<p>My 17 year old son's alarm will go off at 5:40am, he will awake, turn it off and then wait a few minutes before getting out of bed, sometimes he falls back into sleep so I have to call out to him at 5:50 if I don't see him up and out of bed, what options are there for this nowadays? Is there an alarm device that can be set to trigger at different intervals instead of just once or something similar? We need to find something effective and apply it right now so it becomes the norm since I won't be there with him in College this fall to get him out of bed.
Also, seeing that he most likely will be living in a dorm with a roommate, I am guessing that he might be better off getting some sort of quiet alarm [maybe a "vibration" system?] so he does not awaken his roommate? Any ideas please? Thanks.</p>
<p>The regular Snooze function works on our alarm clocks multiple times. We tried the vibration alarm for an early riser with a sleeping roommate; for some reason it never worked. The idea is good, however.</p>
<p>I will look more into the snooze function of his alarm now that you've mentioned it so if the vibration did not work how did yours and his/her roommate deal with this?</p>
<p>In college he won't need to get up that early unless he is in crew or something. There is quite a bit of difference between 5:40 and a time two to six hours later. Even with the same amount of sleep, some people need daylight in order to wake up thoroughly on their own. </p>
<p>Your son may turn out to be like my son -- who does his best to schedule later classes.</p>
<p>my daughter didn't have a roommate- but her friend across the hall would make sure she was up ;)
also in college you don't have to get up before 6am- she often rolled out of bed 10 minutes before her 9 am class I believe.</p>
<p>I think they learn very quickly when they know no one will be there to wake them. Right now he knows you will be there. Let him miss a few classes next fall and he too will learn how to do it on his own. :)</p>
<p>He will be on the Football team and most likely will be working too so no matter how early he will have to be up he will always be more on the "tired" side which is why I am thinking it may be best for him to get something that he can rely on just to be sure. We had already tried leaving him on his own to do this but it badly affected his grade in his early class one time and so to ensure that this does not happen again, this the reason why I do it when he lapses. I am very gratefull for all of these tips, please keep them coming, if I do find anything reliable, I will post here, thanks.</p>
<p>I am a very deep sleeper and have had some problems waking up to alarms all my life. This was not a problem in hs because, like you, my mom would come to my rescue. During frosh and soph years in college I lived on campus. My solution on mornings I had an important exam was to let our maid Ruthie know the afternoon before and she would roust me out of bed the next morning. On moving off campus I merely turned my radio alarm up full blast. Worked every time.</p>
<p>I've been getting myself up with no help from parents since about 3rd grade so it isn't something I really have a problem with... I just set the alarm to the latest possible time that will allow me to be ready when I need to be and never press snooze. </p>
<p>Some of my friends who have a lot of trouble getting up on time set up systems where people take turns making sure everyone is awake.</p>
<p>Generally people don't complain too much about the roomie's alarm going off. It's a fact of dorm life. Being considerate ususally involves turning the alarm off as soon as possible though, so the no one has to listen to that annoying sound for 10 minutes straight.</p>
<p>D is getting more sleep in college than she did in the last two years of high school. There were times that devices such as a crow-bar or forklift were necessary. See also, "Zits."</p>
<p>Of course, there is the old trick of putting the alarm clock in a position where you need to get out of bed to reach it.</p>
<p>I used to have to wake up my old roommate at 4:30a so he could be at work by 6. He would sleep right through the alarm clock, so I just got a whistle to wake him up. Nothing is funnier than someone who is in a deep sleep being awoken by a whistle. Well maybe an airhorn wakeup.</p>
<p>My alarm clock gets louder and louder each time I hit snooze, if I get up and forget to turn it off, the whole neighborhood wakes up</p>
<p>it also sound like church bells chiming, so it really works</p>
<p>and mine also has the off switch in an awkward spot so that it takes a second or two to find the switch</p>
<p>the getting louder with each snooze is great and I can adjust the time between alarm going off again, so I can set it for every 2 minutes, instead of say 5 minutes</p>
<p>it really works</p>
<p>I have a loud and annoying analog alarm clock and I put it on top of the TV, so it's very hard to reach. It works everytime, never missed a class cos of oversleeping.</p>
<p>I have a cd alarm clock. I have to set the cd fairly loud and I set both alarms (about 15 minutes apart) so that if I get out of bed, turn off the alarm, and go back to sleep, I'll wake up again 15 minutes later. I keep my alarm clock a ways away from my bed, too, so that I have to get up to get to it. </p>
<p>When I had a roommate, I just tried to turn off the alarm as soon as possible so that I wouldn't cause too much disturbance. There were also days that my roommate would sleep through her alarm and wake me up, so it kind of evened itself out. I don't think a vibrating alarm would do anything to get me out of bed.</p>
<p>The next time it happens just don't wake him up. (Warn him first.) When he realizes he's late for school he'll panic. He won't be late again.</p>
<p>These are some really very nice ideas, I will try ALL of them until I find the one that works best for him, please keep the ideas coming, thanks!</p>
<p>They do make some superloud alarm clocks these days. Snooze alarm abuse can make a kid very unpopular with his roommate. Finally, although I don't recommend this, you wouldn't be the only person in the world calling her college kid on his cell phone to make sure he is up in the morning.</p>
<p>some people need light to wake them up. could you get a very strong light and put it by your son's bed, then rig it up to a timer so it automatically turns on when he needs to be up? and also try getting a radio alarm and setting it VERY LOUD. this will suck for a roommate, but really there's nothing better than waking up at 7 and realizing you can sleep for 2 more hours. so i dont think it'll be a problem.</p>
<p>a few years ago, i had the same problem. I found an alarm clock with 3 mechanisms, noise, light and vibration. It was on a hearing impaired site i believe. I found it by Googling alarm clocks</p>