PlayMonster OK to Wake Clock Education, 3+, Multi

I was so hesitant to buy this because of the negative reviews (and the price)- but I'm really REALLY glad I did get it. So how it works is, you can set the time, and can also set the time of the morning that you'd like it to turn green (indicating to your child that it's now OK to get up). This feature can be used, or not. You can also decide how LONG you want it to stay green (mine is set to an hour) but you can shut the green light off when your child gets up by tapping the foot. There is also an alarm feature, which we don't use but I tested. The alarm is perfect for a toddler, nothing to loud or startling. At night you can press the foot and put on the orange night light, that feature has 3 levels of dimness, and can also be set to stay on for a certain amount of time (mine is set also to an hour, on the most dim setting). So my son loves a dark room and his windows are pretty much blacked out lol but he has taken a liking to his orange light being on as he's falling asleep at night. It's good that it shuts off, because he likes it dark if he wakes up. I do believe the light has the ability to stay on all night but I don't remember 100%. When the green light comes on (at 8am in our house!) there is a cute smile face that comes on the screen. The whole thing is really cute looking actually! All the buttons to set the time and everything are in the back, large enough to understand and see well. It's really easy to set up, I can't imagine anyone having trouble with it. There is also a nap feature that you can set, so if your child is going to nap you can set the green light to go on in an hour or two, etc. The alarm can be used with the green light, if you so choose.Overall I am very pleased with this clock. Two things go take notice on: it runs on battery's, I plan to update how long our batteries last using it the way we do (orange light on for an hour at night, green light on for an hour at MOST in the a.m) so we will see how long that lasts. Being plugged in would be nice, however in our old house we hardly have any outlets so in that case I'm actually happy it's on battery's.Also, I do think it's over priced. I almost took off a star for this BUT so far it has been working great, my 3.5 year old totally gets the concept and stays in bed until it turns green, so in that regard it's worth the money. But it feels kind of cheap and so this clock is off limits to my toddler as far as playing with it/touching it goes. I do believe if he handled it to much, dropped it, knocked it around, it could break or stop working. But even if it was a regular alarm clock I'd still not let him play with it because um hello he's 3 and he doesn't need to play with an alarm clock.This clock is feature packed and I've recommended it to many people already!UPDATE::So I was interested to see how long he battery's would last and they just died this morning! So this was delivered to me in February 2015 and the batteries lasted until today, June 24, 2015 so about 4 months. This is with less expensive batteries (not name brand) and with consistent nightly use. I have the clock set so that I can put the nightlight on for 1 hour while my son falls asleep, and in the morning at 8:10 (we are late sleepers lol) his "okay to wake" light turns on and will stay on for 1 hour if need be. But I usually always go in and shut it off by 8:30. We don't use the alarm feature yet and it's not played with at all by my toddler. So! That's the battery life for this alarm clock for us and the way we use it. I'd say 6 months would be better, but you might get longer battery life if you don't use the night light feature at night, or for a shorter time, or if you use better batteries then we do.I will say, I am still very impressed with this clock. It's so easy to grab, pack and take with us to Grammys or camping, it does it's job, it's cute and it's held up so far. Really love it!Another battery life update:::Its October 10th 2015 and the batteries from June 24th just died this morning. So again, almost 4 months. About 3.5 months this time but like I said, we use off brand batteries. Even the rayovac batteries seem to last at least a few weeks longer. This alarm does take 4AA batteries and we still use this clock nightly as stated above. I wouldn't mind a plug in feature but our house seriously lacks outlets so actually the battery on this doesn't bother me. For me it's easier to change batteries then find an outlet that will allow us to reach the top of his dresser where we keep it. Hope this helps!

Wow... this thing is MAGIC!!!!!We are not new to sleep training methods... my kiddos have been great sleepers, always go to bed without a fight, and usually sleep through the night. However, my 2 year old (26 months) started having bad dreams and waking often, and it was getting exhausting. He is great at going to sleep on his own, so all we would need to do was go in, pick him up and rock him in the chair for about 2 minutes, then put him back down and he would go back to sleep on his own. We tried not picking him up, but he would NOT have that. Honestly, it wasn't really too big of a problem for awhile, since it only took about 5 minutes for everyone to be back to sleep, and it only happened a few times a week. Well before I knew it, the kid was waking and needing a snuggle over 3 times a night. With another baby in the house, the sleep deprivation started really getting to me. I was about to break down and start re-training him, and someone recommended this light.Honestly, I wasn't sure if it was going to work because he wasn't really getting up EARLY, just getting up in general, but I thought I'd give it a shot. The kid is obsessed with anything "special," so we call this his "special light" and he is in LOVE with it! We watched youtube videos on the light before it arrived, so he was SUPER excited to get it even before it came. I even let him meet the mailman to receive his "special light" and open the box himself. I taught him that off means "no crying" and green means "time to wake up!" and he is IN LOVE! We talked about how when the light is off, you don't need mama to come in, just know you can go back to sleep and when it turns green mama will come back!You guys, I am NOT kidding when I say he didn't wake up at ALL for the first 4 nights with this light. It had been a solid month before he had slept through the night before, and then all of the sudden he's making it ALL NIGHT!!!! On night 5 he woke up once crying... I was able to go in, give him a pat, tell him his light wasn't on, wait for it to come on, and he went right back to sleep without me having to pick him up!!! I seriously didn't think that not picking him up was possible without a fight from him!!! It was like MAGIC!He's always been a pretty good napper, but I work from home and can always use a bit of extra time to work during naptime. He usually naps about 1.5 hours... I started using the nap mode and can set it for 2 hours and I'm telling you... he just sits in his crib and reads his book quietly after he wakes up until the light turns green.... it is incredible!Do yourself a favor and buy this light... NOW!!CONS:- honestly, this light is somewhat poorly made.... he dropped it on day 3 from a chair to a carpeted floor and neither of the feet buttons would work... I had to take the batteries out and reset it and thankfully it worked. A few days later it completely froze after dropping it from a short distance onto carpet. The first time we had to take it with us for an overnight trip, it was packed into the top of an open tote bag (not overstuffed) and the little ears of the faceplate turned white from bending damage (like they might break off!). TBH, I could care less... take all my money bc this thing is giving me SO much good sleep for the whole family! Need to go ahead and order a backup bc if it completely breaks I can guarantee we will have a night full of tears and no sleep.