There’s nothing fun about being woken up by your children but luckily a mum of four has come up with top idea.

The Liverpool Echo has reported how blogger Becky Mansfield thinks she might have solved the problem.

All parents know how it can often go – one child wakes up early and starts doing something noisy, waking up the rest of the house.

Sleep is essential to development in children of all ages

Mum-of-four Becky has reported on her blog, , that her solution is to calculate how many hours of nighttime sleep each child needs, based on their age, and give them their own bedtimes to ensure they get what they need so that they wake up as near as possible to the ideal time.

She said: "We have four kids and let me tell you - our kids were waking up EARLY!

"I knew that I had to do something when our older kids were waking up at 5am and 5.30am in the morning.

"It was still dark outside, they were waking their siblings, and they were tired during the day."

This chart lets you work out when to put your child to bed

Becky’s charts tell her, for example, that her five-year-old needs to go to bed at 6:45pm to wake up at the targeted time.


"This idea is to naturally set our children’s internal clocks to a time that is more suiting to their schedule. It allows their bodies to sleep until it is time to wake up."

Controlling sleep patterns completely might be impossible but there are things that can help

To help other parents, Becky has drawn up a chart of how many hours of sleep children need at night depending on their age. In theory, all it takes is putting each child to bed at the appropriate time to ensure they all rise at the targeted hour.

She then goes further to advise that you get a digital clock so that they can see what the time is and to encourage them not to get our of bed until the number you are happy with, say 7am, appears on the clock.