Daylight Whatever Time
Saving, losing, if facebook is to be trusted, every has an opinion about the time change - parents especially.
I'm not a fan of it, but I'm not going to blame my dislike for the time change on my kids.
Last fall while facebook was taken over by all the complaints about not getting an extra hour of sleep because the kids would wake up at their usual time anyway, only now it would be a WHOLE HOUR EARLIER(!!!) I wondered if people really forced themselves to stay in bed an extra hour just because the clock said so. I'm just as likely to be waking up at my usual time as my kids. We actually used "fall back" to finally get into a decent morning routine. Nathan had a really hard time getting up for school at the beginning of the fall, but as soon as he could sleep until 7am and the clock called that time 6am, we were good to go. He got up between 5:45 and 6:00 am for that whole first week of the time change before settling in to join the rest of the east coast's sense of time. Maybe I would have felt differently if the boys had been getting up at 5am before the fall shift back.
I was a little worried about springing forward would mean for getting up for church and school this week, but it hasn't been terrible. Yesterday, still being in bed at 7am felt luxurious, even if every cell in my body knew full well that it was actually 6am. The boys had no trouble going to bed when the clock said it was bed time last night. And while this morning it was hard for Nathan to get up (he did not manage to open his eye for real until 7am - we need to leave for school by 7:30) we'd planned well and the morning wasn't a disaster.
So I guess if we used "fall back" to make getting up a little easier, maybe we can use "spring ahead" to get into better night-before habits to make mornings a little easier. Or we can just say, well that wasn't so bad, and move on. Either way, as long as we keep up this silly time change thing you won't find me complaining about it.