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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/LutzExpertTera on 2025-03-25 19:28:50+00:00.

My wife and I have a son who is 2, turning 3 in a few weeks. He’s an amazing kid and is already proving to be incredibly clever. He started skipping his nap a few months ago, so recently we introduced quiet time into his daily routine. We put some toys, puzzles, Tonie box, food, water, and a small potty in his room and have him play by himself for 30 minutes every afternoon. Some days he loves it and is fully engrossed, while other days he wants out and to come play with us.

The nightlight we use is called a Hatch. It serves as a clock, sound machine, and nightlight and is generally quite useful. My wife can change the color of the light on her phone and was experimenting with different colors during quiet time. She had the idea to keep the light red during quiet time and then change to green once the 30 minutes was up.

So we put him in for quiet time and say “you can come out when the light is green.” He says okay, does a puzzle for a few minutes, and then through our monitor we saw him touching the Hatch. Then about 5 minutes into quiet time, he happily walks out of his room. My wife asks “buddy, was the light green yet?” and he gleefully says “yes!” He found a button on the back of it (that I honestly didn’t even know was there) that manually changes the color of the light so he cycled through all of the colors until he got to green.

So, the light turned green and the little fella figured out how to make quiet time only 5 minutes that day.