TIME TIMERDigital Timer, Lake Day Blue

I know these timers are marketed a lot towards kids but honestly if it helps, who cares? After being diagnosed with ADHD in my 30s, this timer has helped me curb the amount of time I lose doing different tasks due to time blindness that comes with ADHD. I am still struggling to get an accurate feel for the correct amount of time passage, which I have considered may never happen for me but I am still gunna try! However, as long as I keep this timer within eye sight and easily accessible, I am drawn to use it. It helps me see how long tasks actually take me so that I can plan ahead better and when I finish something early I can visually see the difference! My whole life I have always felt behind and rushing to catch up and this has helped curbed some of that. The main issue for ADHDers is that you actually have to regularly use it for it to make a difference. ;)

The amount of screen time my 6yo was using was getting out of hand. Enter this nifty thing. Every day weekday my son knows he can set it to 60 minutes, and he can use that screen time for whatever he wants - YouTube Kids, TV, movies, or video games. When he wants to take a break and do something else, he presses pause. That play/pause button lets him spread out his time throughout the day. He doesn’t love it, but we sure do!

I am a teacher and have used the original TimeTimer before. I love how the original is bright and you can clearly see how much time is left. I wanted a digital timer that you could see a countdown and bars to see different ways how time disappears. However, the display is quite faint and I have had a few of my students already complain that it is too light for them to see. Especially, if the timer is lying on its back and not magnetized to the wall. I did drop 1 star due to this fact and will, unfortunately, be returning mine since the students I work with are unable to use this version.Hopefully, they will update this version with an on/off switch and make it brighter or an option to control the brightness. Wishful thinking.

Bought it earlier this year and initially was great but over time is does not spin accurately. Whichever direction I spin it the timer goes up. It should go down one of the directions but I don’t even remember which way it should be now. Hopefully it’s just a fluke since I bought it for the good reviews but it’s pretty well unusable now.

Never worked for me. Tried a couple different brand new batteries, but that wasn't the issue. No numbers, just jumbled lines & inconsistent lines around the edge for the countdown.