wakeup time

I'm not exactly sure when it happened but all of our children have acquired clock radio alarm clocks. There seems to be some appeal to having the clock alarm set to help them wake up in the morning.

On the surface this seems like a really good thing. Instead of having to go in and wake your kids up every morning and rushing them to get ready for school, they will be awoken by their alarm with plenty of time and there will be no rush. That, is the story anyway.

In our house what seems to be the pattern is that they set the alarm and drift happily of to sleep. The alarms are set sufficiently early that Melissa and I are still typically in bed unless I am out running (through that in for you DC). The problem is that when the alarms go off, instead of waking up the children, they seem to shove them into some kind of coma like sleep.

Litterally there is music of all kinds BLARING through the second floor and they will be out like a light!!! I don't know what is happening but it is a crazy symphony of noise coming from the rooms and the kids are snoozing away!

We are going to have to make a change to electric shocks I guess because these kids are deeeep in REM sleep, but we aren't!!