Cant get daughter out of bed! Help!

When children enter adolescence they need more sleep. 9:30 or 10 seems a little late when she needs to be up by 6:45. Teenagers need more than 8 hours of sleep each night. She probably should be going to bed a little earlier. On the other hand, 5 minutes to get up sounds pretty reasonable to me. I take at least that long, and I'm an adult. Get her an alarm clock of her own. Set it early enough that she can hit snooze once. This way, she gets a few extra minutes to wake up gradually on her own, and you can get yourself ready or do whatever else you need to do instead of staying there trying to wake her up.

My sister has this problem, she's still in high school and will be graduating this year. She had a vitamin B12 deficiency causing lack of energy. Either an earlier bed time or have your daughter screened for any nutrition deficiencies. A vitamin supplement isn't always necessary as most of the time the deficiency can be amended with a change in diet. I hope that I have been at least a little help. Most likely though earlier bed times or a good cold cup of water to the face will work (just kidding...although it does work...usually). ^_^

If an alarm clock doesn't work, cold water will. I don't mean you have to dump a bucket on her or anything, just flick a few drops on her face if she won't wake up & get movin'. (Works on my husband, anyway! *g*)

Maybe you should try speaking to her gently and explain to her that waking her up in the morning is very difficult for you and she needs to do this on her own. She's already 13 and still depends on you when she wakes up.

I had that problem with my two sons. My mother told me that if they wouldn't get up I should make them suffer the consequences. Well, what could the consequences be? We lived out in the desert and they rode the bus to school, if they missed it then I'd have to take them and that was too pleasant...so I made them pay me! I used to pay them to do out of the ordinary chores like digging flowerbeds and such, so I made them do the work till they paid me off for the taxi rides. It worked like a charm. After the first time I had to drive them I made them work after school and pocketed the change I would've given them. I only had to drive them to school a couple times! Most 13yr olds need at least 10-12 hours of sleep per night. Obviously, it's impossible to make her go to bed at 7PM! But maybe she needs a nap after school? My boys sometimes did that and slept fine at night. Remember, when the body is awake it doesn't grow or repair itself. Kids needs as much sleep as they can reasonably get. Does she have a lot of after school activities?

I work at a crisis shelter for abused teens and I work the overnight. So I have to wake up 12 teenagers at 6:00am for school everyday. The thing I have discovered is that the more you nag the less they get up. I wake them up once and tell them how long they have before they have to be on the bus. If they don't get up they don't go to school and don't get to have any privileges for the day. The truth is teens want to be treated like adults and when we nag them they feel like they are being treated like children so if you take the stress off of you and put it on her she might respond better.

If she never late for school, she is always on time even her time is very tight in the morning because of getting up late. I think it is Ok. As soon as she knows what she is doing and try to organize her jobs, it is very Ok with the girl 13 year old.

I think there must be some root cause for it. Is she really that much tired that she can't get up? does she take enough nutritious food? Or is it just that she wants to sleep more. you can consult another doctor again. Also try to put some alarm type of things. that will make her wake.

like the person above me said, your daughter could do with her own alarm clock, it might not get her up, but if you use that in conjunction with you waking her then she might get up when you ask. being woken up by her own alarm will start the process of waking fully. my son is 9 and so far i have never really had problems getting him up, just going in and saying "good moning little man" does the trick for him, but i will expect it to be a bit more of a hasstle when he hits teens. have you asked your daughter if she feels she is not getting enough sleep? if she says that she doesn't think she is, then you could try to renegotiate bed time with here, possibly ask her to go to be half an hour earlier on school nights and offset that by letting her stay up a little later on weekends and school holidays? most teen girls feel all grown up and want to be negotiated with like an adult, so punishing her and making threats will only make things worse... i know i was one once lol. you could also look into whether she is getting enough vitimins (like vitimin D, which is usually low in winter months and helps energy levels), if she is lacking in some key vitimins, it can actually make her feel more tired than she should be.

a lot of adults have what is called an inner clock some kind of noise inside our subconscious will wake us up when we know we need to wake up offten tis happens before our alarms go off. Tell your daughter your her mother and one of your responsibilities as a mother is to train her on how to be an adult and from now on she has the responsibility of waking up on her own that you wont be waking her up anymore. She will have to learn the consequences of being late but eventually she will have developed her own inner clock and will wake up when the alarm rings.

I have 3 children all have been like that the one left at home now is 20 he has his own alarm my husband shouts him at 7. before he leaves for his work, and this morning at 7.10 I shouted him as I could not hear him moving about and he shouted I am up but he was not. pain they are was I the same I would like to think not but I was.