Our 4 year old wakes up everyday for school with an alarm, we love the tranquility we have achieved with this. Every morning she comes to our bedroom with a big cheery smile and a loud "Hello Guys, time to wake up!!" I tell ya, it wakes us all up with lovely smiles and the house gets going for the day without much hassle. And then comes Sunday morning when we parents want to sleep in late, stay and cuddle under covers for as long as we can and catch up on the rest we have been craving for throughout the week. But a 4 year old is an absolute individual. Alarm or not, she wakes up at the same time and rushes to greet us with that big cheery HELLO GUYS and both of us go, nooo, go back to bed, sleep some more, I am sleepy, pick up a book and use your newly acquired reading skills ! Of course, all those meek requests get rejected and she keeps pulling us out of the bed. "Come sweety, why don't you join us and snuggle under covers??" Many of the times this offer works and she happily jumps in. Now do we all sleep some more? You would think so but she is a 4 and she is a girl. So once she is awake, she has the obligation to be chatty. "Mamma, I am thinking about a thing"
ummmmmm, ya?
"Ya, I am thinking about a thing that needs to be in stores for people to buy"
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"I am thinking about flowers that we can eat"
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"You know a snack in the shape of flowers. But they will not be ready to eat flowers. They will be in a box which has three sections. One section will have the center of the flower in circle shape, another section will have its petals and one more section will have the stem. So the person who wants to eat that snack, will open the box and make a flower by putting all the given pieces together and then will have a flower snack ready to eat. It will be so much fun to eat the snack because you get to make it too"
Now that did bring me out of slumber and I thought wow I was never that creative!
"And you know, they will be edible flowers, so they will be safe to eat but very colorful like real flowers. Can you buy that snack for me next time we go to the supermarket?"
Well, I am not sure if they have any such thing in stores for us to buy.
"You can try mamma and if they don't have it then we will make it and put it on the grocery stores shelves. We will sell edible flowers" !!!!!
I am thinking we should all get up early on Sundays, who knows when we think of the next big idea.
Make cookie flowers from Pilsbury sugar cookie dough and let her cut and paint the flowers. Edible! ;D
ReplyDeleteAsha, I talked to her about flower shaped cookies but she said no, not the cookies mamma, they needs to be like Pepperidge farm fish snacks!! I will be googling for the recipe and hopefully find something.
ReplyDeleteyou get big ideas.. I get big kicks... after meeting out dire threats if another word is uttered, there is loud humming in my ears a kid on my back and kick in my butt! sigh!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the clock is going anti-clockwise! Normally it is the other way round-parents wake up their children actually..(lolzz) sweet post Sandhya
ReplyDeleteThat was the case few months back but this works much better, she feels like a big girl and we get hassle free mornings!
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed!! Wake up on her own and then come up with brilliant business ideas :)
ReplyDeleteLove that "I am thinking about a thing" ... and the determined, "You can try mamma..."
They aren't called grand moms for nothing!!
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But it also reflects on how YOU talk to her!
IHM, so glad to see you here!Thank you for your lovely comment. She is definitely a determined little 4 year old!
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Sandhya... 'wake up on her own'.. How on earth did you manage that??!! You will have to share the tips!! I've got a six year old.. who wakes up fine and is the perfect child.. But my second one.. (to be 4 end of this month!!)... is an absolute nightmare. She requires & demands.. atleast 1/2 an hour of waking up... This has been going on for about two years now... So please.. please.. share the tip!!
ReplyDeletePatricia, welcome to the blog!
ReplyDeleteI was spending about 15 minutes everyday to make her open her eyes in the morning and that really gave us a bad start for the day. SO i requested Saumya and asked her to think "What would be a better way to wake up so both of us can have a peaceful start" She herself came up with this idea of alarm clock, just the way daddy wakes up, so we both went to Target and she chose the clock herself! It's been more than a year now, (fingers crossed), its going smooth!