Comments on: Will the clocks going back affect your routine?

By: Liberty London Girl

Liberty London Girl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:52:01 +0000

We go out of sync with Europe for a few weeks. Terribly confusing. LLGxx

By: Mwa

Mwa — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:56:23 +0000

Coping with the clocks going back: fine, I have sleepers.
Bedtime routine: leave it to the husband. No idea what goes on, but he does a stirling job.
Why have you turned green with envy?

By: Working Mum

Working Mum — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:50:42 +0000

My daughter has never and will not tomorrow stay in bed an extra hour. We get up at the ungodly hour she wakes, then do all the meals at the new times and then go to bed an hour earlier on Sunday night!

Bedtime routine is: pj's at 6.15pm, then milk in lounge (quiet time), 6.30pm teeth and wash, 6.45pm bed and two stories (two if she's been good, it goes down to one or none if any bad behaviour whilst getting ready for bed – it's my last hold over her!).

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:31:36 +0000

get a hour extra in bed PAH! i know i will be up at blooming 5am trying to convince them it is still too early to get up. Oh well at least because its dark earlier my 3 will want to go to bed earlier now thats always a good thing lol! x

By: Millennium Housewife

Millennium Housewife — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:25:23 +0000

Gin and calpol, works every time.

By: rosiescribble

rosiescribble — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:37:05 +0000

It won't affect us as much now that my daughter is older, but it's likely that she'll get up at 5am rather than 6 which might be a problem. But if she sleeps through I'll probably wake up! It always takes my bodyclock afew days to adjust and twice I've forgotten to change all the clocks!

By: Laura C

Laura C — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:56:07 +0000

I don't know how we're going to cope, maybe keep toddler up a little later for him to sleep longer…! I think we'll just go with the flow. But with baby girl think it will be easier, they tend to be a little bit more flexible at this age!

By: whistlejacket

whistlejacket — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:20:51 +0000

Last year when the clocks went back I commented to a friend 'an extra hour in bed!' forgetting I had two children with no concept of daylight saving. Like you I'd have loved to plan the routine but I suspect we'll muddle through. The children are on a routine but my eldest is currently waking up about 5.30am anyway so anything goes tomorrow!

By: april

april — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:09:19 +0000

bloody clocks :s children and daylight savings is not fun…neither is insomnia and daylight savings – sigh…best of luck.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:29:58 +0000

I'm afraid that I've always had clock change Nightmares but the only good thing is that it's only taken a week or less to get back to normal with me sticking to the new routine as rigidly as poss. My earliest ever wake up was a couple if days after the clock change when my middle one was then 2 and an early esker anyway. 4.30 am is not a good time to start the day! As with all these things, it does pass, so just hold on to that. In terms of bedtime routine I don't do anything unusual, just tea bath 2 stories and bed. I just keep it the same every day without fail.

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:27:40 +0000

In spring we just did all his usual things at their usual times, well, their usual NEW times. He was a bit thrown out for a couple of days but soon settled again.

So tomorrow we'll just have breakfast/snacks/nap/tea etc an hour later, or at least as close to an hour as I can push him. I'm just really REALLY hoping that he doesn't decide to have one of his "I want to get up at 4.30am" days, because you know what time the clocks will say…

Actually. No scratch that. Ant gets up with Kai at weekends – he can get up whenever he wants