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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.
I can do thateas school changes the start time. My daughter already wasn't getting up on time if allowed.
I feel like we can all trust the sun to be where it should be.
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.
To be fair her attitude could be because an ant looked at her funny 2 days ago ..
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.
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.
Yeah. But for some reason more people prefer having dinner at day time and getting up to work in the freezing night time.
There is nothing you can do - in winter there isn't enough daylight.
My almost 3 year old was miserable today. I know it’s part of it but man…what a day.
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.
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
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.
No. It's not that serious. It's one hour, oh no.
I know right. I struggle to understand how these people do anything at all if slight changes to their routine throws them off so much.
If you made a schedule for your three year old, you might wanna get checked for autism.
This is what you'd probably do if the child was autistic.
This is what you do for all children. Even if the parents don't, preschools absolutely do. All children of this age range do better with stable routines. The only difference is the severity and frequency of reactions to disruption.