To want to throw this thing out the window as far as I can humanly manage?

[Wibblytummy]

The groclock... Rah.

Since moving to a bed, DS has become a dawn riser. Wanting to be up and awake before 5am. So many people recommended the sleep training clocks to us, so we went out and got one. The week since the things arrival has been a nightmare. Each morning we're now faced with an instant tantrum "MAKE IT THE SUNNNNN", howling over the fact it's still blue and yelling at us to make it say 'wakey time'. Not only that, the ruddy thing only works by mains adaptor, which of course the toddlers figured out and keeps pulling the cord out the base, freezing the time display. Causing me at 4.45am to be fiddling with buttons to reset the times.

AIBU to want to lob this mechanical satan out of my DS's window so we at least return to a cheerful early rising toddler or do I blame sleep deprivation for being entirely unreasonable and persevere with the wretched thing, as no one seems to have anything but great things to say about it but me?!

Actually just put him back in the cot...

my sympathies lol we have one two. its lost the novelty but did work. how old is your ds?

I thought you were talking about a Furby.....it can't be a s bad as a Furby....

Cots a no go anymore, he can assault course it's sides and depart anyway..

He's 2.8yrs. The star on the clock has become his nemesis, to be screamed at with no mercy till the sun reappears.

I think this clock needs a new home.

YANBU. We had exactly this. Why the bloody hell it doesn't have batteries is beyond me. If it did I could have taped it to the curtain rail where they can't reach it and mess with it, instead of being assaulted with the bloody thing at 4am when he's pressed all the buttons and unplugged it.

Amazon has something similar that IS battery operated?
www.amazon.co.uk/Onaroo-Nightlight-Sleep-Trainer-Clock/dp/B002RNKOM2

That exact scene happened here this morning Slate. DH awoke to DS stood right next to his face, furiously pressing all the buttons and wailing 'Make it sunny. Make IT sunny. MAKE IT SUNNNNNY"

Ooh thank you JsOtherHalf, although after the above scene this morning and all the other highly dramatics starts to the day featuring this bloody clock, DH is "rueing the day he agreed to us purchasing such a ridiculous piece of equipment" and think he would blow a fuse if I got another variety.

Oh no....not enjoying this thread. DS1 is 2.9 and has just started climbing out of his cot and wandering in the night. We have bought a gro clock in readiness for the big bed (I also thought the mains plug was a bad idea). It's going to be awful isn't it?!

Throw the clock away.
Let him get up whatever time he wants and come in to you.
Pull him into your bed and have a snuggle each morning
If he does insist on getting up set him up with some toys in your bedroom and stay in bed til a reasonable hour yourself.

Just because he's up doesn't mean you have any obligation to get up at 5am.

Once they get used to coming in for a snuggle each morning you'll find you don't even notice him turning up in the bed each morning and he'll probably go back to sleep for a while cuddled up with you.

Oh SummerRain, we'd love it if he'd come in a snuggle. We've tried this so much before we purchased the wretched clock. That sadly does not agree with his plans. He lies still for about all of 2/3 minutes before the demands of milk and pleas to go downstairs start. We've got toys, books, you name it. Nothing entertains him when he knows the exciting world of downstairs lurks beyond the stair gate.

Stair gate over his room door so he can't get out. Set up gro clock where he can see it but can't reach through stair gate eg on landing outside bedroom door. Gradually knock back time of sunrise on the clock.

Would this work?

Send it to me please wibblytummy.
I LOVE the gro clock as it has works a treat with my 2 ds. We even take it on holiday.
My advice would be persevere as the rewards are so worth it if/when they get it. You do have to put in a bit if work first. Start early so if they get up at 5 now you can't set it got 7 and expect them to stay in bed. We had a 4am riser and we moved it 10 minutes forward every few days. Also never let them get up before the sun and if they do you must put them back.
Dd is not far off a bed now so I need to introduce one to her. What's the chances after me singing it's praises it all goes Pete tong with her?!

The trick is to never give in. After a few weeks he'll figure out that downstairs just isn't an option until later and will either snuggle up or amuse himself.

Dd was an early riser but I refused to get up with her until a reasonable time so she knew she had to wait.

There's nothing worse than being up at stupid o clock with a toddler imo.