Is There a Good Product That Indicates If It Is Morning or Not?

Holy cow......I just want to add to all the comments below that there is nothing wrong with a 2 1/2 yr old in a crib. If she is happy, feels safe and cozy, who cares? I can pretty much guarantee she will not be dragging her crib with her to college and her 2 1/2 yr old friends won't be ridiculing her for her sleeping preferences. This was a simple question ladies and some of you are pretty mean.

I love the toddler stop light. When it's red you stay in bed, when it's green it's time to get up. It ends up like a little game for them. They are fairly inexpensive and can be found on diapers.com, amazon, and jet.com.

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i dunno, my toddlers woke up when they woke up. i'm not sure an owl yelling at them to go back to sleep would work any better than grumpy mom saying the same thing.
i taught mine to play quietly in their cribs if they woke too early.
sometimes it even worked.
khairete
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As much as I didn't love it, I just took this as part of parenting. My son always woke up before I wanted him to, and it was my job to get up, also.

Now my boys are 6 & 9, and when they get up they know how to turn on the tv or read a book or play with their toys or entertain themselves in some way. It's fabulous! They can even get their own breakfast, to an extent. Yesterday I dragged myself out of bed and showed them where the donuts from the day before were. My husband laughed at my awesome parenting skills, but we both knew that donuts once in awhile never hurt anyone and we really needed the extra sleep.

Hang in there and just get up when your daughter gets up, even if it's 5:00 am. It won't last forever.

You are trying to find devices that will get her to stay in bed if she gets up too early but wakes her if it is too late? It is called a human. When my kids got up too early I told them to go back to bed. If they needed to get up I woke them. Never would it have occurred to find electronics to do my parenting for me.

Our boy was in a crib until he was 3.5. He wasn't inclined to climb out and we felt safer with him there. We didn't use a device to curb early wake ups. Instead we told him to stay in bed and relax until it was 7. Sometimes he would talk to himself or sing quietly other times he would fall asleep again. He around three he learned how to tell if it was 7 and would largely keep quiet until wake up time.

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Can you leave her curtain or shade on her window open a little bit?
When it's light outside - it's morning.

Our son never cared if it was morning or not - when ever he woke he'd climb out of his crib and make a bee line for our room.
Once he figured out we'd take him back to his crib if he woke us up - he got smart and just tucked himself in at the foot of our bed without waking us.
When we woke up we'd find him sleeping there and holding onto my foot - but we all got a lot more sleep once he started doing that.

Can you not tell her yourself? I've never heard of a machine to do this nor would I even want to use it. This is part of parenting and you need to experience it. Plus your child needs to know you are there...not an owl telling her it's too early.

I'm sorry - I don't understand what you are looking for here....you want a device to tell your child to go back to bed?? What's wrong with being a PARENT and telling her it's too early?? Yes, this is part of parenting...you don't get all the beauty sleep you want....you need to PARENT your child.

Why is she still in a crib at 2.5 years old?? Sorry - but my kids were out of cribs at 2 and in beds.

YOU need to tell your child it's too early. YOU need to tell your child to go back to sleep now. That's YOUR JOB as a parent.

Why is a 2.5 yr old still in a crib?
Maybe it's time to allow her to feel empowered and grown up in a toddler bed.

We didn't use toys to remind daughter to not get up yet, we used our voices. Children need to know you are around. The sun shining in the mornings was helpful too.

Get a timer for a light in her room. When the light comes on its morning and time to get up. No light then its too early and you need to go back to sleep.

I've heard of a sun/moon nightlight that helps kids understand when they can get up.

If you can teach her to recognize numbers, you can put a regular digital clock in the room and teach her that she can't gt up until the first number is a 6. That's what I did with both my kids, but I don't remember what age...

I totally get where you're coming from. Please don't listen to the responses that say you're not doing your job as a parent. If a child is always waking up too early, then both the child and the parent end up sleep deprived and we all know what that can lead to. Also, there's nothing at all wrong with a 2.5 year old in a crib if they don't try to climb out. My daughter was a month past her third birthday when we switched her to a twin bed. I think toddler beds are a waste since you only need them for a short time.

Here's a product that worked wonders for both my kids: http://www.amazon.com/Stoplight-Sleep-Enhancing-Groovy-Bu...

You set the "alarm" at night and it turns on a red light. When they can get up in the morning, the light turns green. The yellow light is just a nightlight. I believe this clock also has an audio alarm if you get to the point where you want that, but I've never used it.

When my kids were younger, they knew that they could stay and play quietly in their rooms if the light was still red and they couldn't sleep anymore. I hope it works for you.

