TOTW: Daylight Savings

It’s Monday again, which means it’s time for a new topic of the week. Since yesterday was Daylight Savings, I wanted to ask a couple of questions about that.

So, in the Fall, we go backwards, which essentially means our kids are going to bed earlier and waking up earlier. For me, the bedtime deal is great, but I am not the happiest camper in the morning. Instead of getting up between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m., I am now being woken up at 6:30 a.m.

My son fell asleep at 8:30 last night, though, which is great. A whole other topic, but my husband and I went on a date last night. It was our 7th wedding anniversary so we got all dressed up, went for a fancy dinner (generously payed for by family members) and then to see a movie. We left our son with his grandparents and were figuring he’d pass out at some point before we got back, but were pleased to hear he went to bed at a normal hour. It made perfect sense, because he normally falls asleep sometime between 9:30 and 10. Yes, he goes to bed late – I know! I figure now is the perfect time to change that.

So, that brings me to ask you all this: do you adjust your children’s sleeping times when Daylight Savings occurs or do you just go with the flow of them now having an earlier bedtime and wakeup time (or later bedtime/wakeup time if it’s in the Spring)? Do they naturally adjust their own internal time clocks and start going to bed and waking up the same time they did before?

How about you? Does the time change affect you and your sleeping patterns? I gotta say, I’m pretty tired waking up at the crack of dawn.