Suggestions for waking a teenager up in the morning.

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Has 2 alarms. Sleeps through both.
Just doesn’t hear them at all.
Changed the alarm, high volume but still does not hear it or wake up.

Any suggestions welcomed.
thanks

Can you phone him repeatedly until he gets out of bed?

Get a cat, they are pretty adept at waking people up at 5am

Doesnt help with the immediate problem, but maybe float him past a doctor for a sleep assessment, he might have sleep apnea

I would put a old fashioned alarm clock…a really really loud one on the other side of the bedroom, and test run it before you go

Tell him to go to bed earlier.

If you all have to go away, why not ring him on the house phone and the mobile at the same time until he answers one of them?

I’m like this !!
sleep through anything !!
I use - sleeping with curtains open
lumie light in winter
alexa set to blast out music
phone alarm - 3 alarms set
going to bed early enough

Second the doctor suggestion. I had this problem and it turned out to be caused by a medical condition.

Ditto to the noisy, old fashioned mechanical alarm clock on the other side of the room. Modern alarms just aren’t loud enough. Plus probably earlier bed, with screens left downstairs, away from temptation.
If those don’t work, a good old fashioned cold wet sponge for a few mornings in a row might do it. 😈

Put on light, open curtains and window, remove duvet, shake teen awake.

Tell him that if he can't wake up it means his body needs more sleep; which means he has to go to bed earlier every night (lights and devices off.).

There’s an app for your phone where you take a photo of something random, eg the kettle, then when you’re alarm goes off you have to take a photo of the kettle to stop it. Quite loud apparently and will just go on and on until the photo.

If he is that worried about not waking up, what HE is doing to find a solution?

Fwiw if you do a quick search you have many many types of alarms, incl some to put under the bed sheets that vibrate (the watch vibrating wouldn’t wake my dcs up and they dint have an issue hearing the alarm) etc….

The first thing for him to finally ‘hear the alarm’ is for him to take responsibility about his waking up in time.
Another could be him going to be earlier too….

Alarm clock that's used for the hearing impaired? They sell them on Amazon. Also tell him to go to bed earlier. It's the only way. I can sleep for 10-12 hours if I don't have something to wake me up.

I chase my 14yo off to bed at 9.30pm. I wake him up at 6.45 on school days, giving him 9ish hours sleep.

I wake him by shaking, make sure he speaks to me, then go and put his toast on, then go back and insist he gets out of bed and comes and eats. If he refuses I tickle his feet or, in extremis, dribble cold water on him. 😊

He doesn't hear alarms either, even the smoke alarm.

The OP is going on holiday so won't be there to do any of this.

I'm pretty sure my being like this and going back to sleep really easily in the morning was a medical thing, possibly anaemia.

Sunrise light with an alarms helped a lot, I use smart bulbs in our bedrooms now.

There's apps that work by having your phone in bed and then they work out the light patch of sleep near your desired wake time and go off then. Worked pretty well for me