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Best toddler sleep training clocks to ensure everyone gets a restful night’s sleep

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Parents of small babies, I’ve got some bad news for you.

While you may think getting them to sleep through the night means the end to all your sleep woes, unfortunately, that’s rarely the case. As soon as your little ones enter toddlerhood a whole new set of sleeping problems arises, which usually revolve around bedtimes taking hours on end and becoming a massive chore, and wake-ups becoming hideously early. So how do you get your toddler to go to bed at a reasonable hour, and learn that a daily 5am wakeup call is not acceptable?

Naturally, every child is different and there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, but parents have long sworn by sleep training clocks to help teach their toddlers how to understand when it’s the right time to go to sleep and the right time to wake up.

These clever devices come in a range of different guises, from simple clocks that change colour to let little ones know whether it’s nighttime or morning, to multi-use pieces of tech that act as a sleep training clock, white noise machine and nightlight all in one.

So, how do you choose the right sleep training clock for your toddler?

First, decide how much you want to spend

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