Bunny Clock, Special Light?

[NotQuiteCockney]

We are having morning problems. Is the standard bunny clock from whichever catalog the right solution?

We also need some sort of gentle light that turns itself off after five minutes or so (to let him check the bunny clock, among other things). I'd rather it was a torch or equivalent, so he could keep it in his bed.

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I think you can get both at www.gltc.co.uk or try www.urchin.co.uk

IME the bunny clock is quite sensitive to being 'inspected' and tends to pop up if the clock is lifted up to check, even long before the appointed hour. If your DS's bedroom arrangement means that the clock would be in reach, you might prefer to have a simple plug-in timer with a lamp (using a low wattage bulb, say 10 or 25w), so that he has to stay in bed until the light comes on but isn't disturbed by it on the odd occasion that he sleeps in. That's what we are about to try with DD, after a succession of 5.30am starts when DD says indignantly that her bunny clock has popped up, look mummy, I just touched it to see it.

hovely, that's very worth knowing! It's a bit irksome that the bunny clock appears to be it for that market, I've not found anything else similar.

I couldn't find any lights that turned themselves off, the closest I could find was a Piglet torch on ebay, which I've now bought.

Maybe we will go with the soft light that turns itself on. He already has quite a soft red Ikea light, but maybe we'll go for a night light, or something like that.

He can use the torch for orienting himself, and trips to the potty.

His room really is pitch black, and he can't open the hatch on his own, to come downstairs.

Could you not put the bunny clock on a shelf out of reach?

Not us, no. It's a loft room. And the bunny thing looks pretty subtle, at least in the catalogs - looks like you'd want to see it up close, particularly if you didn't have a bright light on.

Hmmm, the classic white domey-type lamp that fades and goes off after 15 mins seems to have disappeared!

I've actually been looking for something of this sort (the light that switches off) for ages and ages, and had no luck at all. DH is sure you can buy switches for regular lights, like for halls, that do this. But nobody seems to make little lights that do this.

The 15-second torch should do us just fine, anyway.

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Ok, two folks have had a bad experience with them, I'm leaving them be.

I think the timer and nightlight solution will work great for us. DS1's room is incredibly dark, dormer windows with fitted blackout blinds. So a nightlight will give plenty of light, to let him know it's wakeup time, without actually waking him.