Help! Searching for Rabbit Clock

[GeorginaA]

ds (2) has started waking quite early (6ish) and because it's light then he's not going to bed again and we all end up tired and ratty! (He's also started waking in the night, but getting him to go back to sleep again while a bit of a battle is still doable - he's in a bed)

I was thinking about getting one of those rabbit clocks (the one where in daytime they open their eyes) and was wondering if people had any experience using them with a 2 year old - is he a bit young to get the concept?!

Also, where do you buy them?! Jojomamanbebe used to sell them, but I've just been to their site and their discontinued

Alternative advice also welcomed.

[codswallop]

press the button dowqn hard TO GET THE EYES TO SHUT (sorry caps - baby)

[Dixie]

HELP!!

I've just received my bunny alarm clock, ordered from www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk. DS1 is very excited about it & i think is going to do the trick...he already keeps telling me that 'when bunny asleep I stay asleep'& 'i only get up when bunny eyes open'. so it sound quite promising.

HOWEVER..i can't get the thing to work??? am i doing something terribly stupid or could it be faulty? those that have had these things is there something i'm doing silly? I can get the 'beep beep' to happen but not the actual bunny waking up part?

replies by 6pm tonight would be brilliant!

[RockingRosebud]

What about a lamp with a timer switch that stays on all night but goes off when he can get up?

We too had a bunny clock which broke.

[cairoqueen]

Don't buy the Bunny!! We had one for DS who was a horribly early riser, but 2 huge problems with it:

Firstly, if you put them to bed at say 7 and would like them to stay in bed until 7 or later the next morning, you can't set the alarm until after about 7.30 as it's an old fashioned clock face so no 24hr clock. DS used to love to put bunny to bed when he went to bed, so I would have to set the alarm time to 9 o'clock or similar in order for the flaming thing to work. I would then forget to go back in when he was asleep to reset it, it would go off at 9 pm and either wake him up or scare the cr*p out of me sitting downstairs.

Which leads me to my second point, that when Bunny does wake up, it is with a loud clunk, so if by some miracle DS was sleeping beyond 7 , bunny would wake him up when I could have had extra precious sleep.

All in all I cursed the day I bought it. Sadly it got lost in the move to Egypt......DS still yearns for it, I am a VBM.

A much better idea from my sister, once they can recognise numbers, get a digital clock and tell them they can come out when the numbers start with a 7. They don't need to be able to tell the time. Funnily enough, 7 was the first number both my nieces learnt!

[Finbar]

I have been to the site and the clock costs £15.00 plus p &p.

[Finbar]

easy, and everyone else - I have found a web site link to the clock we used.... it was also reviewed in the March edition of Prima Baby.

you need to go to www.locatorinternational.com and click on Wake Zone clock.
Good luck

[Sari]

We got a Winnie the Pooh one from Blooming Marvellous - I think - about a year ago and it has worked brilliantly. Maybe it's a bit stronger than the bunny one as it has survived being thrown around on a daily basis by a nine month old baby as well as being played with by a two year old. We still use it every day. Don't know if they still do them though.

[easy]

yes please finbar

[Finbar]

I have used a great clock that teaches children when to stay in bed / when they can play in their rooms /and when they can come out and disturb Mummy & Daddy!!!

If anyone's interested i can find out more about how to get hold of them (there an no bunny ears to break and you can personalise them a bit)

[GeorginaA]

Eeep that's bad Have ordered one from great little trading company (thanks justiner - they have new stock in at the end of the month apparently) and was hoping from the previous comments that they were just "don't let the kids touch" sort of fragile. We've got a reasonably high unit in his bedroom I could place it on where he could still see it.

If I do end up breaking it myself though I'll be more confident about sending it back thanks to all this info - thanks all.

Enid, that nightlight idea sounds good - I think if this clock does turn out to be a big disaster then I'll probably go for that approach.

[XAusted]

Got one from Blooming Marvellous. However, broke it myself! Tried to set alarm for 7 o'clock the following morning when it was only about 10 past 7 in the evening. When I made the bunny go to sleep, it kn**kered it. Silly me. Worked quite well till then. However, audible alarm still works so older child uses it. Very annoying tho as was expensive.

[lou33]

I tried to get one earlier this year and couldn't for love nor money. GLTC, Memorise This etc, all have stopped selling them.

[sprout]

What is it about mumsnet?? uncannily, there's always a thread answering my questions before I get round to asking them. I was just going to order one of these clocks for dd (3). Sorry to hear they're such bad quality, but thank you mumsnetters for saving me 20 quid or so.

[SueW]

Interested to here how easily they broke - ours broke almost immediately but I always thought it was something we'd done so never returned it! Wish I'd bothered to get my money back now.

[edgarcat]

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[Paula1]

Mine broke too, in less than a year, the clock hands fell off one by one!

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[Enid]

As a copywriter for all this kind of stuff I can tell you that they broke ALL the time and catalogues got so many returns that most have stopped doing them.

We put a nightlight on a timer switch - same concept, when light comes on you can get up, but easier to understand.

[justiner]

Bunny clock worked quite well for us once they got the hang of it - although sadly he's lost one of his ears - you need to put it in a place where they can't reach cos they quickly figure out how to wake him up and even change the time. We got ours from www.gltc.co.uk
Best of luck.