OK to Wake! Alarm Clock & Night-Light - Changeable Faceplates and Easy-to-Use Buttons - For Infants and Toddlers

Wow... this thing is MAGIC!!!!! We are not new to sleep training methods... my kiddos have been great sleepers, always go to bed without a fight, and usually sleep through the night. However, my 2 year old (26 months) started having bad dreams and waking often, and it was getting exhausting. He is great at going to sleep on his own, so all we would need to do was go in, pick him up and rock him in the chair for about 2 minutes, then put him back down and he would go back to sleep on his own. We tried not picking him up, but he would NOT have that. Honestly, it wasn't really too big of a problem for awhile, since it only took about 5 minutes for everyone to be back to sleep, and it only happened a few times a week. Well before I knew it, the kid was waking and needing a snuggle over 3 times a night. With another baby in the house, the sleep deprivation started really getting to me. I was about to break down and start re-training him, and someone recommended this light. Honestly, I wasn't sure if it was going to work because he wasn't really getting up EARLY, just getting up in general, but I thought I'd give it a shot. The kid is obsessed with anything "special," so we call this his "special light" and he is in LOVE with it! We watched youtube videos on the light before it arrived, so he was SUPER excited to get it even before it came. I even let him meet the mailman to receive his "special light" and open the box himself. I taught him that off means "no crying" and green means "time to wake up!" and he is IN LOVE! We talked about how when the light is off, you don't need mama to come in, just know you can go back to sleep and when it turns green mama will come back! You guys, I am NOT kidding when I say he didn't wake up at ALL for the first 4 nights with this light. It had been a solid month before he had slept through the night before, and then all of the sudden he's making it ALL NIGHT!!!! On night 5 he woke up once crying... I was able to go in, give him a pat, tell him his light wasn't on, wait for it to come on, and he went right back to sleep without me having to pick him up!!! I seriously didn't think that not picking him up was possible without a fight from him!!! It was like MAGIC! He's always been a pretty good napper, but I work from home and can always use a bit of extra time to work during naptime. He usually naps about 1.5 hours... I started using the nap mode and can set it for 2 hours and I'm telling you... he just sits in his crib and reads his book quietly after he wakes up until the light turns green.... it is incredible! Do yourself a favor and buy this light... NOW!! CONS: - honestly, this light is somewhat poorly made.... he dropped it on day 3 from a chair to a carpeted floor and neither of the feet buttons would work... I had to take the batteries out and reset it and thankfully it worked. A few days later it completely froze after dropping it from a short distance onto carpet. The first time we had to take it with us for an overnight trip, it was packed into the top of an open tote bag (not overstuffed) and the little ears of the faceplate turned white from bending damage (like they might break off!). TBH, I could care less... take all my money bc this thing is giving me SO much good sleep for the whole family! Need to go ahead and order a backup bc if it completely breaks I can guarantee we will have a night full of tears and no sleep.

I really really want to give this 5 stars because we think this is amazing!! However, the one thing that keeps me from giving it that one more star is the fact that ours has a glitch of some sort. If it's moved or touched in some way it turns off or resets itself. There's something wrong with the battery connection or something. It's super annoying to have to reset the clock, ok to wake time, and nap settings whenever this happens. That being said, if it's not picked up (it doesn't need to be after-all) it is just fine. When I first looked at this I thought $30 was pricey. Maybe I'd do $15... but there is nothing else out there like this so I decided to fork the money over. We got this for our 2 yr-old son who is still in a crib. We were expecting it to take a little while for him to get used to it and it's concept and we wanted it for when his little sister arrives to hopefully solidify his nap and wake times and for when he transitions to a bed. He was interested in it the moment we pulled it out of the package because it was something new. That night, when we were putting him to bed we told him what it does and showed him how it turns green and how that means it's okay to wake up. We then told him that if it's not green he can lay back down and go back to sleep or sit quietly in his crib. We then had him practice a couple times by toggling the green light on and off. He seemed to get it. The next morning we were amazed that he actually stayed quiet until it turned green, at which he promptly shouted to us, "Mom, dad, it turned green!" He was so excited and proud of himself. We've owned this for a week or two now and it still amazes us at how well it works for him waking up in the morning and that he is for sure having 2 hours of nap/quiet time each day. Like I said, he gets up excited now and is more well rested and happy since it keeps him in there for the certain length of time we've set. It's helped lengthen his nap from 1 hour to 2 hours like it should be because he'll go back to sleep since it's not green rather than sit and cry all sleep deprived. Not only is it good for him though, it's great for us to know that we have at least 2 hours to ourselves during the day and he's in bed until at least 8 in the morning now, ha! Update 7/25/15 I don't know why, but for some reason it doesn't have a glitch anymore and works great, even with my toddler touching it. Definitely one of the best purchases I've made.

