Testimonials

I bought this product because my 27 month old daughter was climbing out of her bed consistently between 2-3 am. I would hear her door open and before I could even put my feet on the floor, she was at the side of my bed. At first I tried walking her back into her room, telling her that it was still night time and she had to go back to sleep. This sort of worked but then I usually ended up falling asleep in her bed and then waking up again only to stagger back to my own bed. It was becoming a pattern that I wanted to stop and so after several weeks of interrupted sleep, I went searching for a better solution. I found the Sleep Buddy, read some of the reviews which all seemed very positive and thought it was worth a try. When the package first arrived, she was very excited because it was a surprise wrapped up just for her. She loved the idea of the Sleep Buddy and was very excited about setting it up in her room. I can't say that it worked right away though. For a few weeks, she still showed up by my bedside in the middle of the night but at least with the Sleep Buddy we could go back to her room and I could point out that the light was still on and she needed to stay in bed. It's the same message I tried to relate all those nights prior but for some reason seeing the light really seemed to register with her. It took about a month before the idea totally sunk in and I could see a difference in her sleeping pattern. I also tried to make a really made a big deal about the light EVERY night to get her used to it and I think that really helped. It's definitely not an overnight fix but if you are patient, it will work. Oh and we use it for naps too and it works great!

We absolutely cannot live (or sleep) without the Sleepbuddy! I'm not sure how or why it works so well, but it is truly AMAZING! It's an instant cue for my kids to get in bed, stay in bed, and go to sleep! I'm writing this review because we used the SleepBuddy for a long time and it worked great. It wasn't until we put it away for a couple weeks (thinking they didn't need it anymore) that we realized that the SleepBuddy truly was the key and tool to having great sleepers! Literally, the morning after we put our SleepBuddy away the kids were in our room at 6:30am on the dot. This was not a typical routine with the SleepBuddy set. We would have nice, long, quiet mornings without a peep in the house! For a week or two we didn't even make the connection that the early waking was directly related to the SleepBuddy being put away. Then it dawned on me that it was probably the absent SleepBuddy. That very night we got the SleepBuddy back out, we set it up before bed, read the book, and all three kids were quiet in their rooms until 8am! I promise I'm not exaggerating! Two week without the SleepBuddy and they were up at the crack of dawn. The first night back and we got a couple more hours of sleep:) That was definitely a happy realization in our house. Yet another perfect example of how awesome the SleepBuddy System is and proof that it actually works! We will no longer sleep without the SleepBuddy. I'm convinced my kids can use it until they go to college and I wouldn't even care! Like I said, an AMAZING product. I recommend it to everyone I know. Thank you SleepBuddy!
 

I got Sleep Buddy recently for a 2 year old that is about to move to a big girl bed. I had heard wonderful successes from friends and so I thought would give it a try. My six year old also had a sleep issue where he would wake up scared and come and sleep in our bed on most nights. Well as most mothers know, nobody sleeps well in a bed that has a squirmy child in the middle of it. I decided to try using the sleep buddy with my six year old. We read the book together but since it was meant for younger kids, we had a big discussion about it too. I explained to him that when the light was on, it was still night time and that the light was there to remind him that Mommy and Daddy love him and are praying for him to sleep well. The light also reminds you that we are protecting you and are just right down the hall in our room.

It worked wonders the first night. Our son came out the next morning and told us right away that "he woke while it was still dark but that the light reminded him that he was loved and prayed for". It continued to work and now that his body has gotten out of the pattern of waking at night, he doesn't wake at all anymore.

Our 2 year old is also asking for her night-night light now too. She has watched her big brother use it and is really excited to have one too.

I have a 22 month old who has had trouble sleeping through the night for his whole life. I was desperate to try something new, as nothing I'd done so far had worked. So I got this cute little night light (we thought he might be afraid of the dark) and crossed my fingers that it would help. Well, he's pretty young and the concept of staying in bed until the light turned off was tricky for him. I thought maybe he was way too young, But my husband and I kept pointing out the light and reminding him that he should stay in bed if the light is on, but as soon as it turns off, he is free to come into our room. It's been about a month now, and I am thrilled to say that for the past three nights, my little ball of energy has slept through the night! Yay! It was certainly not an overnight fix. But we stuck with it and now it seems to be working. I am so happy and excited to be getting a full night's sleep again. And my son is so happy and energetic all day long. Thank you!

