Hello
I have been using a gro clock for my early rising 2.5yo DS for the past 6 months with zero success.
He is in a bed and at first he would fiddle with the gro clock buttons when he woke up. We had no where high up to put it in his room so resorted to putting it on the landing so he could see it when he opened his door (which is the first thing he does when he jumps out of bed at 5:30am)
At the moment the clock is set for 6:15am mainly because he went through a phase of waking around this time but wake ups have reverted back to 5:30am. We haven’t changed the gro clock time and the sun comes up at 6:15.
When he wakes up at 5:30 he yells for mummy and daddy to wake up. He has a gate so I tell him to go back to bed and I go in with him. Usually, I lie in the bed or on the floor and he runs round his room opening the blinds, getting books out etc.
Is there anything I can do to make the gro clock more effective? Should it be in his room rather than on the landing? I have no where to put it as he has a IKEA wardrobe and toy box so no high up bedside table or chest of drawers and I worry putting it on the wardrobe will just make him yank the clock down by its cord.
Bed time routine starts at 6:30ish with the aim of getting him to bed at 7:30ish but he doesn’t fall asleep until 8/8:30. He naps for about 1hr during the day. He runs around a lot! He has a blackout blind. He gets irritated by white noise so we don’t use this.