Thursday 13

13 ways to get a teenager out of bed! (grrrhhhh!)

1. Call from your room into his room "It's time to get up" in a light, almost sing song tone of voice.
2. 5 minutes later call "It's time to get up" in a much flatter tone of voice and louder this time.
3. 10 minutes after that bang on his door and tell him he "needs to get up".
4. Decide that since he has no lectures until 12 and is working late at his part time job after college tonight to let him lie in a little while.
5. 2 hours later decide that no, he needs to get up now and call from the bottom of the stairs "It really is time to get up now."
6. Wait a short while then call upstairs and tell him he's had a long enough lie in already.
7. Use the phone extensions to call the upstairs phone from the downstairs one. The upstairs phone is out on the landing, so he will at least have to get out of his bed and out of his room to deal with it.
8. Go into his room and open the curtains.
   
9. Tell him you haven't got all morning, that you need to go to work soon and he needs to get up.
10. Find the whistle you use to control the rowdier games at Sunday's Cool and stand at the bottom of the stairs and blow a lovely tune on it!
11. Go into his room and open the window, it's November now and that means cold!
    
12. Give him one last warning and then . . . . .
    
13. Resort to the cup of water thrown over the sleeping person! Yes it's going to make the bed wet, but he can deal with that, he's had plenty of opportunity to get himself up.

I'll leave it up to you to guess how far we got with this list today.

Thursday 13

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