Hellobee Boards

We've had this one for a few weeks. It's hit or miss. He still wakes up and comes into our room because he needs a diaper change or needs to use the potty (his bedroom connects to the bathroom, and we've tried to stress that he can go in and potty even if the light is red, but he still won't yet ) .

He gets the concept, but I don't expect him to sit in a dirty diaper for however long. Right now after we get him cleaned up we put him back in his room. I tell him he doesn't have to stay in bed...he can read or play in his room until the light turns green. I think it'll be much more effective once he's night-trained.

This morning, for instance, he got up at 5:45 and told us he had to potty, and then told me he needed to go back to bed because the light was red. As soon as it turned green he came in our room and told us the light was green.

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We have one and have found it to be pretty effective at keeping our 3 year old in her bed. We emphasized she can't get out of bed (unless to go potty) until the light is green. At first I set the time for semi-early and progressively set it later as she got used to the process. If she gets up before the light is on, we take her back to her bed and tell her she has to stay until the light is on. She rarely does that anymore.

It took a long time for it to work consistently (started at 23 months, probably consistent at about 30 months), but it's pretty magical for us. The kid will stay in his bed 1+ hours and no longer calls out in the middle of the night. I love it so much.

Works for us. Since we got it, around three months ago, she stays in her room till it is green. Only come out early maybe 4 time. One was at 5 in the morning and I think the thunder scared her.

Works about 90% of the time for our 3.5 year old.

@chopsuey: ugh, mine says she is hungry bc she knows we can't ignore our kids going hungry!

Eh, we tried a version of this with a digital alarm clock and it worked for one day. She kept waking up earlier crying for us. Glad I didn't waste money on one of the toddler clocks.

We have been using a Tot Clock since she was 2.5 and it works brilliantly! DD's wake time is set to 8:15, and honestly, I have absolutely no idea what time she really wakes up as she never (and I mean NEVER) comes out of her room until her clock is yellow (yellow on our clock means wake up time). She also can hear the lullaby music on her clock start at bedtime and if she's playing somewhere else, she'll stop what she's doing and say 'sleepy time' - it doesn't mean she falls asleep straightaway but at least she knows it is get ready for bed time. It also works well for keeping her in her room during nap time, even if she doesn't actually go to sleep.

We really appreciate it. The clock itself works great! whether or not your child will respond positively to it is another story he gets that when it turns green, he's allowed to get up. Does that always stop him? No, it doesn't. But has it helped him understand that we all need sleep and he needs to stay quiet and stay in his bed until morning? Yes, it has. Some mornings he'll run into our room and excitedly announce, "my clock turned green! It's morning!" Other days, I can sometimes convince him to go back and stay in bed because the clock isn't green.

@Mrs. Pen: You've convinced me to buy one

Lasted a few days. Then she just got upset about it at bedtime and didn't follow it anyway.

Eta we go by when the sun comes up now.

It works well for us. We know if she calls out that something is a miss, usually it is potty related. We don't set it for naps but she thinks she has to stay in her bed until it turns green too. So now we have to check the monitor towards the end of nap. We left her in her room for almost 4 hours once because we forgot about that (oops).

@BandDmommy: Hahahh that would of been so me as a kid

@SugarplumsMom: I hope you and your child love it! I definitely think it depends on what type of kid you have too haha.

DS is 22 months, and we've had one of these since about 18 months. He's still in a cot so we don't have the issue of him getting out, but I'd say about 80% of the time he waits quietly until it turns yellow and then he calls for us. I put some books in the cot with him so he's not just sitting there! Recently I've seen him start to sometimes lay back down and try to sleep when he sees its still blue which is progress!

It was an absolute disaster for my (then) 3 year old. She really wanted to follow the rules and stay in her bed if it was green, but she was waking in the night anyway and freaking out because she wasn't supposed to come upstairs and crawl into bed with us. It culminated in her waking up and throwing the saddest fit in the living room. My husband tried to go get her and bring her to bed with us and she just cried and cried and fought him because she really wanted to follow the rules but it was night and she was awake and freaked out. It totally broke my heart. I threw the damn thing out the next morning.

@hellobeeboston: We have the clock pictured in the original post and it's yellow when they need to stay in bed and turns green when they can get up. You can adjust the setting for the yellow to last however long you want. So for us, it goes off after like an hour and is off until his wake up time when it turns green. You can also adjust the brightness some.

It has worked really well for us. It by no means keeps him in bed, but it is a way to help teach him the difference between morning and nighttime. Without it, he has no frame of reference when he wakes during the night for whether it is time to get up or not. It isn't perfect, but I really like it. We have the stoplight one. I do wish ours had an "its almost time" setting. Ours stays red until the designated time, but if he wakes 15 minutes before it is really hard for him sometimes.

We LOVE the bug clock, and it works spectacularly for us, but our kid is a rule-follower in general.