The Secrets to Easier Weekday Mornings With Your Teen

So we're talking about mornings with our kids.

So for a big chunk of the population, it's a real challenge.

It's a very hard way to start the day when you've got kids that don't get up, that drag, when you have multiple kids that you have to get to school at the same time, getting everybody ready, making sure you're out the door on time, everybody's got lunches, their backpack's packed.

Mornings can be ridiculously stressful for people.

Yeah, and you also, I always felt this pressure to not start the day with, hurry, hurry, hurry.

I've read all these things that say, don't start the day.

You're going to damage them forever if you're telling them to hurry.

And I always felt so much pressure to have it all be sunshine and rainbows in the morning and send them off to school happy and not rushed.

They can't be rushed.

If they're rushed, they'll have a bad day and you'll create anxious kids.

But sometimes you just have to freaking rush, right?

And sometimes it's hard, especially when you have one kid or more who don't wake up to their alarm, who hit the snooze five, six times.

You have to go in two to four or five times to get them up and out of bed.

Because as a parent, you're waking up and you're thinking about, I have these duties and tasks and everything is time sensitive.

I'm screwed and these kids are screwed if I don't get them out the door on time.

And then when you've got one, that is really dragging and really behind throughout the whole day, it can be very stressful because you have other kids that need to get to school too.

Or even if you have one kid, it's still really frustrating because now you're caring more than they care about getting up and out.

And it's a square peg round hole.

So your source of frustration and stress go up with that.

And it can be very stressful.

And it is not a great way to start the day.

That's your first hour.

Yeah.

And the other thing is life is on a timeline.

They will have to learn to get up every day.

So we're talking about mornings with our kids.

So for a big chunk of the population, it's a real challenge.

It's a very hard way to start the day when you've got kids that don't get up, that drag, when you have multiple kids that you have to get to school at the same time, getting everybody ready, making sure you're out the door on time, everybody's got lunches, their backpack's packed.

Mornings can be ridiculously stressful for people.

Yeah, and you also, I always felt this pressure to not start the day with, hurry, hurry, hurry.

I've read all these things that say, don't start the day.

You're going to damage them forever if you're telling them to hurry.

And I always felt so much pressure to have it all be sunshine and rainbows in the morning and send them off to school happy and not rushed.

They can't be rushed.

If they're rushed, they'll have a bad day and you'll create anxious kids.

But sometimes you just have to freaking rush, right?

And sometimes it's hard, especially when you have one kid or more who don't wake up to their alarm, who hit the snooze five, six times.

You have to go in two to four or five times to get them up and out of bed.

Because as a parent, you're waking up and you're thinking about, I have these duties and tasks and everything is time sensitive.

I'm screwed and these kids are screwed if I don't get them out the door on time.

And then when you've got one, that is really dragging and really behind throughout the whole day, it can be very stressful because you have other kids that need to get to school too.

Or even if you have one kid, it's still really frustrating because now you're caring more than they care about getting up and out.

And it's a square peg round hole.

So your source of frustration and stress go up with that.

And it can be very stressful.

And it is not a great way to start the day.

That's your first hour.

Yeah.

And the other thing is life is on a timeline.

They will have to learn to get up every day.