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Sunday, November 6, 2011

"Falling Back" as a parent. Whatever.

So last night we set our clocks back. I remember when the turning back of the clocks was awesome, because you could stay up an hour later. Oh, how foolish I was to think that it would always be so simple. Yeah. Babies/toddlers don't care. They just know that it's the same brightness today as it was yesterday, so they might as well get up. After all, they went to bed last night at about the same time last night because they were so tired that their mom couldn't imagine keeping them up an extra hour just to help them sleep in the morning (which I'm sure ALL of my children will achieve at some point in their lives, but I'm not holding my breath that it will happen anytime soon).

Which brings me to my other kids. I currently have a 2nd and 1st grader, both of whom know their numbers. They know the difference between a 5 and a 6. But in my husband's infinite wisdom, he let them stay up probably a half hour later than usual, and what do you know? They're up at 5:15. What's the point of having a clock in your room when you disregard what it says? When you get up and turn on the light?

I've determined that once you become a parent, the whole idea of "sleeping in" is a totally lost concept. Except maybe if you're a dad, then, for some reason, these rules don't always apply to you... but that's a whole other blog post. Even if you don't have the kids with you, your internal clock has a real problem with sleeping past a certain hour. For this house, that hour is 7:30am. Anything past 7:30 is a LUXURY.

So I much prefer the Spring "spring forward". SO much easier to deal with. You feel like a new person, saying that your kids actually slept until 7:15 (you can live in denial about the fact that it is really 6:15, the rest of us parents won't tell).

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