There are some other clocks with a similar function - they turn a different color or a light appears when it's time to get up, so that the child does not come knocking on their parents door too early. We did consider the more expensive versions, but since we were unsure if it would work as a sleep training aid for our daughter, we did not want to make the investment. Overall, we really like this one, and my daughter calls it her "bedtime buddy", and carries it in to our room once it's green yelling "Mommy, Daddy, my buddy turned green!" Even though we've had it for months, apparently the novelty has not worn off :-). Pros: * Battery life is good, we've only changed the batteries once since we got it 9 months ago. * The shape is cute and my daughter loves it (we used the green face plate, despite the fact that she is a girl because we liked it better) * The nightlight function is not too bright * There are a lot of options to program the light so that it not only goes on at a certain time, but you can customize how long it stays on, and even use a "nap timer" for naps. Cons: * The nightlight does not stay on very long, I would love to be able to set this so that it stays on 1/2 hour or so * While the battery life is good, I would actually prefer if it plugged into the wall * The backlight on the clock does not illuminate the time unless you press the button, so it's not very good for checking the time when you're up with a sick kid. * The buttons are easy to access in the back, so my daughter quickly figured out that she could press them. She found out that her "buddy" doesn't work right if she presses them, which is enough to keep her from playing with them (most of the time), but might be a problem for younger or more mischievous toddler. I read that some people thought the lights in the feet were too bright, but this is not our experience and they do go off with the nightlight. Also, we have not used the alarm feature so I cannot review that.

This is an awesome tool for teaching young children responsibility around waking up and nap times. We started using this clock right around our son's 2nd birthday and I do not think he would have been able to grasp the concept much earlier. It took a week or two of very consistent practices before he grasped the concept of waiting until the light turns green to get up for the day or from his nap. The clock is pretty straightforward to set up when following the instructions. There are choices between alarm only, alarm and light, or light only and various night light settings. It can be battery powered or use the AC adapter. There is no backup battery, so the alarm settings are erased if the batteries are removed. So far the first set of batteries have lasted about a month and are still going. The nap timer is set separately from the wakeup alarm and functions as a timer rather than an alarm that goes off at a specific time. For example, you would set the nap timer for 1.5 hours when putting the child down for a nap and the light turns green after that amount of time. The power of the clock lies in how consistently you enforce the rules around it. On the first few uses we would remind our son that he needed to stay in bed until the clock turned green when putting him down for the night or a nap. When he woke up upset before the light turned green, I would go in his room and sit with him until the light turned green and talked about how we had to wait. After a few times he grasped the concept. While I may go in his room to comfort before the light goes off, the rule is that he must stay in his room. This clock has been especially helpful for nap times. My son was sleeping around 45min to an hour for a nap at home. Once we started using this clock, his naps have stretched to 90-105 minutes. Again, we tell him that he must stay in his room until the light turns green. I think knowing the boundaries around naptime have helped him to choose to sleep over fighting sleep in hopes that he can do a different activity. I highly recommend this clock. I think it helps so much for kids to feel some responsibility in adhering to the structure of sleep vs. non-predictable schedules for when they wake up.