Finally! My son is sleeping past 6am! He's a high needs child (a nice way of saying he's stubborn and doesn't want to miss anything), so sleeping for our family has always been a huge struggle. He started waking up before 5am ready to start his day. It was exhausting because before that regression he regularly woke at 5:30, which was bad enough, but 5 was just terrible for my husband and I. Desperate for sleep, I ordered the SleepBuddy, skeptical it would work for my high needs kid, but willing to try anything. I loved how it came wrapped as a present and with a storybook. He LOVED opening it. My son wanted me to read him the book three times the first night we tried it, and we were reading it multiples times before bed every night for a while at his request. Unfortunately, we received it two days before going out of town, and being in a strange place was too much for him to try to understand the SleepBuddy. It took a while just to get back to what it was before we left. I would say after a month or more, he finally got it. Now he says, 'SleepBuddy bluuuuuue' before bed. I can't say that every night he sleeps perfectly, BUT if he wakes up at 5 I go in there and tell him his SleepBuddy is still blue and he goes back to bed sometimes not waking up until 7 even though it's set for 6. For my son's temperament, I would say that is hugely successful and borderline miracle. I should mention we started it just before he turned 2. Most nights he sleeps through the night just fine and wakes up after it turns off. I didn't intend to use it for naps because that's a whole other struggle since day one, but he does follow it for naps, which used to be an hour and now stretched to more. I know 6am is still early for most families, but let me tell you, the extra 30 minutes makes all the difference for us.

Love this sleep aid!!! We actually take our son to a behavioral psychologist due to his expressive speech delay, when I mentioned to the Dr that our son was suddenly waking up too early and getting out of bed, he suggested we use a colored light set to a timer to let our son know it was ok to get up...spent some time online and found the Sleep Buddy, free shipping included thanks to Amazon and the Sleep Buddy folks sent it out the same evening I ordered it and we received it 2 days later!! It's working great, only took a few days for our son to get the hang of it. It's working so well that even though I originally didn't use it at nap (we weren't having any problems with nap)but my son got used to looking for the light and wouldn't come out of his room when he woke up from nap!

We have had this product for a while now, and it's been great both at night and for naps, but as my daughter (3.5) has gotten older, it's really been a gem for her 'room time'. Every day from 2-3:30 our house has room time (or nap time for the little ones), where the kids have to stay in one place and either sleep, read, or play quietly. For my 3 year old, who cannot tell time, it was hard for her to know when it was over, and she would come down over and over again asking when it was done. When I finally reminded her about her SleepBuddy, she stopped coming downstairs every few minutes, and instead proudly comes down at 3:30 declaring that 'my sleepy buddy is off!' A great sanity saver for me!

I own 2 SleepBuddys! My 4 year old has been using his SleepBuddy for months now. He is an early riser (6-6:30), so the SleepBuddy keeps him playing quietly in his room until his light goes off at 7:30. When his light goes off, he does his chores and comes up for breakfast.

My 22 month old has always been a HORRIBLE night sleeper. He was waking in the night at least once or twice a week. He would cry when we put him to bed. If we traveled, we could not have him in the same room with us or he would wake and scream until we put him in our bed. We were about to go to the beach for 2 weeks and I knew he was at least going to be in a closet in our room, but there was a chance he would be in our room. I ordered my 2nd SB the week before our beach trip. By the beach (6 days after purchase), he was going down for his nap and for bed without crying. Only once in a blue moon does he wake in the night. We show him his SB and remind him to stay quiet until it goes off. He is fully aware of his light and will say "off" and point to it. I was a skeptic for a while, which is why we didn't order it sooner. BUT I was so wrong! My 22 month old is/was fully capable of the understanding the concept! There is something about the blue light that works wonders! We are expecting our 4th child in the fall. We will put our boys together and I will use the SB as a nightlight with the baby. I will also introduce the SB a LOT sooner with the 4th.

I love having the built in timers for both naps and nighttime. Shipping is super fast! AND... it come wrapped for the child so it's like they receive a gift :)

My son is almost two, and I was struggling with keeping him in his bed at nap time. He normally takes a 3 hour nap. I was frustrated b/c he wasn't getting the rest he needed, and I wasn't getting a break in the day. I tried the sleep buddy and so far we've had success with keeping him in his bed at nap time AND in the mornings until I'm ready for him to come out of his room. If you follow the SleepBuddy guidelines, it will work for you!

