Steely Dan
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Children Sleep Right Through Fire Alarms, Study Shows
By Bonnie Rochman Friday, March 25, 2011
Recently, the super-sensitive smoke alarm near our kitchen started squalling in response to a charred bit of something overcooking in a saucepan. I cringed because my 6-year-old was asleep. A champion snoozer, she never flinched. And now, new research scarily shows she's no exception.
Being a deep sleeper is really good in terms of her getting uninterrupted z's, but it would have been really bad had the smoke alarm heralded true danger. It's not the first time I've wondered whether smoke alarms even do any good when it comes to rousing children. Now an Australian study's got my answer, and it's a definitive no....
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/25/children-sleep-through-fire-alarms-study-shows/#ixzz1HdnetLzU
IIRC, The show American Inventor addressed this. One of the inventions was a smoke alarm that was recordable. I think the guy said that studies showed kids responded to their mothers voice better and so he invented a recordable smoke detector that mothers could use to record a wake up message. I know he didn't win the competition but it may have been picked up and put on the market, I don't know.
By Bonnie Rochman Friday, March 25, 2011
Recently, the super-sensitive smoke alarm near our kitchen started squalling in response to a charred bit of something overcooking in a saucepan. I cringed because my 6-year-old was asleep. A champion snoozer, she never flinched. And now, new research scarily shows she's no exception.
Being a deep sleeper is really good in terms of her getting uninterrupted z's, but it would have been really bad had the smoke alarm heralded true danger. It's not the first time I've wondered whether smoke alarms even do any good when it comes to rousing children. Now an Australian study's got my answer, and it's a definitive no....
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/25/children-sleep-through-fire-alarms-study-shows/#ixzz1HdnetLzU
IIRC, The show American Inventor addressed this. One of the inventions was a smoke alarm that was recordable. I think the guy said that studies showed kids responded to their mothers voice better and so he invented a recordable smoke detector that mothers could use to record a wake up message. I know he didn't win the competition but it may have been picked up and put on the market, I don't know.
