be able to get to work on time with no stress because they've been taught in their early age, to be prepared for the next day you just have to sleep early so you will wake up early and get your thing ready and be early where ever you are going.
The best thing is that you don't have to teach the siblings they see their older siblings and they copy everything they do, and well you've got kids who are waking themselves up to get ready for school, in the morning.
By Polite.K
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