Waking Too Early in the Morning Suppose your child falls asleep easily at 7:00 P.M. as desired but wakes every morning at 5:00, ready to start the day. His sleep phase runs from 7:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M., again indicating a ten-hour sleep requirement. It’s unfair and unrealistic to force him to stay in bed until 7:00 A.M. and hope he will go back to sleep. The problem is much like an early sleep phase, differing in that only one end of the sleep phase is earlier than desired, not both—since he usually falls asleep at a desirable hour—and the solution is the same: to eliminate the early waking,
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