Thinking ahead to Daylight Savings Time...

crystina06

When we have to set our clocks back an hour this fall, my girls will be off schedule. They already have an early bedtime/wake-up time (6:00 pm - 6:00 am), so when DST ends, they'll be wanting to go to bed at 5:00 and wake up at 5:00. How do I manage this so they keep their same bedtime?

ams8099

Oh, good question. Maybe slowly adjust their bedtime in the week before. So bump it up by 15 mins at a time until they are doing 7-7 and then when the clocks change they will be back at 6-6?

ougrad1

Start pushing them back slowly.  Like pp said, start putting them down at 6:15 and work toward seven.

When does the time change? 

E&RMommy

It's in November right?

Our plan is to start a week or two ahead of it and try to push back bedtime by 15 minutes every few nights.

We hope it doesn't kill us!

UsedToBeGoldie

some people get all into moving things by 15 minutes in the week before.... We have never done that- and in 4.5 years, it's never been an issue.  They might have a night or two where sleep isn't quite the same- but it always works out after that.

erinruns

We've never done anything to their schedule and they adjust in a day or two.  

amanda31H

I never did anything.  If I had to keep them up later I did, if I had to put them down earlier, I did that.  They adjusted in a couple days.

I remember it did seem overwhelming when I first thought about it - but it was no big deal.