I love this item, can't say enough great things about it. Only really have two minor annoyances / complaints about it. I initially bought this for my 4 year old daughter who kept waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning asking if it was morning yet and if she could get up. We tried putting a clock in her room and telling her she couldn't get up until 6am, but that was confusing for her. She'd come in if ANY of the numbers on the clock were a 6. A family member suggested this clock to me and said it worked great for her daughter so I thought I'd try it out. After buying it for my 4 year old my 2 year old insisted on getting one of her own also. Both LOVE it! It is really easy to set the "OK to wake" time and choose if it should use light only, alarm only or both. The nap mode is brilliant. You set how long the nap should be, then when it's time for nap you just hit the nap button (on the back behind the panel) and it does a count down on the front instead of showing the current time. Nap mode also allows you to choose light only, alarm only or both for "OK to wake" time. When it is "OK to wake", it plays a cute little animation and you can choose to snooze by hitting one of the toe buttons, or turn it off by hitting the other toe button. You can choose how long the clock stays green past the end of nap or OK to wake. The first few times I used it my kids napped longer than I expected and slept through the Green OK to wake light, so when they woke up they didn't know if they could get up or not. I changed it to stay on for 2 hours past the end of nap and that worked great. There is a night light also that is independent of the "OK to wake" functions. The clock glows yellow for the night light and glows green for OK to wake. PROS: Works great! Love the nap setting. Easy enough for my two year old to use. CONS: Battery operated only, I would love for this to have an AC adapter so we wouldn't have to go through so many batteries (we've started using rechargeable ones to cut down on cost). Keep the instructions handy. It was easy enough to set up with the instructions, but when the batteries run out after only two months of use it's somewhat confusing getting it all set back up if you don't have the instructions. They are now just taped to the bottom for future use. All in all, this does everything that it claims to do and even though it is expensive for a kids clock it has been worth every dime for us.

If you have a toddler that has struggled transitioning to a big bed or gets up often you need this! There are lots of fancy wake up clocks that I debated getting but this simpler, cheaper option has done just great for us. Before getting it my son (2.5yo and newly transitioned to toddler bed) was getting up at all hours and then wanted to start his day at 5:30. No thank you! Since getting this he stays in bed until it turns green! No joke! It’s amazing. We’ve had it for 4 months now and still the first thing out of his mouth every morning is “My clock turned green!” He feels more independent with it and loves having it. He lays in bed in the morning if he wakes up before it lights up. It’s so helpful for them to get an idea of the time of night it is, and now we don’t have to lock him in his room, which also helps him feel independent. His light turns green and he comes into our room. It’s super easy to use. The nap function is very nice that you can set a time frame. I set ours at 2 hours and know he’ll stay in bed and rest/sleep for that long every day. (It locks this time frame and you just hit the nap button every day -dont have to set it every time) The clock does have an alarm sound function but we don’t use that, just the light in case he’ll sleep past the wake up time. (It’s nice you can set it for just sound, just light, or both) When we got it we set it early enough to give him some excitement and successes (he didn’t have to wait twenty minutes for it to turn green) and then we made it progressively later (getting from 5:30 to 7:20!) It was like he had subconscious peace of mind that there was no point in waking up in the night anymore. We built up the excitement of his new clock coming in the mail. He loves that it smiles at him too. We’ve also had nightmare issues since getting this and it has a nightlight that stays on for 2 hours, which has come in handy. We’ve had great success with this and soo glad I got it!

