How do you approach the stupidity that is Daylights Savings Time?

[robaya]

Fall Back helped us get her in bed at our ideal time of 7:30. Last Spring Forward she was 3 months old and going to bed way too late still anyway. At 15 months old, there is no rationalizing or explaining.

What are you doing?

I figure we’ll start her in the middle at 8 (current bedtime is 7:30) and then slowly adjust her back to 7:30 throughout the next 1-2 weeks.

Thoughts?

 

[hnhemwa]

@robaya Cry. They’ll cry, I’ll cry, tears all around.

 

[romantic2013]

@hnhemwa This is probably the most accurate explanation ever

 

[maurits]

@hnhemwa And question why we still do daylight savings in between sobs

 

[mlp]

@hnhemwa Came here to say the same thing. Everyone shall cry and then we will move on lol

 

[aliandry]

@robaya We just wing it. It's never been an issue. I run the kids around a bunch the day of so they're tired enough for bedtime.

 

[memneso]

@aliandry Yup, I never preplan for it because that has potential to be stressful and not work. Much rather wing it and see what happens. My 3 year old has dealt ok with it on the majority of occasions, only I think twice have we had to gradiate bedtimes after the fact because she didn't cope.

 

[molinist]

@memneso We wing it too. Bedtime is a crapshoot every night; what’s one more variable

 

[olderisgood62]

@molinist Yikes this is me too! Full chaos mode

 

[schmuelsons]

@aliandry Literally my approach. It helps because I completely forgot it was Daylight Savings until about an hour ago anyways.

 

[slysly]

@schmuelsons I thought it was like two weeks from now until the moment I read this post hah

 

[ywamskien]

@slysly Same LOL. Reading this post I thought OP was looking into the future, I didn’t realize it already occurred. Me typing this at 7am…

 

[john_177]

@aliandry Same. We also traveled a ton with him since he was born. We just deal with it.

 

[pizzacamel]

@aliandry Same here, never really noticed it impacting our toddler, just going to continuing winging it when we go back to regular time in a few weeks (southern hemisphere).

 

[robaya]

@aliandry Good idea!

 

[olsoli]

@aliandry Oh wow we are not the same you and I. But maybe one day I will acquire some chill and wing it.

 

[aliandry]

@olsoli Haha I'm not really that chill, but adjusting bedtimes around daylight savings has always seemed more stressful for me than just dealing with the time change. The wing it method has gone well for the past 4 years though. Highly recommend!

 

[olsoli]

@aliandry So it actually worked fantastic for my eldest. I pretty much just ignored it because I was too tired to care what time it actually was vs what the clock said. How about my 11 month old has been an early riser since day one so I legit was excited this time. Like fine if you can’t sleep until 7 am, we will magically make 6 am, 7 am today and bam. Easy win. Why did he still wake up at 6 am?! Sleepy me was trying to explain to him it was really 5 am and why this wasn’t fair…

 

[katrina2017]

@robaya Move to Arizona lol

 

[robaya]

@katrina2017 Right?! I used to live in Hawaii. It was great never having to worry about this nonsense.