This product is amazing. I started using it with my youngest son when he was a little over 2 and still in his crib. We received the product packaged in beautiful wrapping paper, which made it all the more special for my son. It took only one weekend for him to understand that he should wait to call for me in the morning until his SleepBuddy Light went off. The transition to the big boy bed was so much easier than it was for his two older brothers, because my youngest already was familiar with waiting for his light to turn off before he got out of bed. At nighttime, he would run into his room, check to make sure that his SleepBuddy light was on, and then call me and tell me it was time for him to go to bed! Now at over three years old, he still loves and cherishes his SleepBuddy light, asking for it even at nap time. Because our daily schedule is always changing, I often have to adjust the timer on the light, and even this process is incredibly easy. Not only would I recommend this product for your own children, but I would also recommend buying it as a unique baby shower or birthday gift. Thanks SleepBuddy!

My twins just turned two a few weeks ago. They slept really well up until about 20 months, then they started occasionally waking up and crying until someone laid them back down. Then at about 22 months it became almost a nightly event with my daughter waking up between 11pm and 1am and then my son waking up between 4am and 5am (I counted about 8 days in that 2.5 month period where one of them didn't get up). We've been using the SleepBuddy for almost 2 weeks and we haven't had to get up with them yet...I yelled down the hall one night and told my daughter to check her SleepBuddy, she stopped crying, laid down, and went back to sleep. We'll be transitioning the twins to toddler beds soon, so I'm curious how we'll do then.

Aunt Melody gifted us a SleepBuddy and we LOVE it! Our 2 year old runs to his room to see if his buddy has turned on. Then he exclaims "it's night night time". We have told him that his SleepBuddy is there to watch out for him while he sleeps. SleepBuddy glows when he should be in bed to make sure he is safe. When SleepBuddy turns off its time to get up! Our little guy is not allowed to get out of bed without us coming to get him but he calls us in his monitor when his SleepBuddy turns off. It is a hit in our house!

After a month of struggling to get my 2 year old to stay in her big girl bed (she randomly started waking up in the middle of the night, finding herself in our bedroom --conveniently at the same time as we were bringing home a newborn). The SleepBuddy has been a life-saver for our little family! Its been a tear-free, struggle-free incentive to get her to stay in the bed all night long. She even kisses her sleep buddy goodnight! =) We are one sticker away from a trip to target for a special treat. Thanks!!

I just started using SleepBuddy with my toddler, she's still in her crib but has been struggling to stay quiet and content if she wakes up early, especially from naps. After 3 days with the SleepBuddy, I've already seen an improvement. She fell asleep in the car on the way home just today, (we all know what happens to naps when that happens!) and after putting her in the crib, instead of standing and screaming for me because she didn't want to nap, she laid contentedly in her crib until the SleepBuddy turned off, then stood up and called for me....AMAZING!

I was so excited to learn that my SleepBuddy was shipping the same day that I ordered it! We received it last Thursday and have been so pleased with it! My 2 year old was very excited that he got a gift in the mail and he loves to read the story over and over again. The way you package SleepBuddy and include the little story book is fantastic. You really put a lot of thought into how to best help parents in their quest for establishing a good sleep routine. Before ordering SleepBuddy, my 2 boys, ages 2 and 8 months were already great sleepers. But, they share a bedroom and I am thinking that sometime soon, my 2 year old will be transitioning from his crib to a bed so I thought this would be very helpful. It is also my hope that he will explain SleepBuddy to my younger son as time goes on! Night one of using SleepBuddy was very exciting in our house. We read the story, my son kissed SleepBuddy goodnight and he went right to sleep. In the morning when I went to get him he said, "No Mommy, not want to get up, want to read stories and go to sleep"! I can't thank you enough for this product. I will keep you updated on how things go when we move from the crib to a bed. I will recommend this product to all of my friends!

Thursday night Callie came into our room four times in the night with every excuse in the book why she can't sleep in her room and needs to sleep with Mommy and Daddy. When our SleepBuddy arrived I had her open it like a gift and she was so excited! We read the book and I explained how sleep buddy worked and what her rewards would be. I'm happy to report that we didn't see her for an hour after her SleepBuddy went off the next morning! We all slept great! Night one was a huge success!! Thank you!

Since this arrived at our house about 4 weeks ago, our 2.75 year old has only woken us up when his sleep buddy light goes off (except one time when his grandparents arrived & he was so excited he couldn't wait). It has been a WONDERFUL WONDERFUL change in our life. We know that we won't be woken up before 6:30 in the morning, and that we have until 2:10 before he gets up from his nap. One key for us has been to not stretch him too far. While we'd like to sleep in until 7, we want the whole thing to be successfull, so we keep it set at 6:30. Before, he was waking up between 5:45 - 6:30, usually around 6. The light is easy to use & arrives with some things that make it easy to implement (gift wrapped for child, book to introduce, rewards chart). My son actually LOVES his SleepBuddy & is happy to see the light come on each night.