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Give me your best 3 song playlist for waking up my teenager for school. (lemmy.world)

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School has started and my teen refuses to use an alarm, leaving me to do the wakeup myself. As thr door is locked, I cannot gently awaken them. So, I decided music was great and chose the following 3 songs (played in this order and the reaction):

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

[quiet groans from inside, no movement]

Baby Shark

[whimpers and the sound of pillows shuffling]

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & Roses

[door flew open, I was forced to flee]

So three songs seems to be the sweet spot. I'd like to keep it fresh and change daily so they can't adapt. Please give me your 3-song playlist so I can continue to ~~psychologically torture~~ wake my child for school every day.

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[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think you're going about this the wrong way, You won't have wake them up if they can never fall asleep listening to every song here all night. Tell them you'll only turn it of if they set their own alarm.

Right now you're training them that the obnoxious music will be their alarm.

Also, if your kid has an android I love the alarm app called AMDroid. It is super customizable, (who knew an alarm could have so many options). It can set to do things like send a notification after a few minutes "are you awake?", if you don't respond the alarm goes again. You can set various math or word challenges to stop the alarm, you can make it only turn of if you're close enough to the router, or at a certain light level, and so on.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Also do you have a way to unlock the door? Not from a privacy breaching point, you shouldn't do that, but as a you just heard bloody murder and need to get in (or you don't get any response from them). Don't let a locked door be a 5 minute difference you'll regret.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I've been using this for years and it's so great

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