I'm watching a popular morning talk show here in Toronto and they're talking about when kids should be learning certain things. Some people in the audience said that they were still waking their teenagers up in the morning for school. The guest expert said that by grade 4, kids should be able to work an alarm clock and get themselves up for school.
Because my parents worked and left in the morning, I started waking up to an alarm clock by grade 2.
You?
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Same here, my parents worked so I started waking up my brother and I in grade school.
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
Umm.... college? My mom totally made sure I got up on time even when I was in high school.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Honestly, I don't remember. Definitely in high school I was waking up on my own, and I suspect much earlier than that, but I don't really remember.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
We started very young, I would say second grade or so.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
my mom had to wake us up every morning through high school. i've always been a night owl.
persimmon / 1453 posts
Gosh, I can't even remember when we started using our own alarm clocks. It's early enough that I can't remember the exact time.
persimmon / 1202 posts
I didn't use an alarm clock until college. But I woke up by seven until I was 14 or 15, and even had a 4 year span where I woke up at five. I did a correspondence course for high school, so no need to wake up early for that.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
I don't remember.. I've never been a morning person. 
I used to wake up literally 5 minutes before it was time to leave for school when I was in highschool.
apricot / 461 posts
College. I am not a morning person, my parent's had to drag me out of bed to get me to school. I had an alarm clock, and could work it quite well, I used the snooze feature on it A LOT!!
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
@MamaMoose: hahaha. "Ummm....college?" was going to be my exact reply.
GOLD / pomelo / 5167 posts
My parents worked too... but I think I would wake myself up in about 3rd or 4th grade.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I didn't have to wake up on my own until I moved out for college. My mom was a SAHM and she woke up hours before we did, so she was always around to wake us up.
pineapple / 12234 posts
I was in third grade when I started setting my alarm but my dad was always up early and would make sure I was awake until about my Junior year when I had started working before school so I had to be up by 4am.
pear / 1787 posts
Um...grad school? 
I'm a very bad go-to-sleeper and a very bad waker-upper. My parents helped me wake up through high school, most days, and during some bad periods in undergrad my mom would give me a quick call to make sure I was awake. I felt embarrassed about it, but she didn't mind doing it and it was better than getting a reduced grade in my early classes because of absences (which I got frequently from oversleeping).
I still need at least three alarms to ensure that I wake up in the morning.
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