citymama
10-29-2008, 06:37 PM
Too true! Not looking fwd to waking up at 5 on Sunday morning...
[sleepy smiley would go here, but I can't seem to find one]
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/the-daylight-savings-loss/?hp
October 29, 2008
The Daylight Saving Loss
By Lisa Belkin (http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/author/lisa-belkin/)
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Fall back: my favorite night of the year. A gift from the government, that extra hour of sleep. I look forward to it all year, and distinctly remember my horror during my first changeover as a new parent, when my gift turned on me.
An adult switching from Daylight Saving Time to standard time wakes up in response to her body clock, looks at the time, sees it is an hour earlier than it was 24 hours ago and happily goes back to sleep. A parent, on the other hand, does all that, then hears the sounds of a wide awake young one in the other room.
Instead of an extra hour of sleep, parents of young children get an hour less. The clock says 5 a.m., the baby says “woohoo, it feels like 6!” Then, in the evening, they start sleepily fussing a full hour before it is time to go to bed.
[...]
It is one of many moments that used to be relaxing but become something else when seen through a parent’s lens. Long plane rides are no longer about a stack of good magazines. Long car rides are no longer about leaving the direct route and finding an off-beat place for lunch. Your spouse being off at a work dinner no longer means a chick flick for you, or a beer with friends.
[...]
[sleepy smiley would go here, but I can't seem to find one]
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/the-daylight-savings-loss/?hp
October 29, 2008
The Daylight Saving Loss
By Lisa Belkin (http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/author/lisa-belkin/)
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Fall back: my favorite night of the year. A gift from the government, that extra hour of sleep. I look forward to it all year, and distinctly remember my horror during my first changeover as a new parent, when my gift turned on me.
An adult switching from Daylight Saving Time to standard time wakes up in response to her body clock, looks at the time, sees it is an hour earlier than it was 24 hours ago and happily goes back to sleep. A parent, on the other hand, does all that, then hears the sounds of a wide awake young one in the other room.
Instead of an extra hour of sleep, parents of young children get an hour less. The clock says 5 a.m., the baby says “woohoo, it feels like 6!” Then, in the evening, they start sleepily fussing a full hour before it is time to go to bed.
[...]
It is one of many moments that used to be relaxing but become something else when seen through a parent’s lens. Long plane rides are no longer about a stack of good magazines. Long car rides are no longer about leaving the direct route and finding an off-beat place for lunch. Your spouse being off at a work dinner no longer means a chick flick for you, or a beer with friends.
[...]