What are you all doing about bedtime tonight?

[Wheredidcottoneyedjoecomefromandwheredidhego]

Just that really

What is it about then?

But it’s such good fun @Meand2Ls 😂. Who would have believed the clocks changing would be so entertaining.

I'm getting up at half term time.

"I don't know it in months" should go into Classics.

Back under that little bridge now, OP.

This has to be a wind up?

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read on MN. Thanks for the laughs OP!

Ok, let's say your kids normally go to bed at 8:30 and wake up at 6:30. On almost every night of the year (including tonight), that is 10 hours. Last night it was 11 hours (so you gained an hour). On one night in spring it's 9 hours (and you lose an hour). It's now 21:58 GMT and 21:58 in the UK.

I've never read anything so batshit in all my years on mumsnet.

Hilarious. Thanks OP. Should I go to bed now? I’m worried my behaviour may be f’d up if I stay up later as is it not technically after 11 even though the clock says 10? I just don’t know

It’s half term? Put them to bed at the normal time regardless. I’ve always done that and mine have never been affected by the change. For example I put my 4 year old to bed at 7.15 today the normal bedtime. Who cares if yesterday it was an hour later. They adjust.

Your dc won't be losing an hour of sleep each night, surely you don't really believe that they will??!!

By the middle of next week they'll be up all night! And the week after that it'll be 25-30 awake hours each day!

Are we really supposed to take this seriously 😂

@Wheredidcottoneyedjoecomefromandwheredidhego

i think you need a bit of help here. No one has removed an hour. It’s just changed.

Lets say they usually go to bed at 8.30pm and and up at 7.30am. That’s 11 hours of sleep.

When the clocks go back, you just try and keep them up until the new 8.30pm, and then you wake them up at 7.30am like usual. They have still been in bed for 11 hours, it’s just moved that it was an hour later than normal because of the clock change, as the new 8.30pm was previously 9.30pm, so you are keeping them up later but in the morning, they will sleep until the new 7.30am so they still get 11 hours.

If you can’t keep your kid away for the extra hour then put them to bed at 8pm, but still wake them at the usual 7.30am. They’ll get 11.5 hours in bed, but who cares? But the following night, it’ll be easier.

You seem to think they are going to lose an hour of sleep, but they’re not. Unless you decide to start waking them an hour earlier than normal.

Just go by the time on the clock. Bed at 8.30pm, up at 7.30am - still getting the same number of hours in bed as they always got.

(I just made up the 7.30am wake up - go by whatever time you usually wake them up, and they will then have the same number of hours in bed as they have always had)

It’s not half term where I am. You know the UK has other countries in it than England, right?

I am sorry, but, this is a complete wind up. No one can be that dense to think their kids are going to miss an hour every day because the clocks went back and hour last night. Which incidentally, meant we all actually gained an hour. The time is the time on the clock. Nothing more, nothing less. End of!

We spent last week nudging DD's bedtime later so tonight she was in bed for her "normal" time and we're all set. We were lucky to be off for half term so her sleeping in a bit later in the morning didn't matter.

The change in behaviour. The change in clocks and the change in behaviour

Why would it be 1 hour per night?
They still get the same amount of sleep - are you able to explain what you mean?

Because they lost the hour with the clock change

I didn't think to pre plan anything Squigglepigs
Did it work?

No, they did not lose an hour.
The change from BST to GMT means an extra hour in bed last night

So why are we so tired

Just when you thought mumsnet couldn’t get anymore bonkers…

You didn’t lose an hour. You gained an hour. There were 25 hours in the day today.

If you always get up at 9am, and you got up at 9am today, you would have had an extra hour of sleep. There were two instances of 1am this morning. It went 1am to 2am, then the clocks all went back to 1am again and did that hour a second time. We had an extra hour. You haven’t lost anything.

If you put your kid to bed when the clock today said 8.30pm and then you wake him up tomorrow morning at the same time you woke him up last Monday morning then he will have been in bed asleep for the same number of hours he has been in bed asleep every other night.

The country has not removed an hour from the day. The time on the clock is the time on the clock, the same as it has been every other day of your life. The number of hours between 8.30pm tonight and 7am tomorrow is the same number of hours as every other night.

Last night, there was an extra hour. Today was 25 hours long. You feel tired because we’ve shifted. Not lost. Just shifted back. Right now it is 11.30pm but you are tired because your body will think it is actually half past midnight. It doesn’t matter, you just need to get used to the slight change. You have not lost an hour. If you go to bed at the usual time and get up at the usual time, you are getting the same number of hours of sleep. Just moved back an hour.