According to a study, a child who is sleeping soundly will react to his mother's voice rather than to the sound of a siren, an alarm, etc. According to the researchers, the alarm devices with strident sound do not work in the same way, or rather, they are not perceived in the same way by children than by adults.
A study was carried out on 24 children aged between 6 and 12 years, the purpose was to determine the reaction of children to the sound of a siren or the voice of their mother. In the experiment, the children slept peacefully and all but one woke up at the recording of their mother's voice calling them. The boy who did not react to his mother's voice did not react to the sound of the siren. Only 14 children reacted to the sound of the siren, in addition, another important fact to consider is the speed of response. Before the mother's call, the little ones took 20 seconds to react, while the siren's call took up to 180 seconds longer.
Both sounds measured the same intensity, 100 decibels. Now the question lies in the possibility that the children would react earlier because they responded to their names or perhaps because it was the voice of their mother, in any case, it is a lot Mom's voice more effective than any alarm in the world.
