Parenting

My kid is school aged and has been a real champ about following the schedule. But they have been obviously exhausted. Getting up this morning was tough I told them they should go to bed early. And they did. Just past 6pm. This kid never wants to go to bed. Real tired one right there.

My kids are a bit older now so it just means they’ll be grumpy at school tomorrow. BUT I feel your pain regardless. I always disliked DST but once I had babies, I haaaaaaaated it. Well, I still do. It is especially cruel to babies in my opinion and I want to abolish changing clocks forever.

My parents simply disregarded daylight savings. Our routines always have and always will be more in line with the sun. A clock is just there to confirm the sun's around where it should be.

Your daughter's not going to want to do the thing in the routine because you're expecting her to do them at a time of day that isn't the right time of day to do them yet. Her circadian rhythm and perception of the day gives zero fucks about the concept of DST so just remove it from her.

Fortunately, we don’t have too much trouble since we shift our child’s schedule 5-10 minutes a day in the lead up to the time change. At 4, our kid is very vocal about disliking change, but can still be coaxed into it anyway.

To be fair her attitude could be because an ant looked at her funny 2 days ago ..

I feel ya!

Where I'm from, in winter the sun sets at 6pm and it summer it sets at 9pm.

I recon they got it the wrong way round.

For us we generally get it back after the first day since they are super tired by the end of the day and it's back to normal within a day or 2 tops.

Contact your state representative. Any us state can opt out of daylight savings. They can't do year round daylight time but year round standard time is allowed. Ayone arguing for year round daylight time is in reality ensuring nothing happens.

My almost 3 year old was miserable today. I know it’s part of it but man…what a day.

This time around, my wife and I simply decided "fuck DST" and shifted our entire schedule forward an hour. No change in sleep for anyone. It was glorious.

Obviously not gonna work when the kids start school, though.

Have a two year old, we're just gonna roll with the time change. So our two year old has been going to bed around 7:30pm and wakes up around 6:30am, sometimes 7am. With the jump forward she woke up at 7:30am this morning and I plan on putting her down at 8:30pm tonight so hopefully she'll wake up at 7:30am tomorrow

I leave for work at 7am and have to get up at 6am to get ready. Some mornings I have had to wake up at 5am because she gets up at 6:30am, sees no one is with her in her room, and then cries and wakes up the whole house.

So I'm hoping the time change will work to our advantage

I'm not fighting to keep DST or anything, but I've never understood the issue. My kids had no issue switching their sleep patterns. Dunno, for a baby: morning nap 15 minutes earlier, afternoon nap 20 minutes earlier, bedtime 35 minutes earlier, done. I'm not saying people who struggle are wrong or lying, I'm saying I'm missing something. (And both my kids were bad sleepers.)

I've a four year old and a two year old, both expected at daycare tomorrow. I kind of managed by just shifting everything earlier, as they mostly recognized the sequence of events more than the absolute time... it was a little harder to get them to actually sleep, but they were in bed at the right time and putting in the effort.

It helps that my daughter is a stickler for rigid order. The boy just follows her lead. She's so rigid that she'll overcome her own desires to fulfill the series of events she expects, forgoing food, fun, whatever. It's kinda spooky, lol.

That said, fuck daylight savings time.

If you made a schedule for your three year old, you might wanna get checked for autism.

No. It's not that serious. It's one hour, oh no.