Loud alarm clock needed
Loud alarm clock needed
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The Gauge

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6,403 posts

36 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Any suggestions for really loud alarm clocks please?

My 18yr old son really struggles waking up in the morning, his phone alarm and any alarm clock he's tried fail to wake him.

Quattr04.

980 posts

14 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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A smart speaker like a Sonos one with Alexa built in, you couldn’t ignore that on full blast

cookie1600

2,503 posts

184 months

ApOrbital

10,506 posts

141 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Pyle 50W Megaphone Speaker with Microphone Loud Bullhorn Megaphones with Siren & Adjustable Volume.

GetCarter

30,808 posts

302 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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You could try the carrot rather than the stick. I've not needed an alarm clock in 40 years as it's piss easy to learn how to wake up at a certain time.

Give him £xx every time he wakes up on time... he'll soon learn how to do it.

:0)

PauloHendo

11 posts

14 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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You could try treating him like an adult who is in charge of his own destiny. Give him a week of being late, then kick him out.

Jonmx

2,870 posts

236 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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PauloHendo said:
You could try treating him like an adult who is in charge of his own destiny. Give him a week of being late, then kick him out.
rolleyesrolleyes

Have the curtains open, natural light coming in helps to wake up slowly before the alarm clock goes off.

Road2Ruin

6,218 posts

239 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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A good old-fashioned one with bells at the top. It is impossible to ignore them

Sporky

10,504 posts

87 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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A Lumie bodyclock. Not loud, but the gradually increasing light and birdsong changed my waking up.

geeks

11,162 posts

162 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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The Gauge said:
Any suggestions for really loud alarm clocks please?

My 18yr old son really struggles waking up in the morning, his phone alarm and any alarm clock he's tried fail to wake him.
As a super heavy sleeper who is capable of sleeping through various loud things I can sympathise.

Two alarms, one close to bed, the second across the room. Old school bell type ones that really shake you from your sleep.

Vsix and Vtec

1,316 posts

41 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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I found an intrusive noise rather than a loud one was most effective when I was a yoof. Get one of those alarms with a buzzer rather than a bell, and put it on the other side of the room. He'll have to get up to turn it off, unlike a smart watch and phone combo.

Or a failing that, a pail of water to the face will always wake them.

mikef

6,158 posts

274 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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The Gauge said:
Any suggestions for really loud alarm clocks please?

My 18yr old son really struggles waking up in the morning, his phone alarm and any alarm clock he's tried fail to wake him.
I use a Sony XDR-C1DBP DAB/DAB+/FM mains clock radio
https://amzn.eu/d/ig7FMKD
Never slept through it

BrownEaredDog

1,285 posts

124 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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geeks said:
The Gauge said:
Any suggestions for really loud alarm clocks please?

My 18yr old son really struggles waking up in the morning, his phone alarm and any alarm clock he's tried fail to wake him.
As a super heavy sleeper who is capable of sleeping through various loud things I can sympathise.

Two alarms, one close to bed, the second across the room. Old school bell type ones that really shake you from your sleep.
This is the answer. Multiple alarms a few minutes apart on his phone and a good old fashioned alarm clock with bells somewhere that can't be reached from the bed smile

entropy

6,357 posts

226 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Alarm clocks for the hard-of-hearing are extra loud and have a vibrating pad to put under the pillow.

https://www.connevans.co.uk/catalogue/172/Alarm-cl...

Spare tyre

12,055 posts

153 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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wildoliver

9,217 posts

239 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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There are 2 potential issues.

Either he genuinely sleeps through the alarm, due to poor hearing, an incredibly deep sleeper or possibly even able to while asleep turn an alarm off.

Or he is just not a morning person, wakes up and thinks sod it.

I'm not judging at all, I used to be that person, I was an up late and struggle to get up early person, but I can honestly count on about 2 fingers the amount of times I honestly slept through an alarm, despite using the slept through excuse.

Going to bed earlier obviously helps, it helps to wake naturally, but by far the biggest change for me was leaving curtains open at night. Going to sleep when dark and waking up with the light. It transformed my sleep patterns and I felt much healthier for it, I don't need to now, but it was honestly what I used to transition from being a teenager with sticky back syndrome to a grown up, honestly he needs to do the same I suspect.


stevemcs

9,962 posts

116 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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mikef

6,158 posts

274 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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stevemcs said:
Wow. Is that even legal?

evenflow

8,846 posts

305 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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entropy said:
Alarm clocks for the hard-of-hearing are extra loud and have a vibrating pad to put under the pillow.

https://www.connevans.co.uk/catalogue/172/Alarm-cl...
I've got similar. It's great.