How to Get Out of Bed
Monday November 24, 2008
If you're like many teens, you can barely drag yourself out of bed every morning--especially when the weather turns cold. That only leads to trouble, because getting up late often means getting to school late. Here are a few tricks and gadgets that might help:
- Keep a small refrigerator in your room, near your bed. As soon as you wake up you can reach for cold water or a caffeinated beverage. You could also keep a cold wet cloth there and wipe your face off until you're wide awake.
- Wake to your favorite tunes with a WAKE-UP© iPod Speaker and Alarm Clock. This works with your own iPod to wake you up--but you don't have to get up to hit the snooze button! It comes with a full function remote control.
- If you're really a heavy sleeper, you might need to get a bed-shaking alarm clock. That's right--the Sonic Boom Alarm Clock with Telephone Signaler and Bed Shaker shakes your bed, flashes lights, and sounds alarms. No way you can sleep through this!
If you have a tip for getting out of bed in the mornings, feel free to share!
Comments
Many teenagers sleep like logs- until their cell phones ring! You can ask a reliable friend to give you a morning wake-up call; or, you can try one of the online services like Snoozester.com which forward scheduled calls to your cell phone.
Most of these tips are great but a refridgerator???? In a world of already-spoiled children, I see getting a mini fridge for the sole purpose of helping to wake yourself up as extragvagent. We’re talking about waking up! Come on! Have a little will-power people!
I guess I wonder when you balance the child’s responsibility with the parents’ responsibility.
Do parents try to do too much for their children and try to rescue them? At what point do parents jump in so that their kids won’t ruin their lives, but still develop a sense of responsibility?
In high school, my parents were out of the house before I had to get out of bed. So I had to learn how to wake up and be responsible for myself. My parents assumed that I would do this. If I did not go to school on time, I am sure they would have disciplined me in some way. However, they left the responsibility with me instead of them.
Think of something you can look forward to doing/be excited about doing right after you get out of bed (eat yummy breakfast, do a favorite yoga pose, try a new makeup look, pick out your awesome outfit for the day). That way you can think about that activity instead of thinking about going back to sleep, so you will actually wannt to wake up. it works for me and a lot of my friends, may not work for other people