End British Summer Time and make it easier for kids to sleep in the summer

[Concernedparent1234]

I am fed up trying to put kids to bed in UK summertime. It gets dark at 10.30 and kids don't sleep when it's bright daylight outside. There is no reason for the clocks to go forward. We should stay on GMT. There is no logical reason for British Summer Time. We stick with it because our politicians can't be bothered to change it. There is currently a UK parliament petition to get rid of the clocks going forward and keep GMT all year. I have attached the link. Please sign it. Thanks
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/709861

I'm not a summer person op but this is just ridiculous 🤣

My son is autistic and doesn't sleep well. Yes the lighter nights can be a factor but to be honest he's often late to sleep and early to rise... At least in the summer we can spend evenings at the park, find a pub with a play area or bouncy castle or just go for a nice walk.

This! Thank you 😊

I'd rather keep BST all year so the evenings are lighter in the winter too. So jog on with your silly petition.

They should be tired enough to sleep, whatever the level of sunlight!

Can't we just stay on bst instead of making the early nights in winter even more miserable?

Echoing the nos. BST is wonderful, it is like an additional day of pleasure between one working day and another. Unlike winter when the weekend is the only real chance we have to get out in the daylight.

Tighten your boundaries and routine with your kids. Put measures in place to reduce the light in their rooms. They’ll sleep, plenty of other children and teens manage it. (4DC, here).

No. I won’t be signing that. I bloody LOVE BST and being able to sit out on my patio until 10:30 sipping a nice cold gin or a beer.

Your kids sleeping pattern is yours to manage. So manage it.

No way. Partly because I love my light summer emails (lived in Japan for two years and we didn’t get them and I missed them so much!) also I don’t want the dawn chorus of birds waking me up even earlier!

I’d vote the other way, bst all year round please

BST all year round please. I hate the clock change in the Autumn. I have young children and they go to sleep in the summer at 7pm. Just get blackouts and a strong bedtime routine.

Yep!

Boo hoo hoo my precious little pickles can't sleep and I'm too tight to buy blackout blinds/curtains so the entire country has to change the way things are done to suit me.

Changing the clocks just fucks about with when it's dark or light, it doesn't magic up more hours of darkness. Utterly ridiculous.

No chance! I love the summer evenings. Wish they want in later in fact. Think I’ll start a petition for us to move to Central European Time 😎

There’s been a counter-campaign running for ages to stay in BST all year. Apparently there is an economic argument in terms of productivity (rather than just the OP’s kids)

Childfree so couldn't care less about children sleeping (sorry), BUT fully support year round GMT for other reasons - principally that we have such a long period of dark mornings and lighter evenings are not much use in autumn because it's never warm enough to make use of them.

This

This is a 'You Problem'.

YABU!

No way, the long evenings are the best part of spring/summer. Blackout blinds for the DCs, job done.

No OP absolutely not.

My birthday is near the end of October and sometimes I get a 25 hour birthday, you are not taking that from me.

Yeah this. ^ You will end up with the children waking at 3am @Concernedparent1234 !!!

If anything, I would rather leave the clocks now and not put them back in October, so we don't have it dark at 3.30pm, and we have the children walking home in the daylight.

Then again, it wouldn't get light til nearly half nine in the morning! 😬 So maybe it's best to leave it as it is, Spring Forward, Fall Back!

No thanks I love the lighter nights

I'm assuming @Concernedparent1234 you're not in Scotland?! At this time of year it's properly dark for barely 3 hours 🤣. We love thelight nights but sleep does go to pot with early waking but it's amazing sitting out with a cuppa or finishing weeding at 10pm. As suggested, black out blinds will help immensely, and it's a far nicer problem to have too much daylight that the opposite, big lights on and dark at 2pm

Nope

It’s mid summer, it will still be light long after small children would be in bed.

And you’d have them waking an hour earlier.

The nights are short.

Our long light evenings are a joy.

I don't think daylight saving makes that much difference in June. I woke up because of the heat the other night. DH wasn't here and I went downstairs for a bit. It was 3:30 and the sky was getting light. It's basically not dark much at all this time of year. Blackout blinds are the answer. We have a street light that lights the corner of the lane we are on so we have always had blackout blinds in our bedroom.

This is peak MN. We all coped OP so will this generation and the next ...

Is this a joke?