Oh I wasn’t bailing. It was my turn to feed the kids today. Even if I’d made him stay home, I’d still have gone. But since this is a team effort, his coach and team also depend on him. Oh no. He went. And we will figure out the penalty for this morning’s little snafu when he gets home. This is going to stop. Right now.
Posted by Raye on 10/02/04 at 12:27 PM
LOL, you do sound serious!
Posted by Jennifer AKA Me on 10/02/04 at 01:30 PM
’loudly and clearly’
You just have to love a woman who uses adverbs properly!
Oh lord, been there, done that and Jen is right, they do know we have an eagle ear to the door to be sure they are up and about.
However, I might suggest (based on experience) that the alarm, whether it be simply an alarm or a radio or whatever, be moved to the other side of the room with substantial volume. We discovered through trial and error that older son would hear the click just before it went on and would hit the off or snooze button before it ever went on (and before he really woke up) and then he would roll over and go back to sleep. By moving the clock radio away from the body in the bed, he could not do that without physically getting out of bed!!
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Oh say. That’s just one among many reasons, Steve. 
Posted by Raye on 10/04/04 at 07:13 AM
Cyn—we gave the ‘alarm clock on the other side of the room’ trick a go a couple of years ago. And it worked superbly. I stumbled out of bed to turn the wretched thing off and woke the lad up while I was there.
This is the kid who could sleep through a twenty-one gun bedside salute.
I’m convinced that living successfully with an alarm clock is as much a state of mind as actual noise. We train the brain to expect it and respond to it. We train the brain to think of the alarm clock as about the most indispensable part of the morning.
We’re missing that crucial step. Jen does have a point. The consequence for ignoring it or sleeping through it should be so painful that the brain recoils in horror at the mere thought of ignoring the alarm.
The coach, on Saturday, made some inroads there. He exacted a couple of pounds of flesh, I believe....
And I took a couple more.
The alarm went off this morning without a hitch. And....the lad decided that going to bed before midnight is an integral part of alarm clock operation. I think he’s on to something. ;)
Posted by Raye on 10/04/04 at 07:24 AM
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Don’t bail him out next time. Let him miss it. In the back of their minds they know we will bail them. It only took once for Amanda. What a shock when Mom say, TOO BAD!