School has started and my teen refuses to use an alarm, leaving me to do the wakeup myself. As thr door is locked, I cannot gently awaken them. So, I decided music was great and chose the following 3 songs (played in this order and the reaction):
- Viva La Vida - Coldplay
- [quiet groans from inside, no movement]
- Baby Shark
- [whimpers and the sound of pillows shuffling]
- Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & Roses
- [door flew open, I was forced to flee]
So three songs seems to be the sweet spot. I’d like to keep it fresh and change daily so they can’t adapt. Please give me your 3-song playlist so I can continue to psychologically torture wake my child for school every day.
The only song I’m playing for a teenager who can’t get themselves up on time in my house is the theme song to being grounded. At this age they are perfectly capable of accepting responsibility for getting up on time.
You’re not wrong, but you are missing out on the fun of making a playlist.
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Alternatively: bring them to the doctor or schedule a sleep study to figure out what’s going on.
I don’t understand how parents can fail their children so consistently. It takes so little empathy and reason to see someone struggling and ask “how can I help them achieve the best outcome” instead of “how can I immediately force the outcome I want”. Especially for a loved one!
I can only imagine such parents are so self-absorbed that their empathy and reason were sucked up into their own assholes at some point along with the rest of their humanity and then shit out their mouths during an inevitably bloviated, assinine, masturbatory tirade.