Early up and early to bed

That’s the motto junior lives by. He is up around 6 in the morning, and goes to bed around 19.30. So what do you do when junior is up 6 in the morning in the weekends and Mama & Papa wants to sleep a bit longer?

What I do is I go down in the kitchen, make some breakfast for junior and put on cartoon network (a tv channel). Junior will stay put, eat his breakfast and watch cartoons until Mama & Papa get up, which is around 9. Junior is now 4 years old and old enough to know not to mess around until Mama & Papa is awake.

Is this a good way of babysitting ? No, definitely not. However what can you do after a hard week of work, and you need a few extra hours of sleep? We’ve tried alternating who gets up early, so one of the parents is up with junior, however it doesn’t work. Both of us are tired and a few hours extra Saturday and Sunday recharge our batteries for next week.

If you are doing something else, and it works, do share with us…