Since I separated from my Ex I have become a morning person. Except the 30% of the time when I have my kids.
I’m thinking about this right now because this weekend was the exception that proved the rule. My kids went to sleep before 9:30 and I went to sleep before 9:30 each night, and I woke before 5 and got my morning routines done while they stayed asleep. And this was notable because it was the first time that has ever happened whilst I slept in the same house as children.
Does this matter? Yes it does. It’s kind of clear to me after an adolescence and young adulthood of being a night owl that being a morning person provides me with certain advantages that are basically as advertised.
In other words: I think being a morning person is something that is not to be missed if possible, and that you basically can’t do it when you have kids.
But I did accomplish it this weekend, and based on my experience, I have these advices:
1) play hard with the kids during the day, For example, tie a rope to a tube and pull them around the yard until you want to puke, and leave them alone to exhaust their energies further
2) Get them to bed on time then immediately plug your phone in far from your bed (or couch as it may be) and go to sleep yourself. Sleep when they sleep, as you were told when they were infants.
3) wake early and turn on a soundtrack of white noise on a bluetooth speaker in the hallway between their rooms at max volume. Navigate the house in pure darkness. Grind your coffee as the large trucks go by.
I’m just kidding. I just got lucky this weekend. It’s actually impossible to be a morning person if you have kids.