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<p>My son would sleep through the entire thing. He even sleeps through his alarm clock that sounds like a siren and makes his bed vibrate. My mom used to throw a wet wash cloth on my dad’s face to get him up in the morning, which sounds like a fun sport to me, but I try not to be involved in him getting up or not! Which means the siren from his alarm clock goes off for 10-15 minutes in the morning. Ugh.</p>
<p>I like this and may have to purchase it next Spring. I’ve told my daughter I will continue to wake her up until January at which point she needs to use an alarm clock to show me she’s ready for college. I wake her 3-4 times before she finally gets up and if it’s a really bad morning I play my keyboard in my room which starts her screaming at me to stop!</p>
<p>I like it. It’s an improvement on the old trick of putting the alarm clock across the room.</p>
<p>My S could also sleep through anything. One morning, after several futile attempts to get him up, I dumped a large tumbler of ice cubes on him under his nice snuggly covers. That did the trick…</p>
<p>Now he’s a college freshman with two 8 AM classes. He seems to be getting to them okay (but who really knows for sure?). I think once they get out on their own, they are forced to get up for class on time. After all, they don’t have us to bail them out!</p>
<p>Bought it, and he still slept through it. He left it behind when he left for college and I use it as a spare alarm clock without the traveling. Cool item, in any case.</p>
<p>The best alarm clock for my S was one he decided upon himself. He bought a Roomba & set it to run every morning at the same time. It makes some noise and will bump into furniture, including his bed. To our knowledge, he has not had problems waking & attending classes, tho he set his schedule to begin as late as possible (often having his 1st class at or after noon). The side benefit was that his room/apartment was very clean & it helped keep his allergies under good control.</p>
<p>My d has a yellow one! She had been given a truly annoying helicopter clock – when it went off, a helicopter went flying, and you had to get up, find the thing (for her, add in “find your glasses”), and put it back in a tiny hole to stop the tinny, annoying “song”. She learned how to smack it to stop the sound, and the little helicopter got stuck in the torchiere shade once, and we didn’t find it until the lamp was dusted…which was not (ahem) for a few days. The little bouncing clock is cute – it giggles and such, and she can find it without the glasses.</p>
<p>However, she’s in a loft bed at school, and has 4 days of 8 am classes and a roommate who does NOT need to get up that early. She sets her ihome and has learned to quickly alert to it and turn it off AND STAY AWAKE without annoying the roommate. Who knew – the kid that slept through many momma summonses could get herself up for class!! (Although those first two weeks, I must admit I sent her a friendly “good morning” text and didn’t really trust she was up unless she replied!)</p>
<p>Most teens are hardwired for late morning alertness (at the earliest). We attempt to educate them hours earlier than they are truly awake. It is a much less effective approach than meeting them where they actually are. On top of this, some people are truly hardwired to be sleepy in the morning, and very energetic at night (and it isn’t a matter of youth). If we can find alternatives to early classes, it can be a life changing thing for some kids.</p>