Wake up Alarm help needed | ADHD Information
Adapt an alarm to spill water on him somewhere?OOOOO, there you go!
Connect the alarm to a 12v system that amps the voltage like a sparkplug.
Then connect it somewhere to his body.
Get him to bed earlier?
I know you are out there you psycho ADHD geniuses What can you come up with?
Firstly as Davido said he must get more sleep and earlier bedtime. It all comes down to if he wants it he is going to have to want to do things to make it work.
My mother used to sing me awake. Not as I liked it but the opposite. I thought her voice was harsher than any alarm lol. Got me up most mornings like that.
If he has a type of music that he just hates you could get an alarm with a CD player in it. Say he hates country - find the loudest CD and set it to autoplay when it's time to get up and set it across the room. Either he'll bolt up to shut it off or he'll become accustomed to a music he hates.
Thanks for the suggestions....the problem with getting to bed earlier is that he would have to go to bed at ~8pm which is difficult with all the homework.
I honestly like the idea of water, maybe a spray so that where ever he is on the bed it will hit, but light enough so that the bedding has a chance to dry...
one incentive is money...
if he was aware enough to know there was money about to drop in a slot within a certain time limit, I wonder if he would be able to get up...
I like the idea of country music...
for awhile we tried a tape of my dh telling him to wake up and put his feet on the floor...it kind of worked and needed more adapting.
now that i think about it, i discovered that country music would wake me up in h.s. the novelty along with the heartbreak lyrics always got my attention. This was in the 60s. I didn't know anyone that listened to country then.
thanks for some suggestions...and proposals for ds... i will need to nail him down to figure out what will work for him
Meanwhile if you have schematics for a multisensory/incentive/aversion alarm with just one plug send it to me!
I am looking for some suggestions regarding waking up my difficult to rouse 17 1/2 year old ds. This has always been a problem but particularly this year when he needs to wake up at 5:30 am. He can sleep with loud alarms/music blasting in his ear. We have tried combinations of auto timed lights, music and a loud obnoxious clangy alarm clock. Has anyone used a sonic boom alarm clock with light? bed vibrator w/alarm? I would like him to wake up independently, because I don't need to get up that early and don't want to be responsible for waking him up. I have thought of a pulley system to pull the covers off, a sprinkler system, and a pneumatic lift for one end of the bed to get him vertical. 
Honestly though, any suggestions?
I have an alarm cat. [QUOTE=Nikki Stone]How about something positive?
i.e., if he like bacon, the smell wafting into his room and let his olfactory system takeover!
[/QUOTE]ummm, the smell of COFFEE!!
Hola, Nikki, Como estas, hoy?
Cafe siempre me hace saltar de la cama!!!
Yo creo que mejor ponerme el caffeine(sp?) directamente en las venas...pero mi vida no hay manera!!!!!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=Nikki Stone]ponerme el caffeine(sp?) directamente en las venas..
[/QUOTE]Buena, idea!
How about something positive?
i.e., if he like bacon, the smell wafting into his room and let his olfactory system takeover!
I'll let you know if I come up with some new ideas. A month in a half to go and school is over and the Wake up Team gets a break.
We had relatives visiting including two teenage girls. When they were
still not awake at 11:00 and needed to pack up to catch the next leg of
their trip, their mom gave all the boys in the house (there were four)
permission to rouse them. I gave each boy a saucepan and a spoon. They
silently crept to their room, opened the door, and you can imagine the
din they made.They got up!
Now if you could get an alarm clock to do that...
IMac- I used to have one of those!
I'm giving all these suggestions to my youngest son to come up with a supermultisensory device...a motor mounted to the ceiling to yank the covers off, spry water and drop the cat. All this in case the country music and bacon don't work. jfla2, I should add I am sympathetic about your teenage son's difficulty in waking up. My son was a very deep sleeper and when he was still living at home and working swing shifts, back to back, he used to ask me to wake him up because he would sleep through any alarm. His alarm would go off and eventually wake up the whole house and he would be sound asleep. He also likes the t.v. on really low volume to get to sleep. Who knows if this isn't part of the problem? CD ALARM CLOCK WHERE FAVORITE CD COMES ON INPLACE OF A BEEP. GET IN BED SAME TIME NIGHTLY. THIS TRAINS BODY TO WAKE UP SAME TIME. SPEND 1 MONTH ON THIS. IF i DIDN'T WAKE OUR KIDS THEY WOULD BE LATE DAILY. A BED TIME DOESN'T MATTER WITH THEM. NOT MORNING PEOPLE. Awesome. Do you tap dance? Here's some funny advice from a creative ADDer
. Just thought I'd give you all a few laughs. I have an 11 year old ADD daughter that can be pretty difficult to rouse, so I've come up with some pretty interesting methods. One of the things I've done was to go into her room and get creative with some of her toys and gadgets. Last week it was her wiffle bat. I started yelling batter up and was hitting her pillows across the room with the bat. I then walked in with a cup of water and proceeded to tell her that "The waterboy is now on the field and he is going to douce the players!". Needless to say, she was up pretty quick. One method was the radio, "Breakfast with the Beatles" She listened to "We all live in a Yellow submarine every morning, and quite loud. I happen to love the Beatles but she doesn't, hee hee hee. Another method I use is scales. I am a soprano and I just start with my scales getting higher and louder until she just can't take it anymore . Seriously though, this has always been a tough one for me with my daughter. Lately I have been trying consequences. If she misses the bus, she loses use of the computer for 2 days. Knowing this, she makes sure her alarm is set and is up at the appropriate time. Even so, she stills needs some help some days. Going to bed at the appropriate time is also extremely important. No sugary food or drinks either before bed. Some people just have an extremely hard time waking and need some help. I know how frustrating it can be. Losts of good advice on this thread from everyone. My thoughts are with ya as I deal with it every day too. Hang in there, from a friend minus a shoe. Dee
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I've heard or read that one of the symptoms of ADD/HD is difficulty rousing. Ds' doc seems to think there is nothing wrong with having us wake him up with a warm washcloth...he doesn't think that I need to develop that "skill in him for waking up" (sounds funny). Personally I think that's part of growing up and being responsible. The doc thinks that ADHD people set up a support system for taking care of things that they don't do well or maybe don't want to do. Since I don't want to do it then ds needs to find another support he says. What happens when he goes away to college I asked. The response was that he would get a room mate to do it. I wouldn't want to depend on a roommate.
I am also not very good any more about reminding him to set his alarm or getting him to figure it out. Too tired at the end of the day.
Thanks for listening.
jfla238835.8162152778 [QUOTE=Countrygirl] [QUOTE=Nikki Stone]
ponerme el caffeine(sp?) directamente en las venas..
[/QUOTE]Buena, idea!
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Oh, Dios Mio!...Acabo de snort cafe por mi naris!!!
[QUOTE=IMac]I have an alarm cat. [/QUOTE]
I have an alarm bladder.
Great advice lostmyshoe!
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