HaLeivi – you are EXACTLY right. Which is why I am stuck. NONE of theses things work but I don’t want to do anything harsher. They are not ignoring me, they don’t even know why it doesn’t work and sometimes they will come to me in the morning and ask me why I didn’t wake them. And for the record, the alarm clock we use is called Sonic Boom. Google it if you never heard of it. It wakes the neighbors but everyone in the room still sleeps.
This is especially hard for me because I never believed in waking up anyone, not even my infants and babies.