TM022

This timer works very well. Extremely easy to operate. A child could set it easily! Has magnetic strips on the back so it is attached to my refrigerator. Handy for kitchen use and doesn't get misplaced. Highly recommend this 60 minute timer.

I teach in a very rowdy urban district with armed security guards and rambunctious teenagers, and not a single student complained when I started using this to time activities last week. In fact, I think they really appreciate having a sense of how long they have to complete DO NOW activities before I move on to something else, or how long they have to wait before they can start asking to use the bathroom pass at the beginning of a class period. The visual information and objectivity of a clock seem to be all they needed. Not one single groan in any of my classes--and believe me, they find ways to complain about just about anything. As a teacher with ADHD, I also find this helps keep ME on track, because I have a very poor internal sense of time. So at the end of the day, when I'm doing work in my classroom, I use this timer for myself, so that I finish up and get out of the building in time to make sure I can meet my son when he gets off the school bus back at home. It was a seriously frantic race before this!

Love it! It works exactly as I hoped

I got the blue color one because red seemed like it should be for emergency or something negative, and I'm trying to cultivate a positive of time so figured any little bit helps. The clock is pretty big and has a little stand so I just have it on my desk next to the monitor and it's very visble and easy to set/reset (big analog/physical turning knob in the middle). Great timer. I do wish they would have a mode to just beep once instead of six times though. Six beeps? I mean, it's not too bad and you do want to be alerted ... but this is not good for night time - just a single subtle beep would have been awesome. Crossed my mind to take it apart, or make that a electronics project... hm, anyway as far as these things go this is a great timer.

Use it at the women’s shelter to time their use of showers. So easy to use and can be seen across the room without glasses.

It worked at the beginning of the year, but then it stopped working. I've changed batteries and done all of the troubleshooting listed. I give up. It's going in the trash.

The other reviews that say the clock is finicky and shouldn’t be played with, are exactly true. You have to turn the dial all the way around the clock, and then set the duration you want. Well naturally it’s impossible to keep it visible to the kids but their hands off it, 100% of the time. So since they’ve been turning the dial on their own, it doesn’t really work anymore. It often just sits and doesn’t count down. Otherwise, my son loved it. He always used to scream and throw tantrums and be so upset when it was time to change activities and go do something, if it wasn’t something that interested him i.e. bath time, bed time, dinner time, etc.. With the timer, where he could visually see how much time was left, changing activities really wasn’t an issue anymore. I’d be clear about the time left, I’d set the clock, I’d tell him when it ran out & the blue was all gone (we got the circle one with the blue timer), it was time to do ____ (insert activity here). He’d nod and say “okay,” and then sure enough when the timer went off, he’d agreeably and happily change activities. I’d even use the timer to show him how much time he had left to do something, if we were running behind. Instead of trying to explain to a 2 year old why we have 5 minutes to put on our shoes and get out the door for an appointment, I’d set the timer for 4 minutes and hype him up, saying “oh my goodness!! We have only this much time left, 4 minutes, to get our shoes on and race out the door!!” Worked like a charm nearly every time. In all: excellent for kids, even used it for myself to give me a visual on how much time I’d spent cleaning, I love the kick stand AND the magnet, but it’s finicky so don’t play with it like a toy, nor let the kids play with it like a toy.

It works well but the timer is very quiet