The Yelling-Free Alarm Clock Hack

I was tired of yelling “Get up!” 27 times every morning. By the time everyone was out of bed, I was already annoyed and we hadn’t even found the shoes yet.

So I handed the first round of wake-up duty to Alexa. I set an alarm in each kid’s room using a song they absolutely do not want to hear first thing in the morning. Suddenly, I wasn’t the one standing in the hallway repeating myself.

​Parenting win.

Want to try it? Set an alarm on the device in your kid’s room for the time they need to get up. Pick a song or sound that will actually get their attention, and test the volume before a school morning. If one alarm is easy to ignore, set a second one a few minutes later.

The alarm won’t pack lunches or locate a missing backpack, but taking “GET UP!” off my morning script is one less battle before coffee.
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What gets your kids out of bed? If you have a school-morning hack, share it in the comments.