PlayMonster OK to Wake Clock Education, 3+, Multi

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.

UPDATE: Our kiddo is now 8 years old and still works like a charm! Can’t recommend enough.—-We bought this when our daughter was 2yo at a recommendation of a friend, and it's fantastic!We talked to our daughter about it, had her name him ("Milo"), and explained how it worked. The first week we set the timer at a time that she usually wakes up, so we could just show her how it works and not have to "fight" with it right away. Then as she got used to it, we set the timer later in the morning. (7:30am works for us.) She knows that she isn't to get up (unless to use the potty) until "Milo turns green".Having the nap option is fantastic as well. We set it for 2 hours when we put her down, and still works like a charm.It's been over a year, and I highly recommend trying it. I'm sure it doesn't work for everyone, but it's been GREAT for us. No fights, no fuss. She understands how it works and we don't have to push it.PROS:- Light up option (we don't use the sound alarm, but maybe will later as she gets older.)- Looks cute, so it's fun for our daughter.- Nap timer is awesome.- Easy to take along when traveling.- Love that you can plug it in and also use batteries. When the power has gone out or flickered, it doesn't shut off or restart; it just uses the battery power until it comes back on.CONS:- None for us, but I could understand if other kids just don't work well with it.SUGGESTION: From hearing from other parents, I suggest starting this as young as possible. We started it at 2yo, and it seems like the older the kids are, the harder it is to introduce it.

Just purchased this for my almost-two-year-old who had been waking up progressively earlier over the previous few weeks. So far, the clock has worked like a dream. Toddler stays in bed in the mornings until the clock glows green, sometimes 10-15 minutes past the time I set the clock for (I have the light set to glow for up to 30 min). Toddler LOVES having a "big kid" clock and understood from the very first morning that green meant "ok to wake up" and no light meant go back to sleep or read.I read a lot of reviews of this and other products before purchasing this model, and I think we made the best choice of the options out there. I like that the clock has a digital time display, and toddler loves to recognize and call out the numbers on the clock face during the day. I like that the wake light can be used with or without an audible alarm. One review mentioned that the reviewer would rather have AC power than batteries, but with a little one, I'm glad there aren't any cords for toddler to pull or play with. Another reviewer mentioned that the wake light didn't stay on long enough, but this can be adjusted in the settings.The only reason I gave this product 4 stars instead of 5 is that toddler dropped this product on the very first day. It wasn't a serious drop - less than a foot onto thick carpet - and the clock was not damaged. However, the drop was enough to jostle the batteries and reset the clock back to factory default. This is a real pain. I think this could be fixed easily and cheaply by the manufacturer adding some foam on the inside of the battery compartment door to cushion drops and keep the batteries in place.One further improvement I would recommend to the manufacturer is that the Nap function should also use the light feature. As I understand from reading the manual, the nap function is essentially just an audible alarm after a set period of time. I don't really want to wake up my toddler if nap time goes a few minutes past normal, so a glowing light (like in the mornings) would be much better than an audible alarm. It took some explaining to toddler that "the clock doesn't work for nap time."For our main purpose, which was to get toddler to wake up at regular times every day, this product has been great, and I would recommend it.