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(More customer reviews)I wanted to write a review for people like me. I am a good parent, but we operate a little more by the moment in hour house so sometimes very regimented toys and activities just don't work for our family because our existence is so hectic that we just don't have time to be consistent. So, I bought this clock with 3 things in mind. First, my 4-year old son REALLY wanted a clock. He had just recently become enamored with clocks in general. Second, we were having a getting out of bed multiple times, and ending up in bed with me issue, mostly with my 2 year-old son. Thirdly, the 2-year old was starting to act as though he might have an issue with the dark and leaving their dimmable light on low was the only way to begin to get him in the mood to negotiate bed time (and you know you have trouble when you are bargaining at bed time with your 2 year-old.) What I was concerned about was that we would get this, not be able to use it easily and therefore not consistently and it would be another really good idea that just did not work for us.
Now, we have had our clock for less than a week and it has already transformed bed time and sleeping habits in our house. The only major committment I had to make was to insist that the boys (mostly the little guy) get back in bed when they woke up at night, and not take the easy way out and allow them to get in bed with me. I never had to bother with my 4 year-old. He was so excited about his clock and caught on to all the meanings of the colors right away, so he understood and abided by the new rules of his own accord. Night one, my little guy got out of bed 8 times between going to bed and getting up in the morning. I quicly and calmly took him back to his bed and said "the clock is still blue, it's still bedtime, you can get up in the morning when the clock is yellow." He would fuss, and we would do it again a few minutes later. Night two he got up 3 times. Night three and four he got up 2 times and yesterday he got up only one time, 10 minutes before the clock would have turned yellow for wake up time anyway. He is a very stubborn little boy, so the fact that this worked with him is amazing!
It's easy to set up your bed time and wake up time which work automatically going forward. You simply press the light blue naptime button, red discipline button, and green positive activity button to start those activities, whose duration you also pre-set. There are story-time, music and white noise options for bed and/or wake time. The clock comes with one faceplate and one cartridge (music and story.) It will also work on battery and comes with an AC adapter. I LOVE that it is an analog clock, though all the functions are set using the digital clock on the back. The Children's Dreamland story cartridge that comes with this is kind of a hypnotic, and although I think the voice is kinds of nasal and weird, it seems to relax the kids.
I do not know if the success of this product is due to the product itself or because parents are so desparate for this product to work that they committ to the behaviors that would have solved the sleeping problems in the first place, but either way IT DOES WORK. So, some of you other parents out there like me, for whom some of the more hyped trends in child rearing are more trouble than what they accomplish, please do not pass this up, it will work, with minimal effort and great results!
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