It's Saturday. My kids know it's Saturday. But apparently their internal clocks disagree with the concept of sleeping past 6am. Meanwhile I'm over here like "remember when we could sleep until 8?" My 9yo was literally jumping on the bed at 5:47am asking if it was time for breakfast yet. Time to invest in blackout curtains or just accept my fate?
Black out curtains helped us a little bit. Not a total fix but pushed things back about 20 minutes which felt like winning the lottery.
5:45am is somehow worse than a regular school day wake up. It's like their internal clocks specifically choose the most annoying time possible on the one day you could sleep in.
My wife swears it's biological but I think they just wake up excited. Either way, it's brutal. There's no winning this one.
It's like their bodies don't understand that the weekend means different rules. We tried everything including keeping them up late and it made no difference. They just know Saturday comes and something is different.
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Have you tried just letting them wake up and go play quietly? We set up a little station with some activities and told them they can't wake us up before 7. Took a few weeks but it actually worked.