That took longer than it should've

My darling son is a big fat sleepy-head. And a night owl, to boot.

So, regardless of what time I insist he be in his jammies and in his room, he will frequently stay up till all hours of the night. I learned when he was about 2 that it's really hard to make someone sleep, at least without lots of tears and threats, so I figure there's not much to do other than insist on bedtime, even if he doesn't sleep, and insist on getting-up-time.

But it's a challenge.

He has an alarm clock, and it goes off every morning. On a buzzer, even.

He sleeps through it.

He slept through it for an hour one morning when I was feeling particularly passive aggressive!

He will wake up when I call him, but to be honest, he needs to learn to get himself up.

So, last night we tried something different. His clock actually has two alarm settings; he put one on for 6:00 (he also has his mother's tendency to like to get up gradually), and set it to 99.9 The Fan, the local all-sports, all-talk station. Then he set the other one to go off at 6:30, with a buzzer.

Worked a charm, as my English grand-boss would say! He was out of bed and in the shower at 6:33!

But you'd think that the sports angle would've ocurred to us before now!