Gro Clock - How long to understand?

[gigi556]

DS is 22 months. We finally introduced a Gro clock about a week ago. Bedtime is 8pm. Clock is set for 6am. He wakes everyday at about 5-5:30. I go in and tell him it's not time to get up and we have to wait for the sun to come up on his clock. I explain it's still blue. We must wait for it to turn yellow. He goes back to sleep and then wakes up again about 30 minutes later. After the sun comes up he can come to bed with us. He usually cuddles in with DP for 10-30 minutes.

I guess I'm wondering how long other peoples kids took to understand the concept of this clock? I'm actually a morning person and go to bed reasonably early, but half waking up in the morning and dozing for an or so is driving me nuts.

Note: I appreciate my problem is not really that bad as we had a really bad sleeper on our hands during the first year or so and have never seem to have cracked the early rising.

Bumping!

Watching with interest although I’ll probably work in getting my 18m to sleep through first!

It worked from the start with my daughter but I don't think we introduced it will she was 3. I can't imagine her understanding it at 22 months.

Mine was only a few days but he was almost 3. He's got fantastic understanding but I still think he might have struggled for a bit at 22 months, like a PP said.

We introduced at about the same age as you, a month or two ago and DS is now almost two. It seems to help- he likes "setting the clock" at bedtime and he understands he can only get up when the sun comes up but he doesn't just go quietly back to sleep like your DS. You're really lucky there! If he wakes at 5 or so he never goes back to sleep. However he's been a bit quieter when he does wake early since the clock so I think it helps. Tbh what's helped the most is the clocks going forward, he's now sleeping later! (But we have other sleep problems that have recently appeared)

My DD understood it verbally at 2 but basically ignored it. It started working for us at 2.5. It works brilliantly now although am unsure what the summer will bring!

Repetition, repetition, repetition! It took a fair few weeks of telling DS1 to 'wait for Mr Sun to come up' before he got it - that was when he was about 2 IIRC. We also used the little book that comes with the clock as a bedtime story. We still use the clock now at 5 yes old and occasionally have to remind him to stay in his room until Mr Sun, but have managed over the years to push his wake up time from 5am to 7am, much better!

We’re going to be trying to introduce this with my DD (21 months) in the next couple of weeks... I really am hoping she isn’t too young!

@kiwiblue well last night he didn't actually go back to sleep straight away. I was in and out of his room every 5-10 minutes for an hour!

One week in and I don't think he's getting it at all!😭

Back in December/January he was waking up at 4:30 very tired but not always able to fall back to sleep. We moved bedtime from 7 to 8 and saw some improvement but not we are back to 5:30am (which is technically the same as 4:30 with the .7pm bedtime!!!)

Gigi - it's so difficult! We've gone through stages of DS waking at 5. At the moment he's waking later as he started going to bed later after the clocks changed but we have bedtime battles that we've never had before. I now stay with him while he falls asleep but I'm wondering if that will prove to be a mistake.

Well I guess we've been doing this Gro clock for a couple weeks and he either does not get it at all or just doesn't give a hoot!

DD is 7 soon & we're still waiting for her to adhere to the sun being up until she gets up

My twins are the same age and one loves the clock! She understands she can’t get up until the sun comes up as she calls out for us then (mummy, tuddle!!) but she does also still wake up and want us to go in in the night but is happy to
Lie back down. The other twin likes to
Play with the clock but doesn’t really get it yet... however he sleeps so that’s fine!