<p>5:40!? Who CAN get up at that hour?</p>
<p>jhsu-Academic studies show that school start times arent conducive to teenagers' bodyclocks. Plus, what's wrong with ambition?</p>
<p>Exactly Vyse. </p>
<p>My d is in a zero hour class which starts at 6:30 a.m. She has to leave the house at 6:00 a.m. because she fights commuter traffic all the way to the h.s. She is a slow mover in the morning and begs me to help make sure she is wake at 4:30, so she can have time to shower and become more alert. NObody just jumps out of bed at 4:30 a.m., not even farmers.</p>
<p>She's ambitious...she could have avoided the class if she were willing to give up her yearbook class/editorship or her favorite anatomy class. But I think it's commendable that she was willing to sacrifice for a good reason. My husband and I actually advised her to drop a class, but she would have no part of it. So she just needs a little help with the getting up part. I assume she will be fine on her own in college when she has more control over her schedule and can opt for later classes.</p>
<p>Speaking of 4:30 a.m.....what the heck am I doing on the computer at almost 1 a.m.??!! Night all! :-)</p>
<p>Get a $5 alarm clock from Walmart (radio or alarm options-choose the alarm-it's frighteningly abrasive). Put it across the room so he has to get up out of bed to turn it off.</p>
<p>Tell your son that from this moment on he's responsible for getting himself out of bed on time. Leave him be. See what happens.</p>
<p>4:30am? Okay...your D wins. Bleh. My D took the AM class for six of eight hs semesters, unwilling to compromise on her course load and Band and Orchestra. But she only had to be out the door a 7am. Still nutso when you consider adolescent sleep patterns. But as it is, if the schedule had shifted later, 6th period would have knocked out her ballet EC and she would have had to drop 6th period classes. </p>
<p>I think it's funny in some ways that she generally gets more sleep in college than she did in high school though in high school she <em>never</em> stayed up until 4am.</p>
<p>lol Dad! </p>
<p>I told my dh the 4:30 mornings bring back memories of when dd was a newborn. I guess it's appropriate to have this little reminder; next year at this time, she'll be out of the nest and I'll probably miss these little inconveniences.</p>