{"id":2800,"date":"2021-05-19T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/en-gb\/top-tips-on-how-to-maintain-a-smooth-wake-up\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:49:49","slug":"top-tips-on-how-to-maintain-a-smooth-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/top-tips-on-how-to-maintain-a-smooth-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips On How to Maintain a Smooth Wake-Up Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br><em>As if we haven&rsquo;t had to deal with enough in trying to get our children to go to sleep, just when we think we&rsquo;ve cracked it they can suddenly throw us a curveball so wide we didn&rsquo;t even see it coming; they refuse to wake up when we need them to, because it&rsquo;s Winter, and it&rsquo;s dark!<\/em><br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>When it&rsquo;s pitch black outside it can be very difficult to rouse a deeply sleeping child. But the school and working day doesn&rsquo;t wait, alas, and we need to find some ways of making sure our children wake up and get up when they need to, feeling refreshed and rested.<br>&nbsp;<br>Here are some suggestions for when the winter months play havoc with the morning wake-up routine.<\/p><ul><li>Put kids to bed a little earlier. This isn&rsquo;t too difficult when it&rsquo;s dark at 5pm. Unlike in the summer, when bed time is a real struggle while the sun is still up at 10 o&rsquo;clock, it&rsquo;s much easier to get an earlier night in the winter. And remember that in winter we need more sleep than in the summer. It&rsquo;s a tiring season, so try to move your children&rsquo;s bedtime a little earlier if you can.<\/li><li>Open their curtains about twenty minutes before you want them to get up. It might not do much, but it could just rouse them that little bit before it&rsquo;s really time to get up.<\/li><li>Put the lights on in the room outside their bedroom, to lighten things a little. Again, it&rsquo;s all about slowly bringing them round to waking up, when it&rsquo;s so dark outside.<\/li><li>Set an alarm a little earlier than you need, and let them have a little snooze before getting up. In the winter it&rsquo;s harder to wake up and get up feeling ready for the bright, sunny day, so a few little false starts can ease the day in more gently.<\/li><p><\/p><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<br>Enough sleep is vital to keep coughs and colds at bay and to stay strong and healthy for the cold, draining months ahead.<br>&nbsp;<br>And if it all seems a little doom and gloom, remember that the spring WILL COME round in a flash! And it will be warm and lovely again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;As if we haven&rsquo;t had to deal with enough in trying to get our children to go to sleep, just when we think we&rsquo;ve cracked it they can suddenly throw us a curveball so wide we didn&rsquo;t even see it coming; they refuse to wake up when we need them to, because it&rsquo;s Winter, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/top-tips-on-how-to-maintain-a-smooth-wake-up\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":68297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":249,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"member-type":[42],"vertical":[64,48,84],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en-gb","member-type-all-en-gb","vertical-child-care-tutoring-careers-en-gb","vertical-children-en-gb","vertical-child-care-advice-en-gb","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2014-11-04","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}