Need for-sure alarm for sleeping son

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<p>My son has just started a job that requires him to get up at 5:00 in the morning. Getting him up personally is above and beyond the call of motherhood. The alarm clock next to the bed doesn’t work so tomorrow morning it will be on his dresser requiring him to get up to shut it off. He’s getting enough sleep. I can easily see him getting up, turning it off and going back to bed.</p>

<p>Any suggestions that really work?</p>

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<p>wow, that first link seems like the ultimate alarm. lamp hookup PLUS vibrating?</p>

<p>what more could you ask for? :]</p>

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<p>Let him be late one day, that will be a real wake up call</p>

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<p>Both my kids have trouble getting up. My daughter moved her alarm clock to the other side of the room. She gets up to turn it off and then crawls back into bed on school mornings. I always check on her about 10 minutes later to make sure she is moving. She knows I will check, so she has no pressing need to get up. On the mornings she showers she manages to get up as she knows she needs to be up otherwise her hair wouldn’t look good :-0</p>

<p>College will be a new adventure for her and I suspect she might be late for a class or two until she figures it all out.</p>

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<p>Second S has always been a deep sleeper. We wondered what would happen to him, too, as H had always woken him. Sent him to US to finish out HS. He lived with my sister who also does not get up in the morning. He had to learn. Had a few close calls, but actually was late only once I think.</p>

<p>Has started a new summer job this week. Spoke with him on Sunday. He bought a new alarm on Saturday, and was worried because he slept through it on Sunday. But he has 2 roommates, so hopefully somebody is an early riser.</p>

<p>He gets it from me. My H turns on the lights and brings me coffee. :slight_smile: Works most days. It’s the light that is key for me. Yesterday, at 5 a.m., with the light streaming in the windows, I was wide awake, remembering it was the longest day of the year. The best alarm for me, in the absence of sunlight, would be a light fixture on a timer.</p>

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<p>I bought a [Sonic</a> Boom Alarm](<a href=“http://www.hearmore.com/store/prodView.asp?idproduct=1408&idstore=1&idCategory=61]Sonic”>www.hearmore.com/store/prodView.asp?idproduct=1408&idstore=1&idCategory=61) for each of my kids (w/ lamp and bed vibrator hook-ups) and it appears to be pretty much foolproof… if you put it far enough away on the dresser that they can’t reach over and just turn it off.</p>

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<p>Holy crap… why spend 50 dollars on an alarm clock? Just wake up.</p>

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<p>Maybe some people cannot wake up. If someone didn’t wake me up, I’d sleep 12 hours everyday.</p>

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<p>Light might be one key. There are machines/alarms which gradually lighten the room.
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<p>You can find more by googling alarm clock light.</p>

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<p>bluealien: I’m not saying not to buy an alarm clock; I’m saying 50 dollars is too much for one. If one has the ability to wake up and hit the alarm clock–some degree of consiousness–he should be able to force himself awake.</p>

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<p>what I do is train my self to wake up. I did this when I was in middle school and only had a clock no alarm.
I simply banged my head on the pillow once for each hour I wanted to sleep.
Now I am not so dramatic- I just tell myself what time I want to get up. I still take my cellphone to bed with me though with the alarm set- just in case- .
If someone is having a great deal of trouble waking up in the morning, I would wonder if they are getting enough sleep
could they have sleep apnea and their oxygen level compromised?
I sleep a lot better on days I have had a good physical workout. If too much stuff is going on to allow me to relax and go to sleep well, I may take some valerian or melatonin or even just a cup of tea.</p>

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<p>Oopen the blinds, so the sun shines in, I have an alarm that gets louder and louder when you hit snooze, and sometimes a radio alarm works well</p>

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<p>And have a dog that NEEDS to wake everyone up when the alarms go off!!</p>

<p>Have a couple of alarms in different parts of the room. And when you go to bed, mom, move one (you know kind of hide it) so son has to find it!!! I did that with my Ds. It took them a minute to find it and by that time they were almost awake!!! It only took a few times of moving it for them to get into the rhythym.</p>

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<p>Yes, the dog is our built in alarm clock. Now that school is out she sleeps late-to 7:10! Every morning she is up no matter if we want up that early or not.</p>

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<p>Their biological sense of time is amazing. Our dog comes over and woofs me every day to let me know it’s time to pick up his boy at school.</p>

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<p>My S uses three alarms set to go off every five minutes. It’s worked so far for a 6 am bus.</p>

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<p>D’s key was two alarm clocks with timers. One next to the bed,one across the room (loud enough to hear by the bed).Set each one with 5 minute intervals, with the further one’s snooze alarm being last.Did the trick with D.</p>

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<p>A team at MIT has invented “Clocky,” an alarm clock on wheels.
From the website:
“When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will fall off of the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until he eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the over-sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. Because you employ multiple senses to find the clock, you are sure to awake before disabling the alarm. Small wheels enable Clocky to move and reposition himself, and an internal computer helps him find a new hiding spot every day.” - see <a href=“http://www.media.mit.edu/press/clocky/[/url]”>http://www.media.mit.edu/press/clocky/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Son did the two alarm method this morning and both were set in places that he had to get out of bed to reach them. I assume his body will re-set itself to this new wake up time. What’s going on is his friends are not going to work as early as him so what he’s tried so far is coming home and napping from 4 - 6 and then going out until 11:00. I would like him to have both enough sleep and a social life. </p>

<p>emeraldkity4 - Not everyone can train themselves to wake up without an alarm. If I’m at a hotel or at a place I’m unfamiliar with, I tend to sleep extra lightly and then wake up very early, worried that I’m not going to wake up on time. Knowing I have an alarm that works is what makes me sleep soundly.</p>

<p>I like the hiding method cgmom, it appeals to my sneaky side.</p>