I prefer to wake up early when it is still dark & quiet in my town. I go to bed by 10pm usually so I am up most afternoons by 6am. I used to do not like waking up early when I was a child & couldn’t imagine wanting to get out of bed without an alarm clock or the wet towel treatment my stepdad would do. If the two of us weren’t up when the two of us should have been he would get a towel & rinse it with cold water then pull back our blanket & throw it on our stomach. It woke us up! He could have just turned on the air conditioner & done it more gradually however this way worked much faster. Kids just need more sleep than adults & maybe he was just jealous that the two of us were able to sleep till noon if not awoken. We had a cool wood burning fireplace in that house & the two of us would help him cut the wood & carry it in, which for me was kind of a fun process & fantastic exercise. I wish I purchased that beach house when I had the chance in 1996 when my mom put it up for sale for $140K because this week it is worth 1.5 million dollars now. I can’t remember if the two of us had central heat & air in the place when the two of us had it built but I am sure that it is in there now. I can’t believe how much real estate has gone up over the past twenty several years or so. If I only knew then.