I've found something new to worry about - clocks change soon

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DS starts wanting bed at 5 p.m. and gets beside himelf with tiredness by about 5:30, however many naps he's had during the day (even if he has one around 5p.m.!). He's like me, he just wants to go to bed as early as possible.

So, when the clocks go back in a couple of weeks, what can I do to stop him wanting to go to bed at 4:30?

I've tried putting his bedtime later and later - but it just means screaming and screaming, and usually bath and bed time is really good fun time.

I know I'm lucky to have such a sleepy baby, but 4:30, I ask you! (and I'm not even contemplating what will happen in the mornings!)

I think it's two weeks until the clocks change (or is it three??) so you have a little time to play with. You could move his bedtime forward just ten or fifteen minutes, stick with the new time for two or three days, then move another ten or fifteen mins etc so that after two weeks he should be going to bed at around 6pm. Then the clocks will change - enjoy your extra hour in bed!! HTH.

Aaargh! I'd forgotten too! They go back, don't they? So dd normally goes to bed at 7:30 - keeping her up the extra hour in the evening will be no problem but she'll wake up at 6.30 in the morning as normal and it will only be 5.30. Aaarrgh... Lie-in? What lie-in?

Can't remember what we did last year (dd was 4 months then). I think we did what Suedonim suggests - keep putting everything (meals, naps, all day long) forward by 10 minutes until we got there.

This year I guess I will bribe her with some warm milk when she wakes up and then leave her in bed till a civilised hour...

I have been worrying about this for some time, with absolutely no conclusions

Thanks for the advice. I thought I was getting somewhere with the 10 minutes thing - had got as far as 6:05 - but then tonight it was screaming from 5p.m. (which was when he woke up from p.m. nap!). Will keep trying.