Gro-clocks are shit

[Alpineal87]

My 3 year old can’t give two shits whether sleepy cat is still asleep or not. Introducing this piece of crap to our mornings hasn’t given us any extra sleep past our usual 5am wake up call, it’s just given us the painful endurance test of keeping my youngest in his bedroom for an extra 60 minutes using various pointless distraction methods which descends into threats and bribery.
Absolute fucking waste of time and I’m dealing with it well.

Ahh I can see this thread has a lesser spotted billy bullshitter in the wild 🤔🤣
mercifully I have no idea whether mine are early risers or not these days because they no longer live in my house
DH and I on the other hand rarely sleep past seven these days after years of the buggers waking up before daybreak 🤯😢🤣

It worked for mine but he was an unusually compliant toddler. He knew that it was morning when the the sun woke up. We had it years actually until it was suddenly a bit silly and just got him a digital clock when he was about 7 or so.

I had to put it up high so he couldn't just turn it to day himself though! It used to live on top of his shelves.

No talking, no eye contact, he gets nothing from you if he leaves his room before the clock tells him he can. What you have taught him is all this interaction between you can happen whilst the clock says sleep

That’s horrible [shocked]

I had to remove it for my lark of a DD1 - it made her sleep worse as she would just stare at it, making everything else worse.

There were many bleary eyed morning, we eventually set things up so she could play quietly in the morning.

Even now, as an adult, she has an alarm clock that only has the numbers visible with noise as she wants to stare at it otherwise, she likes her room completely dark with white noise.

It took DS (aged two and a half at the time) about three days to work out that if he switched the plug socket off at the wall and switched it back on again the bloody thing automatically reset to daytime.

It wasn’t until he was four that we were able to teach him what 6.30 looked like on a proper clock and persuade him to play with Lego in in his room until then.

He is now a teenager so we sometimes don’t see him until midday!