<p>S1, almost 16, has a hard time waking up in the morning, despite getting about 10 hours sleep each night. His alarm clock, which emits a loud, irritating beep, does not do the trick. I am wondering whether anyone knows of something that works, maybe a clock that emits some enjoyable sounds?</p>
<p>I’m giving my exH this for Christmas: [ThinkGeek</a> :: Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/)</p>
<p>Of course, I saw this product one day after he’d missed a meeting at a school we were looking at for S; pity I hadn’t seen it a few weeks earlier!!</p>
<p>When I had trouble waking up, a radio alarm clock–set to static, loud–was the best thing for me. If sound is just not doing it, there are also Shake-Awake alarm clocks that shake the whole bed (<a href=“http://www.shakeawake.com/[/url]”>http://www.shakeawake.com/</a>). </p>
<p>But if he’s really getting that much sleep and having trouble waking up, you should look into whether something might be really wrong, or if he just has a severe case of teenage boy. :)</p>
<p>I have a fancy alarm clock that turns up a light and a few minutes later starts playing a song of my choice. I usually wakes up by myself once there is light in the room (e.g. at sunrise if my shades are open) and being woken up by light is definitely more pleasant than by a beep.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I always set a second irritating-beep-alarm as well because if I am tired enough I will sleep right through the pleasant alarm.</p>
<p>Both my kids use their cell phones…I think they are used to responding to them instead of ignoring them like they might with an alarm clock.</p>
<p>Clocky! Bought when the kid was late for a midterm. It was designed by an MIT student, and you need to get out of bed and chase it down. You can get it at ThinkGeek - [ThinkGeek</a> :: Clocky Robotic Alarm](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/) - but you can comparison shop and maybe find it less expensively.</p>
<p>Cell phone it lights up, it vibrates, it plays a song. I use “wake me up before you go go”</p>
<p>If that dont work have S1 put the vibrating cell phone in his pj pockets. LOL</p>
<p>You know teenage boys that wear pj’s?</p>
<p>A cell phone on vibrate under the pillow works for some people I know.</p>
<p>I’ve been looking into the vibrating alarm clocks, but they all come with very loud alarms - so loud that I am afraid of hearing damage! I know that the sound can be turned off, but I’d rather not have it at all. I was not able to find one with vibration but no sound.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll have him try to cell phone - under his pillow - no PJs on any men over 14 in this house!</p>
<p>Sometimes a 0 on a test they slept through helps.</p>
<p>S2 tried everything, but the most successful has been Think Geek’s Sonic Bomb, mentioned above by Owlice. The vibration under his pillow is usually what gets him annoyed enough to wake up. This is a kid that slept through a 3 a.m. false alarm smoke detector going off which was tied electrically to four other alarms in our house (so five screaming at once) as well as the fire trucks at the edge of the driveway with sirens and lights AND three firemen treking up the stairs outside his room door to check on the alarms.</p>
<p>A friend of mine rigged his alarm clock (standard issue from Target or something) so that the speaker is next to his head, but the clock itself is across the room… seems like a good idea to me.</p>
<p>Your son has a ciracadian rhythm problem. Possible solutions: Change the activities at the school. Change the time of the activities or move the time on the clock so that your son thinks it is the proper time to awake. </p>
<p>Other possibilities include moving to a new time zone or changing kid. :)</p>