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Didn’t know how much more annoying day light savings could be until I had small children in the house.

You spend so much time trying to schedule bedtime for everyone’s sanity. Having an hour screw up the schedule because they aren’t tired or over sleepy is very annoying (for about a week).



Before kids, moving clocks back meant an extra hour of sleep. After kids, everyone still wakes up on time.


Taper bedtimes 10 minutes at a time over a week!


Parent of small children, you can certainly try that. It turns out though that small children don't care when you put them to bed they aren't going to sleep until they are tired, and they'll spend the extra time coming out of their room, screaming, fighting, or kicking their door.


While tapering bedtime is sometimes possible (not when they can read the clocks!), you can't taper when they wake up quite as easily. I would expect that this suggestion cannot be easily implemented by many families.


What I learned from my toddler is - they do what they want to do. It takes couple of weeks of consistent efforts to change his behavior. Sadly one week is not enough.




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