Parents Support One Another @ MyOutOfControlTeen.com/support = I need help with the following issue:
I have a 14 year old daughter that does not want to get up in the morning (I know everyone else has the same issue), she is doing not well in school, has no interest in cleaning her room or helping when asked and is skipping and the biggest issues she seems to have is that she apparently misses her father (who has been gone for nearly 6 years and is remarried and pays no support or contacts her, but plays the hero at Christmas and Birthdays. Any suggestions would be welcome and appreciated while I am starting the program and on page 22 of the ebook!
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Does she have a t.v. in her room? If so, are you sure she's not staying up late watching it? I'd check into that then afterwards talk to her before she goes to bed and tell her what you are going to do to wake her to get her mind ready ready for it. I was like that and sometimes still am. I have to tell myself before I go to bed how I am going to wake myself to get mentally ready in the morning.
I keep reading studies that say that teenagers just naturally need more sleep than any other age group. While an adult may be able to get by with 6 or 7 hours of sleep, I think I remember that teens need at least 9... at an absolute minimum.
Their internal clock shifts to a more nocturnal setting, and they naturally feel the inclination to go to sleep later and get up later. She'll probably grow out of it.
This is what my parents do to me! and it works
1) They open the shades in my bedroom, if I don't wake up...
2) Take my blanket away, still if I won't wake up...
3) Make my sisters jump me
4) Take the TV from my room and make me sleep much earlier!
If these don't work then I don;t know what elese to tell you
I was the exact same when I was younger. I just loved sleeping - but I would also not get good grades, rarely bothered going to school, but didnt do drugs.
To this day I have conversations with my wife in the morning nad have no idea about them until she tells me. Ill even sit up, eyes open and talk for 10 minutes without haveing any idea later.
My method of waking up used to be to have an Alanis Morsette CD come on at full volume.(I hated her music and her rants with a passion) I would put something over the "Power" button so I couldnt press it. I would put the remote in a different place everynight so I actually had to get up out of bed and search for it - all while the most annoying "music" on the planet was blaring at full volume.
Theres nothing wrong with your daughter - maybe she is a little stressed, maybe a little depressed, but thats nothing to worry about unless it is out of control.
Teenagers physically need more sleep. Think about it, every teenager does this, it can't possibly be that wide spread of a phenomenon. Anyway, try getting her to go to sleep earlier. This will be nearly impossible for a sixteen year old, but it would be good for her. Also, if she refuses to sleep earlier, don't wake her up. If she gets up late, that will be her problem. Of course she'll have to care for this to work, so if you don't think this will have an effect then don't bother. Good luck and God bless!!!
Well, I had that problem when I was a teenager. My mother (who, by the way, NEVER abused me) remembers dragging me out of bed and down the stairs by my ankles, and I don't even remember that at all.
After 10 years of tests and a whole lot of problems, I was diagnosed with thyroid problems AND sleep apnea. So after all this time, we found out that it wasn't all in my head. I'd say it's worth it to have your daughter checked out.
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