Now that we have that lecture out of the way, try some of these parent-approved tricks for waking up your kids in the morning. Use a wake up light. Light tells your body it is time to wake up. You can open up the blinds and curtains about 15 minutes before your child should wake up to ease them out of sleep, but this doesn’t always work if. 'Hibernation Day- transform the dramatic play area or library into a hibernation cave, then have children crawl around the room to sniff out food when they 'wake up,' (from Animals in Winter Teaching Theme @ Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas)'.

• Wake Up From Nap Music For Preschoolers

My four year old is like I am: she HATES to wake up. I completely empathize with her, and I have horrible memories of screaming battles with my parents waking me up for school.

How should I go about waking her up for school in the morning? It used to be really easy, I'd simply go in the room, turn on the light, and say 'good morning'. It slowly got more difficult, and is now to the point where she simply covers her head with the blanket and shouts 'no thank you!' Or 'go away'. The first thing I was thinking was that she simply wasn't getting enough sleep. But, like me, enough is never enough. I can easily sleep 13 hours straight and she will too, which unfortunately doesn't work in the real world (yes, I've talked to our Doctor and ruled out medical issues).

Wake Up From Nap Music For Preschoolers

Even on days when we can get her to go to sleep early, she still is ridiculously difficult to get up in the morning. Any help the community can provide on effective ways to wake my 4 year old up in the morning would be awesome. I was always a morning riser myself, but my daughter and husband are definitely NOT! What I did was to create a morning routine for her in music.