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you suck DST
By heather | November 5, 2007
Whoever the dumb ass was who came up with Daylight Savings Time obviously did not have kids. If you keep any kind of a schedule (as all parenting advice tells me I should) then it’s just lose-lose all around.
Because on the day we screw with the clock, Baby wakes up at what he thinks is 6:45am but is really 5:45am, then is off the entire day for everything from naps to eating.
Attempting to keep him awake an hour later resulted in incessant whining and misery from 5:30pm on (or what Baby thinks is 6:30 and where is my damn milk woman?), until I finally cracked and put him to bed at 6:30, or what he thought was 7:30, i.e. LATE.
And now, because bedtime is off we had wakey-wakey at 8:30pm (9:30pm) and again at 12:30am (1:30am) = not a good nights sleep. I obviously don’t adapt well and I think this entry effectively prohibits me from ever crossing a time zone with my child.
Yeah - screw you DST!
Topics: deep thoughts...or not, whining |
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