SLEEPY TOWN So school has started and your Facebook feed is full of perfectly coiffed kids with cute signs looking excited to head to school.
For some kids, the shiny new gleam of a new school year wears of quickly, which means some parents immediately transition into a constant battle to get their night owls and heavy sleepers up for school.
Light flashings, noise strafings, cover removings and desperate bargainings are all well and good, but may only have limited or short-lived success. Plus nobody is happy at the end of any of the scenarios.
Enter the morning radio program called The Bert Show, a sleepy 10-year-old named Sophie and one fed-up mom looking for a unique solution.
Her mom has tried everything from rubbing her back and making sure the smell of warm cinnamon rolls wafts through the house to BLASTING her (mom's) music and throwing dog treats on the bed so the dogs wake her up, the video description reads.
The solution? A live jazz band called Blair Crimmins & The Hookers sneaks into sleeping Sohpies room and plays a jaunty, fusion ragtime number to blast Sophie out of bed. Its no surprise the stunt worked, but it is a surprise that there were no tears or shouts.
In fact, bleary-eyed Sophie barely seems fazed. Even when Bert explains to Sophie on the phone that if she doesnt get up for school, the band will come wake her up for the next five weeks, Sophie sassily replies, I need to buy myself some earplugs.
For some kids, the shiny new gleam of a new school year wears of quickly, which means some parents immediately transition into a constant battle to get their night owls and heavy sleepers up for school.
Light flashings, noise strafings, cover removings and desperate bargainings are all well and good, but may only have limited or short-lived success. Plus nobody is happy at the end of any of the scenarios.
Enter the morning radio program called The Bert Show, a sleepy 10-year-old named Sophie and one fed-up mom looking for a unique solution.
Her mom has tried everything from rubbing her back and making sure the smell of warm cinnamon rolls wafts through the house to BLASTING her (mom's) music and throwing dog treats on the bed so the dogs wake her up, the video description reads.
The solution? A live jazz band called Blair Crimmins & The Hookers sneaks into sleeping Sohpies room and plays a jaunty, fusion ragtime number to blast Sophie out of bed. Its no surprise the stunt worked, but it is a surprise that there were no tears or shouts.
In fact, bleary-eyed Sophie barely seems fazed. Even when Bert explains to Sophie on the phone that if she doesnt get up for school, the band will come wake her up for the next five weeks, Sophie sassily replies, I need to buy myself some earplugs.