The Total Transformation Program tells parents to stop taking responsibility for getting their kids out of bed on time. If you repeatedly bang on your child’s door to get them up, or you drag them out of bed, you are working harder to wake up your child than they are.

• Waking Up Kids For School

Back to school means getting kids adjusted to a new schedule. Anything that messes with a routine can be hard, not to mention super stressful. How can we wake up kids for school in a way that makes our mornings easier and less grumpy?

Lyrics to 'Eenie Meenie' song by Sean Kingston: Eenie meenie miney mo Catch a bad chick by her toe If she holler (if, if, if she holler) let her go. Lyrics to 'Eenie Meenie' by Justin Bieber: Shawty yeah is an eenie meenie miney mo lover' Shawty is an eenie meenie miney mo lover' Shawty is an eenie meenie. Eenie meenie miney moe Catch a bad chick by her toe If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go Eenie meenie miney moe. Eenie meenie justin bieber. Both Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe and Eenie Meenie Sicileeny are methods children use to choose one from a group (for instance, who goes first in a game). Children sing each word and point to each kid in turn, until they get to the end of the song.

Here’s your back to school plan. It was 6:30 AM on the first day back to school last year. I put my hand on my daughter’s fluffy floral comforter and shook her. Gently, of course.

OK OK it was harder this time. Because this was the fifth time I walked into her room that morning to pull her from bed. This morning was close to becoming a chaotic mess.

Waking Up Kids For School

What could really happen? I knew that now, she wouldn’t have enough time to shower before school. I time her for 10 minutes in the shower but after all the 5-minute extensions I give her, her shower time is closer to 30. She would want me to dig through all the tangles in her long brown hair and then braid it. A task I’d feel like a jerk for refusing because we’d be horribly late. Pull up to the school, running to the classroom kind of late.