Pajanimals - Parents Bedtime Tips - Morning Matters (2009) (HD Version) - video Dailymotion

Mina Hebert

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00:00Sometimes my brother goes downstairs and I go with him and we watch TV.

00:05Mommy and Daddy, it's like so fun.

00:08I wake up when my mama says I could wake up and she wants me to get up when I was seven.

00:14When I wake up in the morning before my dad, I just, that always happens for steps like one or two times.

00:20They were already downstairs and I was still sleeping and then I woke up and I'll go straight to the room and I'll call,

00:26Mom, Daddy, because the gate's locked and I'll be stuck up there until they come up.

00:32What's tough about knowing it's morning time is that often in those early morning hours,

00:36kids have had enough night rest that they can bite sleep a little bit more.

00:40So their body starts to rouse and they go, I got to check on my train set.

00:45And I wonder what my brother's doing and my tummy's hungry and I got to go get something to eat.

00:49And they're out of bed like a cannon.

00:51So kids really need some very specific cues to help them understand when it's time to get out of bed

00:58and when it's not time to get up yet.

01:00So one thing that you can say is if the sun's not up yet, it's not time to get up.

01:06If you don't hear Daddy shaving and you don't hear Mommy downstairs letting the dog out,

01:11it's not time to get up.

01:13And one of our favorite things to do for this situation is to actually draw a number on a piece of paper

01:21and put it next to a number on a digital clock.

01:26So they can actually see when this number matches this number, then you can get out of bed.

01:31Right.

01:31And even if your child can only match shapes, you can sort of do the, you know,

01:35six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, you know, really repeat what a six looks like

01:39over and over and over and over.

01:40Sure, you want to cover up the second two numbers on the clock so they don't get too confused with too many numbers.

01:44But just say, if it's, if there's a five, that doesn't match the six, the six has to match the six.

01:50Now for younger children or children who have a hard time matching shapes,

01:54the other thing that we recommend is actually to have some sort of alarm clock

01:57that has some sort of beautiful classical music station set for six o'clock

02:02or that you can have something that has like a chirping birds and things like that on it.

02:06So one of the things we love to do is to tell children that when the birdies go chirp, chirp, chirp,

02:12that's how they'll know that it's time to wake up.

02:14And so it would sound like this at six o'clock in the morning.

02:17This would go off.

02:20And then they know.

02:21So they need very concrete, specific things that will help them understand.

02:28And sometimes when kids have been having a hard time with early morning,

02:33you know, you want to double check your environment

02:36and make sure that you don't have, you know,

02:38a garbage truck coming by at that hour with the window wide open.

02:41Or, you know, there could be a neighbor's dog that's barking

02:43and you can have a very friendly conversation with your neighbor and say,

02:46guess what, Fido is waking my child at five o'clock in the morning.

02:50And, you know, it is sort of torture for kids who have so much energy at this age

02:55and to, you know, kind of feel like they have people to see and things to do

03:00and they have to get on with their day to be able to stay in bed at that hour.

03:03So the more that you can do environmentally to protect your child from waking at that hour,

03:08the more likely they will be to sleep late as well.

03:10One other important tip in terms of early morning waking is also,

03:14and it doesn't sound like something that's all that logical,

03:16but really, if children go to bed too late at night,

03:19if they are going to bed past where their optimal window is,

03:22they tend to wake up earlier in the morning

03:25than if they went to sleep at a nice early hour at night.

03:28So make sure that your child is getting somewhere around 11 hours of sleep at night.

03:31And so if they are going to bed at 9 or 10 o'clock at night,

03:34they may still wake up even earlier in the morning

03:37than if they were put down at, you know, 8 o'clock, 7.30 at night.

03:42They would actually sleep a whole lot better that way.

03:44It's the opposite of what you would think.

03:46Sometimes you think, oh, I'll just keep them up later,

03:48and they'll sleep later in the morning.

03:49And it's the opposite that happens because there's a stress hormone

03:52that the body actually produces when they're overtired.

03:54And that stress hormone present in the body in that early morning hour

03:58is going to fight them in being able to stay asleep.

04:01So, you know, the great thing about the song that the Bajanimals sing

04:05for waking up in the morning is that they do give the kids very specific cues

04:10about when it's time to get up and when it isn't.

04:13So if you hear mommy's fuzzy slippers coming down the hall,

04:16if you hear the birdies chirping, then it's okay.

04:19If you don't hear those things, it's not time yet.

Pajanimals - Parents Bedtime Tips - Morning Matters (2009) (HD Version)

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