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Waking up in the morning for school is not an easy job at all.
As a student who works really hard at the school and then goes to the academy to get a better grip on the concepts, and then completes all their homework after getting back home from the academy, it is very important to get a night of proper sleep in before continuing the routine next day. And if we take the student out of the equation, even generally it is very important to get proper sleep for the body to function well, to sustain a healthy routine, and to stay energized working your way through that routine. But this craze of social media and online streaming services like Netflix etc. have made it really hard for us to sleep on time. Put on one show and 4 hours go by in a flash, there goes your sleep, there goes your entire coming day. And even though we fully know what the flaw in our routine is and how it can be corrected, we still do the same every night. What I have just narrated to you guys is totally on us. We choose to stay up at night and struggle through the day. But there is also another case, a case of someone else depriving you of that precious sleep. In such a case, you get waken up way before the right time and that isn’t correct either.
Today’s story is about a teenager student who gets waken up by their mother every morning at 4:30 a.m. sharp The student lives very near to the school so they could easily get in an hour and a half more of sleep in easily but the mother thinks otherwise. The rationale his mother provides for waking him up way too early is that she is praying him for the adult life and the corporate world. The student countered that they could easily wake up at 6 a.m. and get ready for school in time without any problems and that waking up at 4:30 a.m. was absolutely unnecessary. And then something happened.
Scroll down below to read through what happened once the teen got fed up of being woken up so early every morning.
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OP’s school started at 7:15 a.m. and so their argument for unnecessarily being wakened up at 4:30 a.m. does have some weight to it.
1. OP lives in close vicinity to their school so they have all the right to get in some extra sleep.
I mean we shouldn’t jump to any conclusions without knowing all facts but had the school been in a different city, I sill wouldn’t wake up 3 hours before school starts, that is just a violation of my previous sleep that I will not allow on my watch.
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2. Oh my god I absolutely hate that kind of waking up tool that parents use. This technique has always failed and has done nothing but ruin the mood and that’s all.
The Mom thinks 6:00 a.m. is just too late. Fair, everyone is allowed to have an opinion. But you don’t have the right to rush a person, who is sleeping, like that. Rushing ain’t got nobody anywhere. You could’ve been polite with the whole process and maybe then the kid might’ve never complained.
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3. The rationale his mother provided for waking him up his early was that she wanted to make him an early bird, the way she is, and she wants to prepare him for the adult life and the corporate world.
I think their are more key factors that need to be focused upon to prepare someone better for adulthood than to take precious sleep time away from them. Mom has good ambition but the way of achieving it is lowkey unfair to OP.
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4. You just cannot enforce yourself on anybody, OP has every right to do whatever they feel is right. Especially when it is something related to their sleep that has a direct link to health.
That was a bold move to lock the door and the strategy worked so I am fine with it, we can deal with the pissed Mom.
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5. Is she planning to unscrew all the hinges and actually take that door away? Well go ahead, we will fund him a new one.
A sound mind is way better than a weak, clumsy one and for that to happen, you need to get in some good sleep. What part of that Mom doesn’t understand.
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6. The news got spread pretty quick and the Reddit community weighed in on the matter.
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I believe OP was NTA. Where does it say that waking up at 4:30 a.m. instead of 6:00 a.m. makes you a better adult? I would like to read that literature. This is just BS and ways of making the other conform but I am glad OP realizes the true worth of getting proper sleep in and didn’t budge to any blackmailing. The mother should understand what she is doing. She is mentally exhausting that kid and how can you expect someone to succeed if they are too busy catering to their mental illness because someone wanted them to wake up early.
Here’s are some of the responses of Redditors:
7. Even this early bird thinks 4:30 is too early.
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8. The behavior of OP is concerning as such behavior can directly impact the mental health of the kid directly.
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9. I don’t know when OP goes to sleep but surely waking up at 4:30 gets you to 8 hours.
For that, he would need to sleep at 8:30 p.m. That is absurd.
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10. Basically just let them sleep, they know how much is good enough for them.
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11. You wouldn’t expect your own mother to do such a thing.
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This one was definitely a major shock to me. Like I did not expect OP’s own mother to impose such a dumb waking up routine on them. It is unclear to me why is she so fond of waking him at that specific time. Like if you wake up at that, then enjoy your life. Why burden others.
Anyways, what is your vote on this? Share in the comments section down below.