Hmmm a hungry child ? espically of the infant stages ?
But I’m the type that if i’m not kept awake after I wake up I’ll go back to sleep
Go to a local truck stop and pick up a Screaming Meanie. They have one now that has a clock, the one I have is just a count down timer. The alram is a beep at 120dB. If you can sleep through it then more power to ya cause I can’t, even with ear plugs in.
Swedish inventor Gustaf Dalén, the man behind, among other things, the AGA beacon, had the same problem as a teenager, so, according to the AGA company homepage he “… invented a ‘bed roller’ which both made the coffee and switched on the light. This invention attracted attention throughout the district.”
I second the small screaming child method. I’ve never been able to get out of bed on time, but now I don’t think twice about doing it 3 times a night!
Letting him miss a few important appointments or losing his job as the result of his being tardy will probably take care of the situation. The school of hard knocks teaches wonderful lessons.
My SO has a great little trick she does with her tongue that is guaranteed to wake me up from a dead sleep every time, but I’m afrad she’s not available.
A naked woman rubbing her breasts in my face would do it for me, I think. But I haven’t been able to persuade Pepper Mill to try this. The best I get from her is a punch in the back.
When I was a kid, my mother used to drop my cat on my face. He wasn’t declawed, and he weighed about 15 pounds. It worked pretty well.
Electric tongs to the you know what. I would imagine that would suffice.
The sun.
- Fill a pickle (or paint) bucket about 1/2 full of ice. Then fill the bucket with water to within a few inches of the rim. Let this sit for about 5 minutes then stir a bit to make sure it is nice and cold. Apply in one swift motion emptying entire contents on or about the sleeper’ body. 2) Another good way shave the hair off the person’s legs with a gas powered string trimmer.
Method #1 took a few attempts before sleeper became conditioned. #2 only took one try!
One of those Big Ben alarm clocks-- under the pillow.
I literally FLY out of bed when that stupid thing starts clanging and clanking.
When I have my clock radio set to go off, no matter WHAT music is playing at WHAT level of noise, I fall back asleep. The only thing that works is the Big Ben.
Of course, when the clock goes off, the cats freak and jump on the pillow (and me noggin) howling up a storm…that may have a bit to do with it.
If you’ve got a second phone line, this works wonders.
Go to Radio Shack and get yourself one of those loud ass phone ringers, it’s a simple bell that rings when dialed - set it to LOUD.
Get some fax software for your PC. I use RapidComm.
Put the bell in your room hooked up to the second phone line. And then schedule a fax for the time you’d like to wake up and dial out on the first line. You can schedule as many faxes as you want.
To stop it from ringing, just cancel the faxes.
Not only is it loud and annoying, you have to turn on your monitor to cancel the faxes, this involves thinking and gets you alert and awake.
Why has no-one ever built George Jetsons bed? Jane hit the switch and pop-up toaster bed.
I want one.
How big is this kids bladder any way?
You could have it release a Bris knife that plummets toward his crotch.
I did this a couple of times in college when I absolutely could not miss something early in the morning. I flipped the alarm switch from “buzzer” to “radio,” tuned to pure static, and turned the volume way up. When it went off, the buzzsaw grind instantly made me almost stand up in bed, heart pounding, adrenaline flowing.
Not recommended if you aren’t single. 
For 10 years I’ve relied on two 80-pound Greyhounds that have to pee. Trust me, when 160 pounds of bursting dog hits the bed you get up.
I don’t sleep through alarm clocks, I go to wherever they are (I’ve put them in other rooms so I have to get up to get to them) and I unplug them. Then I go back to sleep.
I’ve found that even having someone pour water on my head doesn’t work. If it’s not too much (less than a cup) I just dry off my face with a nearby piece of clothing then back to sleep for me.
Or if it’s more I get up, get a towel, then dry off, then off to bed again.
So the only way to keep me up if I’m persistant (as I usually am), is to tell someone the night before that they can pour about half a can of soda on me. I’m serious, then I gotta take a shower which wakes me up.
Only thing that works when I’m persistant to sleeping.