I tried those daylight saving time tips with my kid ? here?s how it went
by Becky Vieira posted in Parenting
Memes depicting the trauma that daylight saving time inflicts upon parents everywhere have been flooding my social media all week. Soon our children will turn into nocturnal creatures, depriving the entire family of sleep. Schedules be dammed, they will laugh at the numbers on the clock and sleep only when they want. The majority of the parents in my Facebook feed have been preparing for it as a survivalist would an apocalypse.
Memes are often humorous because they exaggerate real situations. But not in this case. Every single thing you hear and read is true. It?s hell. No, it makes hell look like a five-star resort. It almost feels like you?re operating at newborn baby-level exhaustion for a few days. Truly. My son has always been a ?challenged? sleeper. He?s essentially the baby who never slept, the one you hear about in urban legends. Our pediatrician sent us to a sleep coach when he was 5 months-old and we finally found peace through a schedule. And then daylight saving time comes around and says ?screw you? to that schedule.
I refused to go back. To the exhaustion, the feeling of sleepwalking through my day. I was going to beat daylight saving time and my plan was to hack my son?s schedule to survive. Either that, or I?d leave him with my parents until he adjusted. Unfortunately, they said no. I went for the hack plan.
Luckily the internet is full of great resources for tips on surviving daylight saving time (you can find BabyCe...
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