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I'm looking forward to the day my kids don't wake me up at 7, every day. (They are 5 and 2)

I almost don't have the heart to tell you but... by the time they get old enough to start sleeping in, you'll be too old to. After about 40, you'll wake up on Saturday thinking, "oh my gosh, it must be nearly noon!" and realize it's only 8:30 and you're wide awake.

Sleeping in until 8:30 sounds amazing. Much better than the current 6:00 my toddler prefers.

"After about 40, you'll wake up on Saturday thinking, "oh my gosh, it must be nearly noon!" and realize it's only 8:30 and you're wide awake."

Good news: if you maintain your exercise regimen - especially your resistance/weight training - you can maintain the ability to sleep 8 or 9 or 10 hours in a night.

Since we got kids we had a system with my wife: Saturdays I sleep in, Sundays she does. It really kept us sane.

My wife and I have the same process, and it's worth its weight in... well, processes have no inherent weight, but, anyway, it's amazing. Highly-recommended. Also gives the awake parent some valuable quality time with the kids, build some traditions unique to that one set of relationships.

I get top sleep in till 8 both days, after that its all systems go.

the wife doesn't sleep heavily so she wakes earlier and just leaves me alone :-P

Don't worry, pretty soon you will be trying to wake them up every morning.

So do I... they are 5 and 6...

9 and 6 here. I'm at a point that I can feed them and get them placated (electronics, cartoons, whatever) and go back to sleep for another hour or two on the weekends. So I guess that's a mild improvement.

School days they, of course, refuse to get out of bed.

My 6 year old is a morning person and I am not. She puts on Katie Perry via the Amazon Echo, tidies up and lets the dog out so those excuses don't exist for me to get out of bed, then she goes and crafts/draws/watches a show for a couple hours and enjoys her alone time while I slowly wake up. Unless we have something planned to go do, she gets really irritated if I get out of bed before 9 o'clock and disrupt her morning alone time.

She started doing it on her own when she was 4, but it really started to mesh when I realized what she was doing and set it up for her to eat breakfast without my help (set out a cup and bowl/plate, put juice/milk into a smaller container and move it to the bottom shelf of the fridge, set out muffins or cereal or whatever she's into at the time, etc).

She also sleeps like a rock, so my night-owl habits don't wake her. It's an absolutely amazing routine and I'm terrified of when she grows out of it.

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