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Can anyone give me an idea of a loud alarm for my teenager? We have an on-going problem about his lack of ability to hear his and/or respond to his alarm clock. Of course his alarm clock does awake me, his light-sleeper of a mom.
A further problem is that when he does finally awake, he will either shower (or not, another on-going argument) and head to the couch, where he promptly falls asleep with his school books on top of him. When he wakes up later, he is surly because he had wanted to get a jump on schoolwork 
Ideas anyone? any ideas out there??
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No, but I was like this in college. We had bunk beds and traded off who got the top. When I was on the bottom, I'd have a windup clock ON my pillow, the clock radio across the room blaring and I still wouldn't wake up before my roommate! Maybe cuz I was such a light sleeper at home, I decided I didn't need to get up in college == I know I NEVER signed up for an 8 a.m. class! 
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I'm with you, Victoria. No words of wisdom but I do console myself with the latest reasearch on teens' unique sleep needs.
I would really like to hear about any options to the standard alarm clock. Waking up to a blaring alarm is awful...at least for me.
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Every morning I creep into Laurea's rrom and move her alarm to the dresser, not on the table next to her bed. A second alarm on another out of the way place, set 10 minutes later helps/annoys too.
If I do not move the alarm, she does not get up. She rarely moves the clock away from the bed.
Not sure about the post shower nap, but if the couch was filled with clean laundry to be folded, or something equally bumpy, maybe there would be no reason to use the couch.
DD#2 cannot go to sleep early, so the early AMs' are tough. I let her sleep late on Saturdays' to "catch up".
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My oldest son was the same. I guess I finally acknowledged reality and started waking him up myself. He still doesn't hear his alarm, at college, but somehow has trained himself to get up anyway. He hasn't slept through a class though he has had to eat breakfast on the run a couple of times.
For my second son, who can wake up by himself all right but takes a long time to actually "WAKE UP" if you know what I mean, I transition him right into the schoolwork. I get him hot cocoa, read aloud to him and give him a jumpstart on his math. By that time he's on board enough so that he can stay awake, usually, and the cocoa and passive listening don't challenge him TOO much in those waking hours.
We take showers and baths in the afternoon or evening  We're weird, I know. The house is SO much warmer by then and our biorhythmns are more in tune with the idea of getting ourselves soaked and having to take off and put on clothing
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I wake my sixteen year old up - eight o clock is the usual time here. I recognize that teens need more sleep - and, yet, I also notice that when he HAS to get up early ( for example, to work on an assignment for his uni course) he sets his mobile phone alarm high and opens his blinds so the sun will wake him up.
IOW, he *can get up when ne needs to !
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