to limit the helicopter mom stuff. However, for some reason I have let my children turn me into an alarm clock. Each one of the three has a working alarm, set every night to the correct waking time. They never seem to awaken to the beeping or buzzing or blaring rock music. I’m tired of being their backup alarms. I’m REALLY tired of dealing with grumpy teens when I go in to ACT as the backup alarm. Today I am letting them know that they need to be more self sufficient in this area. Ideas anyone?