I hate daylight savings time. I mean I REALLY hate daylight savings time. But this year, I've discovered an entirely new reason to hate daylight savings time aside from the change in sleep patterns and disruption in my seratonin levels.
I have a six year old son who is in the first grade at the local elementary school. They start school at 7:30 in the morning. And in order for me to get him up, dressed, fed & at school by 7:30, I have to get up at 6 AM and get him up at 6:30.
This means he's got to be in bed by 8 PM otherwise he's the crankiest kid around (makes Damien look like a saint).
There's only one problem....now that the clocks have been clicked forward an hour....he went from going to bed just after sunset and getting up just at dawn..to going to bed an hour before the sun sets and getting up an hour before it rises. TOTALLY BACKWARDS, in my estimate.
Does anyone know how hard it is to get a child to go to sleep when its still light out?? AND the neighbor kids are still playing outside!!?????
This whole we're gonna change the time to give more light in the evenings to save energy is total bunk. I mean, so now instead of turning the lights on in the evenings, I'm turning them on in the mornings. You just moved the problem...how does that save energy.
I WISH the government would just leave the clocks alone.......
posted @ Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:03 PM