Learning Resources Time Tracker Visual Timer & Clock - 1 Piece, Classroom Tracker, Alarm Clock, Light Up Timer for Classroom, Visual Tracker

UPDATE (NOV 2013):We had another child in March of 2012 and he has finally reached the age where he is chatting a lot, very interested (in EVERYTHING), can communicate with us (modestly), and we can in turn communicate back to him. I love 18 months old!!!Due to the structure of our home, we decided to setup his crib in our bedroom. It has been working out very well, but in the past couple months he has been waking up at a ridiculous hour (5am or earlier) and will not stay quiet. If I get out of bed and talk to him, cover him up with his blankie, and say "It's night-night time..." he WILL lie there quietly until our alarm goes off or one of us gets up to go to the bathroom. Because of his responsiveness to my chats, I decided to break out our Time Tracker once again. It has been in a drawer since our other Son turned 4 years old and outgrew time outs and sleeping timers.I set the Time Tracker the same way I did for our other Son (12 hrs Green; 50 seconds Yellow; 10 seconds Red...yes, this Boy will sleep from 6:30pm to 6:30am, no problem). On the first and second night we setup the Time Tracker, our Baby Boy thought it was fun to point at and scream. But he soon lost interest in it and now I can turn it on, put him down for sleep, and if he wakes up before the designated time (6:30am) and starts making noise, I walk to his cribside, remind him that "Green Light is Night-Night" and he will honest-to-goodness either go back to sleep or just lay in the crib with his blankie & stuffed animal, sucking his thumb, and stay quiet until the Time Tracker turns Yellow (and then Red). Most times he is awake and starts yelling once the Tracker turns Yellow because he is excited to wake up. But some other times, he falls back asleep and he completely misses the Tracker turning Yellow or Red (no issue there...if he's asleep, we let him sleep!).The Time Tracker has worked for both of our boys and we've definitely gotten our milage out of it considering I bought it back in 2009. I'll probably use it once our youngest is old enough for Time Outs too. And once I pulled the device out of the old junk drawer, I had no problems remembering how to set and reset it...it really is a great device for kids!-------------------------------------------------------------------------After reading many of the negative reviews on the Learning Resource Time Tracker, I was hesitant to buy it thinking it would break right out of the box. Not true at all. In fact, while it is not the most quality product I've ever purchased for my 2 1/2 year old son, it is definitely not the worst. It is what it is...and it does what it does...and it does both very well.I first saw the product on Nanny 911 and I did think about it again until I started having difficulty keeping my son in his time out spot without having to sit right next to him to keep him there. I combined the Time Tracker with the Take Out Time Out mat (overpriced, but cute) and now I hardly have any problems with him finishing his time outs. He thinks time outs are interesting now and he cannot wait to finish and hear the "Time's Up!" announcement so he can play again, while knowing that we are happy with him for doing his duty.While the Time Tracker may not be the easiest thing to program, as others have said, once you do it once it's pretty easy. I have gotten so used to it that I can change the timer from time out, to nap time, to overnight sleep time in less than a minute. I set it to all green on "manual setting" and only make it turn yellow for the last 50 seconds, and red the last 10 seconds. Seriously, those reviewers who say it's difficult are simply techno-phobic or lazy. It's not hard and all...and my son loves knowing that there is a set time on all of his duties. Hearing "Time's Up!" is one of his favorite things now.Finally, again on quality, this is not a toy. Do not let your kids play with it or it will cease to work. Let them see it, touch it, but only once. Tell them it is not a toy and keep it out of reach. It will break if dropped, so my solution is to not drop it. Problem solved.Get this product. It's pretty darn cool...

Bought this for niece who has autism. This timer has helped her learn that she needs to finish a task and help with waiting. The colors are bright and the sound is loud enough to hear across the room. Came with instructions and easy to read and set up. Good for kids and those who are on the spectrum. I can see teachers use this to help students as well. Can be good for adults who don't want to rely on phones or tablets.

I just ordered our seventh Time Tracker - we station one in several rooms of the house, so we have 4 or 5 available at all times. We've used them for several years with our children who have ADHD, but I found it is even helpful for me as well as our children who do not have ADHD. We use them to prevent dawdling in the bathroom (with 4 teens - 3 are girls - this is a MUST!), to encourage finishing chores and schoolwork without me having to nag, to keep time from slipping away at breakfast & lunch, and it is perfect to use with housekeeping management systems that use 15min increments to perform the small tasks most people avoid, like cleaning out the junk drawer. My children have all responded well to the timer, especially when it is paired with a reward (for example: "Finish folding the towels and washcloths before the timer is done and you may earn TV/computer/texting time." For schoolwork, I break the tasks down into 15min increments. For example, my child might have to write 10 definitions & show them to me before the timer announces, "Times up!" We started using Time Trackers when my children ranged between 3 & 10 years old.Since setting the timer is a bit complicated, I set it for 15 min on AUTO & 30 min on MANUAL and I never, ever reset the times. Almost everything we do can be broken down into one of those time frames. I try to make sure to change the batteries before they completely die so I don't have to go through resetting it. I write the manual settings in the owner's manual, and all our timers are set up exactly the same.A couple of the timers have not worked & I had to get replacements, but it was fast & easy through Amazon. The replacements worked well. Thankfully, we use them so often that it was quickly apparent that they were defective. If it was easier to set and more reliable, it would get 5 stars!

We have a child with special needs, so we live off of timers and warnings (especially visual) around our house. This one has been amazing because it can go up to 24 hours. We use it to help show him when it's time to get dressed and go swimming some evenings, when it's okay to knock on our door to play in the mornings, and all sorts of other things. The "yellow" function is wonderful -- we can adjust it to as many minutes as we want, so we usually use it as our "getting ready" time when leaving for somewhere (i.e. at yellow, he can get in the car and wait, or change into swim suit, or bathroom time before riding bikes, etc.) My ONLY complaint is that "red" is the end of the timer instead of "green," as we tend to use it more for "it's time to do xyz now!" But he gets the idea. It's been thrown and hasn't broken! :) Also, read the instructions carefully. It's not intuitive (which is nice because he can't easily change it...) but we figured it out pretty quickly.

Perfect for classroom presentations!