Since when is going to school optional?

Trying to get Josh out of bed for school has been a different challange everyday. From hiding in his closet, to getting dressed in his uniform only to change into play clothes 3 minutes later, to just flat out refusing to get out of bed. What interesting mornings I have. *Sigh*

Chocolate donuts sprung him out of bed one morning. And today it was the "race" to see if he could get dressed faster than the baby. LOL! I'm not sure I can keep coming up with tricks to get this child out of bed.

Learning from the past, as soon as he's dressed, fed, and has brushed his teeth we are out the door. I'm not giving him a chance to change his clothes again. LOL! I'm also not giving him a chance to think up another delay tactic!!

You know what though? Josh LOVES school. I would say that mornings must be his enemy, but I know that's not true either. He rises just fine and enjoys his mornings. On my day off I'd really like for him to sleep in but that doesn't happen! I guess the really "enemy" is that Josh HAS TO do something. He doesn't have a say in it. I think that's the problem.

So ... give him choices you say, right? Well, here's the tricky part. Josh canNOT handle choices too well. Especially ones that come with time constraints. For obvious reasons any type of choice I'd give him in the morning is probably a bad idea. I can't even get him to decide what he wants to eat, let alone ask him to make choices so he'll feel like he's in control of the situation! KWIM?

Maybe I should just invest in a lot of donuts ........