This is almost a good product. ALMOST. Great concept, my son was excited about it and proud to understand the rules: if it's yellow, stay in bed (other than to potty); if it's green, it's ok to wake up. This worked great for two nights, when my son got up in the middle of the night to potty and the clock was NEITHER yellow NOR green. Why?! Because the yellow nightlight has a mandatory off function after either 15, 30, 45, 60, or 120 minutes!!! There is no option for the nightlight portion (yellow light) to stay on all night. The green light still comes on as promised whenever you set it to, but this is too complex of a rule for a 4-year-old. Which is it? When it's yellow OR off it's not ok to wake? My son does not understand why it would go off. It appears that he doesn't trust that the clock is working and that the green light will come on when promised. I don't blame him. It's completely stupid not to be able to disable the timer on the yellow nightlight function. I don't give a hoot about a marginal bump to my power bill, which is apparently the stated reason for this "feature" - I only care about my family sleeping. There is no way this "feature" helps the environment or whatever the programmers intended by forcing that "feature" on the user, but it completely undermines the entire product. In fact, now my son is actually more likely to have a more disruptive wake-up in the middle of the night to check whether yellow light is on. Of course, it is not. You can manually turn the yellow nightlight back on prior to the ok-to-wake time by pushing a button on the foot of the clock, which is what I have to do to calm him down, but again that only lasts for 2 hours at most because of the required timer "feature." This is equivalent to buying a TV that turns itself off after forcing you to choose between one of those increments and calls that a "feature." It's not a "feature," it's a "defect." I've never used a sleep timer on my TV, and a 4-year-old definitely (and understandably) doesn't want a sleep timer on his or her nightlight, which is supposed to reassure him or her that everything is ok if he or she wakes up in the middle of the night instead of finding himself or herself in the dark when expecting not to. My son clearly wants to see either a yellow or green light when he wakes up. He is fine with it being yellow and going back to sleep if it is, but he gets upset by the lack of clarity in what he is expected to do that comes from neither color being displayed (and the unreliability of the product to function as a nightlight), which is enough to jolt him from what should be a sleepy glance to see that it's not time to get up yet to a panic about how to interpret the ambiguity created by no light being on, which is a huge defect in the product. As sleepy parents, our only options are to (1) pray that he sleeps through the night until the green light comes on (i.e., without him noticing that the yellow nightlight went off), (2) go into my son's room every time he wakes up when the yellow nightlight is off, calm him down, and turn it back on again for another 2 hours (which COMPLETELY defeats the purpose), or (3) put the clock within his reach and teach him how to turn the nightlight back on by himself, which we haven't wanted to do due to power cords, strangulation risk, etc. The point is, you should absolutely be able to turn this "feature" off, just like you don't have to use a sleep timer on a TV. That is why it is a defect. It would be so easy to program this correctly to bypass the sleep timer feature completely (which should be the default, in my opinion), and maybe the company will reprogram it since they apparently listened to user feedback about the need for a power plug (versus relying only on batteries) and added one to subsequent models. In the meantime, this product is useless to me. In fact, it made things worse than if I'd never introduced the concept, which my son really liked.

This little ok to wake clock is pretty good for the most part. There are no defects, it's simple to use, it looks nice, and most importantly, it's affordable when compared to the fancier and pricier stuff on the market. However, I'm giving it 3 stars because the green ok to wake light only stays on for half an hour. That's well and good if your small person is always awake at the same time each morning to see the light come on. But depending on how well my little boy sleeps each night, his waking time is all over the place and he sometimes sleeps an hour later than usual. By that point, the green light has already come and gone, with him none the wiser, and the poor little guy will just stay cooped up in his room while I unknowingly sleep in till 10. That's happened enough times that I feel awful on my end, and he understandably no longer trusts his clock to turn green and just gets up when he feels like it. So the clock no longer serves a purpose for us, as much as we like it otherwise. I believe this is mostly just a battery saving technique, seeing as the night light also turns off after half an hour, and the numbers on the clock aren't lit either for him to read the time in the dark. So if any of that bothers you, I'd recommend looking elsewhere. Other than that, it's a fine product.

This clocked changed our lives. Our son quit getting up as early as the sun begins to rise. Totally recommend it.

Our granddaughter loves it. She is three and it helps us to establish boundaries - and to get some sleep!

Excelente producto. Nos ha sido muy útil para mantener a un niño de 3 años, en su cuarto.

Who was too think that a digital toy clock would actually keep my son in bed? As a parent tired and frustrated you’ll literally try anything, that being said does this work for keeping my kid in bed, absolutely 110% not! And please don’t let this stop you from buying this as the product it’s self is great and very easy to use and down the road I hope it will help teach him to read time and to use an alarm clock. It’s a great concept but it didn’t work for me, not to say it won’t work for you. Another positive note it looks great in my sons room and he uses the night light on his own. Thanks all and good luck with your own sleep regression battles !!

Fantástico. En 3 días mi bebé ya despertaba más tarde. 100% recomendado