Are having a hard time getting up this morning. We have a full day. Plan to squirrel hunt deer scout a woods we have not been to yet this year. Go to bow shop and get my wifes bow adjusted for my youngest and get new arrows and sights, get new tires on my 16 year olds car, drop head off for cwd testing then get home and maybe get some wood brought in or at least get the load off the truck or drop the boys off to deer hunt?

See the pattern out side of maybe geting wood its all for the boys, yet im the only one up and neither have came down after I have shaken them awake. Geting to the point when they want to do something im going to stay in bed untill they wake me up. Flip the script if you will. Will get to sleep in more times than not I suspect.

Just venting a bit of frustration. After a day like this I will be shot for 1 or two days even in a lazy supervisor non driving roll and the kids wont get up and get moving. When I was a kid I would have been up and waiting ready to go.

It sounds like from this and your previous posts, you're a pretty driven go getter and likely always have been. My dad was the same way and although I dont consider myself lazy, when I was a young man I do remember the way he did things, it made everything seem like work. It didnt help that with his work schedule he'd be up at 3:30 every morning at the latest and we got busy as soon as his feet hit the ground. We'd mix in chores such as going to get horses shod, which I absolutely despised horses, with enjoyable things that were to my benefit. At times, it made it all seem like work. Things like tires on the boys truck I would've appreciated at the time but its not something I would've probably been excited to wake up for. I also hit a growth spurt from 14-16 where I grew about 10 inches and could've slept 20 hrs a day for those 2 years if given the chance. I remember everything being a chore at that time. Having said all that, your a good dad and I dont regret my upbringing. I do many things different than my dad but I wouldnt have found my own methods without doing it his way for all those years.

it's a struggle

unfortunately you are living in different worlds

you are seeing an end and probably feel rushed to do it all before you can't.

they see the rest of their lives ahead of them.

Also this is probably closer to the pace things take when you were off at work.
They could match your energy for a couple days but rested while you were away working.

it's 7:38 your time now and they are probably up. and you got moving , time will probably never move the same for you as you struggle with the MS.

don't let the frustration turn to anger but maybe do put on music and make it a little louder and a little louder.

Everyday I have left with my father is a blessing as well as every day I have left with my son........either could be gone tomorrow. I am truly blessed to be living in a season when I have both. Fathers train your children up in the way they should go, as well pray for their hearts and their minds to be fixed on Jesus and teach them to be humble warriors.

When my son played travel hockey, they had practice every morning, at 6am, before school. I would wake him up at 5:15 and he would hop right out of bed. He would drink a cup of coffee on the way to the ice arena. He liked his hockey.

Boils down to how bad somebody wants something and how used they are of people conforming to their wishes and giving them what they want, when they want it. My 26 year old would get up at 5:30 in the morning during detasseling season when he was 14 and I don't recall ever having to wake him up. I have a 16 yr old step-son that is the absolute opposite right now.

Dixie cup of sand in their bed will get them up early.

Mom would yank the covers back and put a frozen loaf of bread on our backs. I rarely "played possum" after that a few times.

When they move out...then you'll be happy

They probably dont want to do all that stuff.

I can't remember my dad taking me hunting as a teen, he may have helped me track a deer or something. As teenagers they are young men, give em a bit of rein.

They are at an age where they need more sleep. My dad always seemed to like waking me up early, mostly for no apparent reason. I would go to school until 3:00pm, start work at 3:30pm, work until after 11:00, get home close to midnight and be in bed by 1:00am. He would still wake me up around 7:00am on weekends. Now, if I call him before 9:00am and sometimes even after 10:00am, he is in bed still. I should probably wake him up early more, for vengeance, but I'm not that big of a jerk.

Keith

If you want to wake up a lazy lump grab one leg of the bed at the foot of the bed and give it a good hard jerk straight up in the air.Doing that will leave the lazy lump on the floor up against the wall with the bed matress and all upside down on top of him.
Had to do that quite a few times as a gang foreman on the Railroad.

Yep, or maybe it's too much for them in one day. Your teens are not you.
Ease up for a while and let them make the call. There minds are probably on a thousand other things, like girls.
One thing I learned and continue to learn from my GREAT grandchildren is.....they don't always want you to make their agenda. Some like to "wing it" or a lot of times teens and kids just change their minds. No reason given.

Im required for transportation. The oldest can't drive alone yet. I believe the problem is the exact opposite. Mom has given them to much slack.

They want to lay in bed let them. If you are hunting go off and leave them. If not find something else to do. Or sit down and watch the morning unfold. Nothing like a chair on the porch as the temps rise each day.

True story in town when I was 18.

A local kid named Roger was driven hard by his old man..

It finally boiled ovah...And Roger shot his old man dead.

Maybe he stacked the wood wrong or something...

Times have changed.

When I was a teenager, my dad would wake me up between 330 and 4 everyday 7 days a week. There was always something that needed to be done whether it was dealing with cows, horses, or hay. He was a DI in the marine corpse before I was born and was very good at getting people awake, sometimes I dreaded it, but most of the time I looked forward to it. He has been dead for 14 years, I still wake up between 330 and 4 every day. My boys get up around 430 and I don't wake them up, I will tell them what time we are leaving for something and if they aren't awake, they stay home with my wife, it only takes a couple of times of being left out and they are usually ready waiting on me now.