Toddler beds are a relatively new thing and not needed. My daughter bought a toddler bed for her first. She slept in it, perhaps for a month. The bed is the same size as a crib and uses the crib mattress. My daughter didn't use it for next 3 babies even tho it's still in my basement. I really don't see a need for another expense. Your toddler is fine in her crib.

If you don't care if she sleeps late, then put a timer on a small lamp. Standard hardware store item. It might wake her up sooner than she needs to on days she happens to sleep late, but at least if it's still dark, it will tell her not to get up yet. That's assuming she remembers what the drill is.

I understand the "parenting" responses below but if you have a kid who gets up every 10 minutes starting at 5 AM and asks some version of "Is it time yet?", it can turn into a major sleep deprivation issue for parents and child.

Is there a reason she is still in a crib? Sometimes toddlers will get up and play in their rooms if they aren't confined to a crib where the only option is yelling for Mom and Dad to come extract them from the crib.

The best natural product to let your child know when it's time to get up is the sun. This is a part of parenting that most people go through, just keep telling your child to go back to sleep until it is light out.

Maybe hang a bag of small toys or toddler books on the side of the crib so she can keep herself entertained if she doesn't go back to sleep, or keep her up a little later at night.

Teach Me Time Talking Alarm Clock?

Didn't work.

I agree with other mom's: you have to teach her how to entertain herself when it is not time to wake up.

This is a good thing for her to learn (but takes a lot of work right now).

Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/Wake-Childrens-Alarm-Clock-Nightlig...

We used the sun, if the sun was waking up, then it was morning, no sun, then not morning yet. :)

I got a chuckle reading the responses below.

I have seen a question like this on here I thought (?) at one point or another. Maybe use the search feature. I think I know what you are talking about although I never used one.

My kids played quietly in their cribs or beds as instructed :) Or I'd get up. It's such a short time, it was ok with me to be up a bit earlier and hang with them while we let Dad sleep, and he'd take a turn.

Just want to add that it's fine that she's in a crib. As long as she's not climbing out, and you've adjusted the mattress to the lowest level, she's fine. You can start checking into a standard bed so you'll know what you want when the time comes.

I'm not clear if your daughter is waking too early, or if she's sleeping past 6:00 and you need her up earlier. If you need her to be up at 6:00 (or whatever time), it's not too early to start with an alarm. Find a character alarm she likes and set it for the time you want her up.

If she's waking too early, you may try to adjust bedtimes, but it's likely that this is just her internal clock, and you have to go with it for now. Usually, kids start sleeping a little bit later as they grow.

I never heard of such a thing. I knew that after a certain time in the morning I WOULD be up because they were awake. It was easier for me to change my schedule then and sleep when they took a nap to keep up with things during the day.

I also had a schedule for the day of things they did and I did. My housework was broken into segments per day in the am and pm so that all was done and tidy without extra stress of an upside down home. We went out to the park day (walked down the hill) and played and hubby would pick us all up on his way home from work.

As a parent you give up the sleeping in until they are teens. Then you are not sleeping at night worrying and wondering where they are after 12 midnight.

When they leave home, you can sleep in again and do your own thing.

Yes a toddler or twin bed is in order -- crib is for baby. There is such a thing as a baby gate at the door to keep child in and playing with toys until it is time to get breakfast.

the other S.

PS My kids were awake by 6am each day if not earlier and they went to bed by 800pm.

Well, a crib is really for infants, toddler beds are for toddlers, and she's older than either of those now that she's a preschool age kid.

Baby bed mattresses have a weight limit then whomever is sleeping on them can feel ever spring, they have about zero support, and it's flat out uncomfortable.

She should be in a regular bed by now. It's a wonder she isn't climbing out and wandering around.

I'd say she is waking up because she's had enough sleep. Perhaps you can adjust her sleep schedule so she goes to bed later and when her hours of needed sleep are up she'll wake up a little later. Kids only need so many hours of sleep per day. If she's going to bed by 8 pm and waking up by 6am then maybe if she goes to sleep at 9pm she'll sleep from 9pm til 7am. They're too little to sleep more than 10 hours at night, their bodies are screaming for food by that time.

It should also be dark in her room. If she's waking up for the day then that's on you. You are putting her down too early for bed. If she's a fussy sleeper all of a sudden then she is probably about to have a growth spurt and her body requires food in the middle of the night. Feed her something and then put her back down. If she's been a good sleeper and is now having these issues then look at the environment. Is she hearing something at that time? Is she done sleeping for the night? Did the neighbor leave for work at that time? Does the heat and air kick on the same time each morning to start a new cycle? We have ours set to come on and bring the house temp up around 7am. It kicks on and goes for a while to warm it up.

There are many things that can trigger her to wake up. But if she's simply done sleeping the hours she needs for her body there isn't anything you can do but get up with her. Or put her to bed later and get her in a different bed.