OK to Wake!

We have a new “toy” in our house. Sevea got her first “alarm” clock. She’s been sleeping downstairs for quite a while now (however it is not her bedroom and she does not want it to be her bedroom…she will sleep with Brynna again later she says.) With the new sleeping arrangement we dealt with her getting up earlier and earlier. She’d come upstairs and feel bad that she wasn’t still sleeping even though we were. She felt like she was doing something wrong. So we finally pulled the trigger on getting her an “alarm” clock. We’d known about these clocks for quite some time but just never felt like we needed it. Could have used it, yes but didn’t need it.

The clock acts like a normal alarm clock that you can set to alert you when to wake up. But the thing we use it for is to tell Sevea when it is “OK to Wake!” You can set a certain time that the clock will glow yellow letting the child know that they can now wake up (or get out of bed essentially). We set the “alarm” for 6:35am and when that time comes the clock glows yellow, if Sevea is awake she gets out of bed and comes upstairs. If she is asleep, she just keeps sleeping because it doesn’t make any sound or alert her in anyway other than if she were looking for it to change color. It has been great. She doesn’t feel bad for getting up too early. She gets more sleep because she doesn’t feel like she’s been forgotten downstairs. And the best part, Troy and I get more sleep. Everyone is happy!