As parents, we know how important it is for our children to get a good night of sleep.
They need sleep to rest their bodies from the constant motion that children seem to in. They need sleep so that their brains can recharge and can be ready to learn. They need sleep so that they can focus and act like normal people and not wild animals.
When our kids don’t get enough sleep, they can be crabby, cranky, short tempered little monsters. Or be just the opposite, super happy, super hyper, bouncing off the walls, can’t sit still or focus to save their lives.
The latter is what happens when Hayden gets over tired and that behavior and going to school all day, go together about as well as oil and water.
If Hayden is to have a successful day at school, he needs to be well rested.
On some level, I believe that Hayden knows this too. He might not always agree with it but he knows that in order to have good days at school and at home, he needs to sleep.
But the problem is that Hayden knows he needs sleep but his three younger siblings have not yet come to this understanding. All they know is that in Hayden’s room are all the cool toys and all it takes to get to those toys in opening his door and flipping on the light switch.
There have been more mornings than I can count where the little kids have woken up Hayden before he or I was ready.
So to solve this problem, he gave Hayden a nice new room downstairs. We recently finished our basement and doing so gave Hayden a brand new Star Wars bedroom.
So there! Take that little kids! You can no longer wake up your big brother! Ha ha, Mommy wins!!
Or so I thought.
Even with Hayden being downstairs and the little kids being upstairs, Hayden has still been getting up at that ass crack of dawn. And to make matter worse, he keeps tell me that they little kids are the ones that wake him up. He says they are too noisy.
“Really?” I asked him one morning. “You can hear them, all the way upstairs?”
“Yeah, mom. I can. Its because of a thing called sound waves,” he said sounding way too smart for his own good. “They travel through the register and come and hit me ears and wake me up. There is nothing you can do. Its just science.”
I just stood there, dumbfounded. All I could do was look at him as he gave me a crooked smile and left the room.
I guess he is right, it is just science.
But I wonder if it is too late to sound proof his room?
I wonder if I could soundproof MY room….
Out of the mouths of babes – I love it.
I agree with Shell. I want to soundproof MY room, too!
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Once those sound waves hit someone’s ears (WHAM) there’s nothing that anyone can do!
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Use a noise maker!! Both my kids have noise makers with rain noise on FULL blast so no one wakes anyone up. Our house is also small, so I feel like I have to have them.
PS- that pic is so cute!
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We actually do have fans/noises makers in all their rooms. But see a fan doesn’t do a very good job at blocking out little people that come into said room and make noise.
Darn kids!
I bet Michaela would like her room to be soundproofed, too. I once went into her room to check on her after she’d gone to sleep, and found her with her head under the pillow.
When I asked her about it the next morning, she said it was because Shane and I had kept her up with our “loud laughter”.
We had been watching ‘Modern Family’. I can’t help it if that show makes me guffaw loudly.
I would say he is getting too smart for his own britches, that one!
Tommy is really into science and spouts out things like that to me. And to strangers.
I’d LOVE to sound proof my room. The kids wake me up quite often. And if it’s not the kids, it’s the cat meowing.
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I hear your pain. The fear of one child waking another has often times sent me to another hemisphere. “Mommy Dearest” was an angel in comparison. I can only tell you that with time it gets better.
I’ve got two words for you: white noise.
It’s worked for us for twelve years now.
Give it a try.
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I am totally in love with my fan/noise maker and I have placed one in each of the kid’s room. Alas, it just doesn’t do a good job of keeping little ones out.
What a smart kid!!
My son is an early riser and my daughter likes to sleep in. It’s a HUGE problem in our house and I haven’t found the solution yet.
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I agree with white noise like someone else mentioned. We all sleep with box fans at my house to drown out the other noises.
I have one of each. Baby Girl gets super hyper and Bud is a cranky, whiny mess when he gets tired. Both drive me nuts.
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What a cute little smarty:-)
Okay, Hayden is getting way too smart
Or did he just come up with a really good excuse? 
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I seriously think that he is too smart and too good at coming up with excuses at least he is better than Quinn who’s excuse from everything is… “I hot!”
It goes something like this, “Quinn please turn the TV off.”
“No, I hot!”
Its awesome…. Not!
Ah I feel you. In my house it was the oldest waking up the littles.
The oldest who is now 16 still wakes up at the butt crack of dawn. I feel cheated. I was promised I would get the pleasure of waking said child up when he was a teenager, to thkn him appropriately for the early morning wake ups he gave me when he was little.
This is so not fair.
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Darn wicked science!
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oh boy…how I can relate to this one. Jacob’s about given up naps – its rare I can get him to take one at home. Sarah still NEEDS a nap – in a big way! She thankfully takes one almost every day at preschool and I can usually squeeze 1 in each weekend. The problem falls when Jacob DOES take a nap…then he’s wide awake and playing long past bedtime – and keeps his sister awake, too…which means she’s even MORE dramatic and crabby the next day! (if that’s possible!). We have seriously considered putting Adam and Sarah together and giving Jacob his own room for a while but haven’t yet decided to take that leap.
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