How are you managing the clock change?

[lancslass17]

Are you sticking with what clock says or keeping them up half hour later?

How I am coping?I've just eaten three crunchies: does that count🤣🤣(we'd done it in 15 minute steps before hand, but 4 year old woke early by coincidence this morning,and the young 'un is teething her head off. So, Crunchies it is👍

I've lost all sense of what time it is now

Mine have just gone to bed (usually its about 8pm) so should be ok

I have my toddler a very short nap & I planned us a day out at country park walking miles today. Both DDs were fast asleep at 7pm new time 🙌🏼😂 Tomorrow will probably be a whole other story 🙈

DD is 2 and usually wakes at 5.45.

Today I was looking forward to a lie in on paper at least…. But no, she was up at 5.45 by the new time.

There are no clocks in her room, she has no reason to know. She’s just determined to be a crack of dawn toddler.

It’s a good job I love her, sometimes!

DS4 usually asleep by 7 so we just adjusted and he went down at 8, tomorrow hopefully 7:45 and so on. Baby decided to go down at 7pm new time - feared he was having a nap but he has actually stayed down!

DS (2) has a Pavlovian reaction to the CBeebies closedown story & song, & took himself to bed when it finished. Barely wanted a cuddle. If he wakes in the early hours I will be unhappy but aware I may have brought it on myself…

Bed ended up almost an hr later here, will go for normal tomorrow once in nursery and school. That is such a shiter, MartinMartin! We had great success correcting an early waker one yr by just shifting bedtime an hr later and keeping the wake time an hr later when clocks changed.

I have never really done anything different with my 4dc. Dc4 is 2.5 and gone to bed as normal at 7.30pm. Other kids all as normal too. My dogs on the other hand are a pain with any clock change .

Handily my twins are at the annoying shall we/shan't we drop the nap stage - you know, where they won't go to bed if they do nap, and turn into the spawn of Satan by 4pm if they don't but then they go to sleep in seconds at bedtime. So I went with the spawn of Satan option today (a delight, since I was solo parenting) and they were fast asleep by 7.20. Then I guilt-tripped their dad into getting me Chinese takeaway to help me recover. A win, all in all.

“Luckily” 20mo DD had a horrendous nap today, so we had a hideous afternoon but she went down to sleep willingly at usual time (7.30). Who knows what tonight will bring though…

Mother’s Day and the clock change falling on the same day is a joke, if I wasn’t pregnant there would be

DD1 usually rises 5.45 on the dot, regardless of bedtime/clock change/location etc, so we’ve just put her down at the ‘new’ normal time. After three years of experience we have learnt that she will magically reconfigure herself to the new time and continue to wake at 5.45 on the dot. It’s spooky how she does this.

DD2 is almost 8mo and hates staying asleep anyway, so she’s a hopeless case.

Can’t wait till they’re teenagers and I get to wake them up early for shits and giggles.

The change is bringing my toddler’s body clock more in line with the rest of society so I’m just enjoying it.

We've never done anything differently, just used the time in the clock. We are always happy to keep dc up later for events when needed.

My two go to bed at 830 normally which is late enough but managed to get them asleep by 9 so was happy with that. Now just have to get them up in the morning, will be setting an alarm for the first time in a long time!

We just changed the clocks and got on with it, our little one didn't seem to notice!

DH and I couldn’t believe it when we thought they’d both slept until 7.45 this morning! We had forgotten the clock change but they’re usually up at 6ish so still a win I think. DD (17mo) still on 2 naps but we put her down to one nap today as she was up late and she was asleep by 7 but DS (3) was awake until about 8 I think playing with his toys in his cot. They share a room so DD must have been tired to sleep through his noise. Tomorrow will be a whole new story I’m sure.

We simply don't notice it in our house. Adjust the clocks, carry on as normal.

Omg I didn’t even know the clocks changed!!!

Just change the clock and then do our normal routines and pretend it hasn't happened. When DD was a baby we fretted and messed about with timings thinking it would be a big deal but it really wasn't, we found quickly that if we just went about our business as normal she fell into the normal pattern.

I don't have any young children to worry about. Me, I'm going to bed even earlier than usual when I suppose I should be going later. Dunno.

@Watapalava

Omg I didn’t even know the clocks changed!!!

Brilliant.