A Gro clock but not a Gro clock

[MaggieFS]

We have to do something about 4yo DS waking up at 5am and getting up or calling out.

I've read that the night light on Gro clocks is quite bright so I'm not sure about it... any suggestions for anything similar?

We had a post it note stuck over the minutes on a digital clock, so only the hour could be seen. They could only get up when the hour matched the number written on the post it note.

You can turn the brightness on the gro clock right down. It doesn’t disturb our dc

I turn it away from DC but they can lean round to check it.

It isn't bright

We have a yoto and the display on that changes from a moon to a sun when they’re allowed to get up

Yeah you can turn the light off so it isn't on at all at night (the blue light) - when the owl 'wakes up' it turns on and is orange

You can get an app, but that means leaving temptation in the room. The gro clock is adjustable brightness

Yes you can turn the light off completely on our gro clock. No light at all until the sun comes up.

We use a Yoto which has transformed bedtime and waking up for us. DS happily goes to bed now and listens to an audio book for a while, then he drifts off to sleep while listening to the sleep radio. In the morning he waits until it turns sunny before disturbing us. If we want to sleep longer we tell him to put an audio book on until we get up. The night light on the yoto is very subtle.

We had the kid sleep 'clock'.
It doesn't have a clock as such, just two pictures. One of a bunny (or sheep in the travel version) asleep in bed and one with a bunny (or sheep!) awake. You set the times that you want the light behind the pictures to change from one to the other.
Worked brilliantly for our two. They could easily understand that if the animal was in bed, they had to be too, but once the animal was awake, then they could get up.

We used a lamp on a timer (Frozen one that she liked). We had it on a wifi plug we could control from our phone as well. We made a big deal when it came on - woohoo, it’s morning time to get up! But if it was before 6am we whispered and said wait for Elsa to wake up. Took a week or so but it worked!
we also have a yoto and the light on that is really unobtrusive, not sure how they do it!

Thanks all. I've separately been wondering about a Yoto, so perhaps now's the time. Not sure though, good to know the light can be dimmed on the Gro.

Beware- the gro clock is easy to re-program. We used to hear our 3yo early riser DD muttering to the owl to just wake up already. Then she taught herself to reprogram it so there would be a minute or two of muttering and then "oh good! Morning time!".
She's 5 now and still an early riser that won't stay bed for clocks, stickers or any type of reward 😏

We have both a gro clock and a yoto 🙈 had the groclock first, then got the yoto. I think eventually we will phase out the groclock and just use the yoto. I highly recommend the yoto for its other uses - audio books, music, phonics games etc.

agree groclock can also be reprogrammed too easily, even with the child lock on. My daughter figured it out 2 days after I moved her in to a bed from a cot 🙄 though she has stopped since I told her the groclock would go in the bin if she messed with it again!

we have a Yoto and honestly the best childrens purchase we have made.
It is listened to constantly by our 3.5 year old. The meditation cards changed is awful going to be routine (of getting out literally 100+times) and staying in bed until the sun is currently working. He is awake in there and comes in the second it ticks over, occasionally he goes back to sleep while he is waiting and I’m hoping that might become more frequent.

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As PP said. We just used a normal digital alarm clock and covered the minutes with tape. Worked a treat and didn’t cost anything.