The Gro Company Gro-Clock Sleep Trainer

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EDIT: We’re still using a Gro Clock around five years on – although she can tell the time, it’s been useful shorthand to insist certain things can only happen after ‘one star’. The downside of this hack: If your kid happens to sleep in one morning, the bright lamp might wake them up.

He hasn’t got the waking part fully yet but is happy to go back into his room if I ask him “is the sun awake on the clock yet? As the time passes and reaches your pre-set wake-up time, the stars start to gradually disappear until there are only hearts left and our lovable Ollie the Owl appears awake on a yellow background. As your child grows the sleep trainer can also be used as a handy nightlight for comfort and reassurance or for when your toddler needs a night-time toilet trip As your child gets older, parents can choose to set the optional audible alarm – perfect for routine wake-up times.The kiddies have enjoyed staying in bed every morning watching until the sun comes up and I’ve managed to get a bit more sleep. The brightness can be adjusted so it took us a couple of nights to find the perfect brightness for us. A simple piece of kit that fits over your usual bedside lamp or overhead light, this light offers a soft glow when you flick the switch.

N seems to be a bit better but we would like to nip it in the bud before he gets to J’s age and is still having sleep and bed time issues which is a nightmare to deal with every night with one child, let alone two. As with all Gro products, these are well thought out, practical, easy to use and designed with children and parents in mind. In terms of the light, I was worried too so I just placed it on my daughters cabinet next to her bed so it wasn't shining in her face all night.The clock is also very lightweight, which is perfect for travel – and if you have a toddler who’ll wait for the sun to rise, that could be hugely helpful with jetlag. We chose to do it manually as J likes to say goodnight to the face on the clock – I like this feature as it is friendly for the child and they can relate to it like J does. In this case, we’ll need to slowly push bedtime back by 5 mins every couple of nights as we adjust the morning time. A reward chart to show their achievement when they successfully wait for the sun can really help motivate little ones to stick to their new wake up time.

We have tried pretty much everything with J over the last 3 years and barely anything has actually worked, so I was delighted for us to be able to review The Gro Clock from The Gro Company as I have heard good things about them. time settings and audible alarm: With 2 settings you can set a different weekday, weekend or naptime wake up times and the optional audible alarm features is perfect for routine wake up times. The Gro Company was founded in 2000, the result of two parents’ battle to get their baby to sleep at night.

As a lot of parents do I have been dreading the lighter mornings as it means that the kiddies will be getting up even earlier than before so I started to look for a solution. I really want them to achieve this goal and get such an instant sense of achievement because we made it easy for them to do. You can set the clock to your own bed times and get up times so it is personal to your child, and then you can also set it to come on automatic or you can do it manually with your child. Fortunately, a combination of me telling her it was night-time, a dark bedroom and her Gro Clock all seemed to keep her quiet for another hour (even if I couldn’t get back to sleep). Once I’d got the hang of it, I calmed down – but I recommend taking your first look at the Gro Clock without the children around!

m.) and you’ve purchased a Gro Clock to solve this problem, you might be tempted to set the clock’s sun to appear at 6:30 a. Some mention that the brightness has never been an issue for them having a newer model with fully adjustable, features.They also mention that there is no automatic daylight saving program, so you will have to remember to adjust this, and that the Sun does not stay onscreen throughout the day. As your child gets older, parents can choose to set the optional audible alarm – perfect for routine wake-up times. The clock displays the time in digital format but also shows the passing of time using colours and symbols which your child will love.