The only thing cute about this clock is Spongebob. The light works some of the time, but you have to press on the whole clock. The time speeds up so that at one point it was about 30 minutes ahead of the actual time. The alarm shuts itself off after a while. With my son, he never seems to hear the alarm going off and before you know it, it shuts itself off. I think if the alarm kept going off until someone shut it off that it would actually wake him up. Overall, the money I spent on this clock would have been better spent on gum.