Figured I’d toss up a quick whine thread.
Daughter skipped her nap and is peak obstinant today. Having to “trick” her into following the schedule.
“I don’t want bath! I want read book!”
We’ll read some books in bed after your bath sweetie.
“Noooooooo!”
Well I’m gonna get a bath, see you later.
“No! No I want baaaaath!”
Just max threenager today.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing you can do - in winter there isn’t enough daylight.
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 …
My almost 3 year old was miserable today. I know it’s part of it but man…what a day.
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.
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
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.
I’m sure your kids won’t mind arriving an hour late to school every day :D
I’d say they are old enough to handle it by then (mostly). One hour less sleep is less dramatic when they are six compared to two.
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.
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.
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 just let the kids mostly keep their old schedule until Monday morning, when everything smashes forward an hour and it is daycares problem most of the day. I, however, want to die yesterday and today.
