Arem, it only all days with children were so easy.. I relished every one of those. Never had many though.
Could rarely get my son up in the morning. We would have to start about an hour ahead. Some of the ways were - 4 alarms. an air horn, a grenade I would throw into the room and the high pitched sound wouldn't stop until it was picked up and the pin was put back in. Flipping him out of the mattress didn't help either. He would just sleep on the floor.
Yes, school mornings, my favorite time of day. ughhhhh followed by homework time in the evening...So so glad those days are gone.

LOL! Viv, that sounds just like my son. Mornings are a huge pain in my house.

Viv - I love the grenade idea : ) I'll have to try that tomorrow morning!

Pellet guns work good too. ;)

I don't miss those days at all! It was never a problem getting my oldest son up in the morning but my youngest, that was a war every morning. One of the happiest day of my life was his last day of school.

Pellet guns, grenades - good ideas : ) I think my mornings waking up my sons might actually get a lot more fun : ) I think I'll need to get some recordings of some Marine Corps Drill Instructors too - they always got me up on time : )

Arem, here is info on grenade
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20051003/grenade-alarm/

Thanks Viv - but seems that is is no longer available for sale.

You've all, however, sparked my creative juices - so I'll get a bit more crafty with the daily wake-up process. : )

I'm sure it's sold on other sites? No? Was it taken off the market because it looked to real?

Another thing we had was an alarm that vibrated the bed, well I should say it vibrated the whole house.. Everyone else woke up and he slept like nothing was happening.

Dumping water with ice in it on him Arem worked well for me as a last resort. Yes, it made a mess but was well worth the "I don't believe you did that mom" look on his face. ;o)

Viv - in SoCal we call that an earthquake : )

Leather - Funny you mentioned that : ) - my older one threw water on my younger one the other morning. Needless to say it was a dramatic morning of them screaming at each other and the younger one kind of pretending to cry. For boys they're a couple of little drama queens : ). So I had to chew out the older one because he soaked the younger one's bed. So I guess I can't then go and douse him after I chewed him out about it.

I'll just have to come up with some other devious, ingenious, and surprising plans - ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ... cough .... cough... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

.....ok ok ... sorry .... that's really enough of that cartoon evil villain stuff : )

Cymbals and or a horn might be good

Oh wow- I actually have the day to myself. ;)

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I usually prefer the cool, rainy days but the sun feels really nice today