My (almost) 8 year old is usually up by 7:30 on the weekends. He has to get up at 6:30 during the week, so he is sleeping in a little. My 11 year old slept until 10:00 this morning when I finally woke her to watch her brother while I went to a meeting (my husband was upstairs sleeping, so they weren't home alone). She will sleep till noon if we let her. He is the one who is so hard to wake during the week though. He would get up on his own if he could sleep till 7. That extra half hour makes him miserable, but I have to be to work by 7:15 and since I work at his school that means he has to be there early too.
I still sleep in every weekend. My kids don't wake me up and they can handle things on their own for a few minutes. We have an alarm system so I don't worry about them too much. They get cereal or poptarts or french toast that I have made and frozen ahead of time and watch TV or play at the computer until someone gets up with them.
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