Help! I need an 'alarm' clock for a 2yo to tell her when she can get up, but not necessarily wake her up........

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any ideas?
tia

can she recognise numbers? a friend of mine got a radio alarm clock with huge numbers and she told her dd she can get up only when the first number is a 7

seemed to work for her

ooh, you're a marvel, the bunny clock is just what I'm after, thanks

not sure re numbers yet, could have a go, it's a good way of teaching them.... thanks

when my dds were younger dh had a genius idea - he attached a night light to a timer (the kind you plug into the wall socket like the ones people use when the go on holiday to switch the lights off and on) and he set the light to switch on 5 mins after the dds were getting up

at this point they were waking 530 each day

he put it forward 5 mins each day til we reached 630am

it worked

they went from getting up at 530 to gettng up at 630

they would come through to our room "mummy mummy i can get up now the lights on"

we were going to aim for 7am but i didnt want to push it

Second littlelapin bunny clocks suggestion. Worked like a dream with dd's since they were nearly 2. You can get them from loads of places now and there's a pink and purple one too if she's a pink girl.

Try Great little trading company, Letterbox I think even Blooming Marvellous have started doing them.

When the alarm (doesn't have to actually sound, you contriol whether it does or not) goes off the bunny opens it's eyes and it's ears flick up.

Hi
Both our ds's have got simple digital clocks in their rooms - they know the first number has to be a 7 during the week. It has to be a 7 then a 2 at the weekend (and we sneakily put their clocks back by 20 minutes!!!). Works a treat...

We have plug-in nightlights on timer switches too. The nightlights are shaped like a bear (from ToysRUs) so the dcs know they can get up when the bear "wakes up".

And we used to put them forward by half an hour at the weekend, but sadly dd has learned to tell the time and rumbled us!

Another vote for the bunny clock! My DDs bunny also wakes up 30 mins later during the weekend

we have 2.99 tesco clock radio for dd and have the volume low enough it wouldnt wake her but if she is awake and hears it she knows she can get up or shout us without getting her head chewed off.

We have the kidsleep one (littlelapin's second link, from John Lewis) for our dd (2.3) and it has worked marvels with her sleeping - gone from waking at 5:30 to staying in bed til 7:30 and she always comes into our room shouting proudly 'I wake the rabbit'. She even reminds me to put it on at bedtime if I forget now.