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Do alarms wake your teenager up?

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Tickineck · 16/12/2024 07:06

DS’s alarm was going off for 15 minutes yesterday, it was going off as I got in shower and was still going off when I left the bathroom.
The alarm is right next to his head so not on the other side of the room and it’s a Lumie so it’s lit up before the beeping starts.
it’s happened again today (although this time I have gone and woke him up)

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Vettrianofan · 16/12/2024 07:06

No. We need to go in and wake him.

Hermanfromguesswho · 16/12/2024 07:10

No. I bought him an alarm clock for heavy sleepers off Amazon. It has 2 parts: a loud alarm and a thin plate that goes under the pillow and vibrates. Works brilliantly as I am often already out to work when he needs to wake up so I can’t wake him

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Tickineck · 16/12/2024 07:12

Will look into that Amazon alarm, thank you!

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thesunisastar · 16/12/2024 07:15

Hermanfromguesswho · 16/12/2024 07:10

No. I bought him an alarm clock for heavy sleepers off Amazon. It has 2 parts: a loud alarm and a thin plate that goes under the pillow and vibrates. Works brilliantly as I am often already out to work when he needs to wake up so I can’t wake him

We also bought one of these for teen DS. It's the only alarm that will consistently wake him up.

TheSilkWorm · 16/12/2024 07:28

No. I wouldn't leave the alarm going off for 15 minutes without waking him, why would you do that? It's not their fault if they sleep through.

SuePreemly · 16/12/2024 07:29

My ND younger preteen has a Lumi as a 6:30am start is hard work. The lumi has really helped get the old body clock started.

The 15yo needs an alarm and a parental shove 10 minutes later or he would just sleep all morning

Sunshineandrainbow · 16/12/2024 07:31

I remember listening to something that says alarms don't wake a teenage brain!

FestiveTinsel · 16/12/2024 07:33

One of our kids has just hit 14. He was the one I never had to worry about. He would get himself up and all jobs down m, have time to go on his iPad and then come in and say goodbye and be out waiting for the bus 10 mins before he needed to. But this last month he’s overslept more days that he hasn’t! Definitely some teenage hormones kicking in. He’s never grumpy but the old eye roll has appeared!

Sparxdislike · 16/12/2024 07:33

We use Alexa and that works. Sometimes has to be snoozed a couple of times 😅

WhatHaveIFound · 16/12/2024 07:34

When he was at school I used to have to wake my DS, now he's working he's capable of waking up with an alarm. Even when he has an early (6am) start.

Sinkintotheswamp · 16/12/2024 07:36

Not really. He has a lumie and google home.
It's got worse since google changed their app settings so he can't be woken up to radio 1 anymore, we've tried and failed to set it as a routine. The silly plinky plonk google default wake up sound doesn't wake him. I've been meaning to get him a basic alexa.

DrCoconut · 16/12/2024 07:37

All 3 of mine would sleep through the horsemen of the apocalypse riding through the room. One famously (in our circle at least) slept through a performance by the Drambuie pipe band in a pub. I envy them as I'm awake if a fly lands on the shutters of the corner shop!

BourbonsAreOverated · 16/12/2024 07:39

mine get worked with their preferred radio station, that seems to help over an alarm.
took me ages to find one that did that though

LisaJohnsonsFacebookMole · 16/12/2024 08:00

No, not at all!

thewalrus · 16/12/2024 10:04

DD has a Lumie and the under pillow amazon one and another one at the other side of the room. I still have to wake her some days. Reassure to read that she's not the only one!

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Tickineck · 16/12/2024 13:10

TheSilkWorm · 16/12/2024 07:28

No. I wouldn't leave the alarm going off for 15 minutes without waking him, why would you do that? It's not their fault if they sleep through.

Well I didn’t know it was still going off until I came out of the bathroom and heard it still going, I wouldn’t leave it for 15 mins if I could hear it, that would drive me insane!

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Tickineck · 16/12/2024 13:12

SuePreemly · 16/12/2024 07:29

My ND younger preteen has a Lumi as a 6:30am start is hard work. The lumi has really helped get the old body clock started.

The 15yo needs an alarm and a parental shove 10 minutes later or he would just sleep all morning

DS is 15 also so wonder if it’s that age in particular, he doesn’t stay up mega late, is always asleep before 11 and most nights by 10-10.30, doesn’t have phone in room of anything to distract

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Fizbosshoes · 16/12/2024 13:35

My teen DS sleeps really deeply, and has done since he was a baby. He's sleeps through fireworks, wind, rain , thunderstorms, teen DDs party which was directly under his room (neighbours several doors away heard it ) When he was younger I have even hoovered his room with the light on,after he'd gone to bed. He wasn't dry at night until he was 6 or 7 and the bed wetting alarm didn't wake him. (But woke everyone else in the house!)

however he has an alarm on his watch that wakes him every morning and he's up before everyone else in the house, on school days. I can count on one hand the times I've had to wake him.

daffodilandtulip · 16/12/2024 13:41

My DD teen slept through three fire engines blaring outside her room. In a separate incident, she slept through a car on fire/exploding. I also regularly set the fire alarms off accidentally in the loft room when I use my hairdryer. Absolutely nothing.

DS uses an iPhone and is out of bed on the first ding.

Octavia64 · 16/12/2024 13:44

No.

But nothing woke me up as a teen either.

My parents bought me a really really loud and annoying alarm clock.

oviraptor21 · 16/12/2024 13:48

No.
One of them bought a vibrating thing for under the pillow and that worked.
The other we woke up. Oddly, since they went to uni the alarm seems to work 🤔 🙄

Ellerby83 · 16/12/2024 13:48

My teens for wake up at their alarms but I read somewhere that kids do often sleep through alarms/smoke alarms. I think there was research done after the sad case when the parents set their house on fire thinking the kids would hear the alarms but they slept through them and all died.

Christmasishere9 · 16/12/2024 14:39

2 teen girls; we don’t wake any of them up; DD1 roll out of bed with the bare minimum time to get ready; DD2 goes to be earlier and wake up with her alarm at 6:30am to allow 50min to get ready and have breakfast

OhBling · 16/12/2024 14:53

1 teenagers could easily sleep 14 hours a day! Grin

2 I believe that waking up to an alarm is a skill that has to be learnt. DH had a job for years that did not involve waking up at a set time and it definitely took a while for him to actually wake up to an alarm regularly when his life changed.

Stephanator · 16/12/2024 21:05

Mine has an app alarm called Alarmy