My daughter has not been able to attend school since January; she found the transition to comprehensive school extremely difficult particularly the social side. We are now having a break and reset from school, potentially looking at an alternative way of learning. A major difficulty at the moment is waking her in the mornings (as well as helping her to settle at a reasonable time). We have tried lots of different strategies to helping her settle earlier at night but i think becoming a teenager along with having a very busy brain makes it difficult. This obviously impacts waking in the mornings. I'm trying to encourage a daily routine of waking and sleeping times but have a battle in the morning when waking her before she feels ready to leave her bed. If I let her come round when she is ready with repeated gentle reminders of the time she will eventually wake and is calm (around 10.30am). If I push her with any demands like, its time to get up, and persist with the request, she becomes dysregulated which can then turn into a long meltdown which she finds difficulty calming from. We are trying to keep demands low as I believe she is in a process of recovering from the trauma of starting comprehensive school (and masking for many years). Any advice would be much appreciated? What are your morning routines?
