Sonic Boom

Anthony is the most amazingly impossible teenager to wake up. We have tried several different alarm clocks but he usually sleeps right through them. We typically have to go in his room, shake him vigorously while repeatedly yelling “Wake Up!” And then when we go back in a few minutes later, he is sound asleep once again. It’s so aggravating.

So after a particularly frustrating morning, I searched “annoying alarm clocks” on Amazon and found the Sonic Alert, which reaches 113 decibels and has a powerful bed vibrator that you stick under the mattress. There are 177 5-star reviews stating that this is the only alarm clock that has ever worked for hundreds of people, including countless difficult teenagers. So I decided it was worth a shot. I think Anthony really needs to learn how to wake up on his own before he moves out of our house, which hopefully will be in a just a few short years.

Here is Day Two with his new alarm clock (Day One he had to get up extra early and I was not yet out of bed to videotape the event).

The alarm does not sound nearly as loud as it actually is. And if you listen carefully and turn up the volume, you can hear the vibration of the disk under his mattress, rhythmically shaking the bed. I know the vibration alone would wake me up.

Now, we just need to work on actually getting him to sit up and head for the shower after he’s up. Does anybody have a device for that?

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