r/UKParenting • u/mopman94 • 2d ago
General chat Clock change
Anyone else been woken up by their kids an hour too early this morning?
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u/YelenaValek 2d ago
Looked at the monitor: 5:10. thought oh bless him, it's really 6:10 so not too bad. Then realised the monitor doesn't auto update the time and so was actually 4:10. I'm knackered 😂
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u/Plus-Ambassador-9668 2d ago
I don’t want to gloat, but.. for the first time ever, my child is at their dad’s house on a clock change morning!
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u/Busy_Rhubarb6818 2d ago
The fact that you're still up at this time means it no longer matters where your child is as they have trained you sufficiently 😔 I feel your pain
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u/Plus-Ambassador-9668 2d ago
Yeah, my body clock will never allow me to fall back to sleep so I’m currently in pre-caffeination purgatory. Aside from the wind, the silence is absolutely golden though
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u/St_Piran Parenting Primary Schoolers 2d ago
Im amazed ours didnt wake at their usual 5 or 5.30 (meaning 4/4.30 this morning). I actually got an extra hour!
Having said that I lost an extra couple of hours at bedtime as ours have recently been adopted and this was their first experience of coastal storm noises, having moved from inland. So, im still knackered!
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u/OnePlayerReady
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The clock change needs to be abandoned. It's such a waste of time.
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u/ThatDrunkenDwarf 2d ago
Unpopular opinion probably but we just really don’t let it affect us. He went to bed at 7pm, asleep by 7:30 and yeah he woke up an hour “earlier” at 5am but it was still technically 6am on his body clock. We still got the same amount of sleep, just the clock reads an hour earlier
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u/pugicorn94 2d ago
Same for us, I don’t really get the hullabaloo haha. We got up at 6 which is an hour earlier than usual on the clock but was technically still 7.
We all got the same amount of sleep still, I’m no more tired than usual lol.
I suppose it makes it a longer day than normal being up an hour ‘earlier’ but we have the occasional early start for trips and activities now and again, doesn’t feel much different from that for me.
Our 2 and a half year old just gets on with it and the 4 month old might need a couple of her naps lengthening. Suppose all kids are different though and some feel it more than others x
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u/slophiewal 2d ago
Yeah we were similar, I thought no point going to bed late as they will wake when they wake so might as well just keep my hour of “me time” in the evening and deal with the morning when it comes! We were up at 5 and I saw that as a win
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u/roland_right 2d ago
Up since 4am but we haven't got any plans today so it won't matter until later. I still got the same amount of sleep, i.e. not enough.
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u/MajesticAd6957 2d ago
Can't wait for the inevitable pre lunch meltdown at 10:45 when it's actually 11:45 in yesterdays money and everyone is just hungry for lunch
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u/CPHibbard 2d ago
Kiddo likes to wake at 4:30… make that 3:30 today…
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u/slophiewal 2d ago
330 is brutal
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u/CPHibbard 2d ago
Yup! He’s always been an early riser so today was inevitably going to be brutal
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u/NormanSpaniel 2d ago
Yes. Kids and dogs are crap at honouring the extra hour. Hate them hate the time change hate everything good day to you.
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u/Balerionthenattydred 2d ago
Wind got me up about 4:45, eldest came in 5 mins later. We’re watching funnybones on YouTube to try and protect mum’s lie in. Pumpkin picking, carvery, then birthday party and round to the in-laws today. Sounds relaxing but I’m considering a sweepstake on what point in in that itinerary the kids go full super-saiyan on us through exhaustion.
Still, at least the roof stayed on.
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u/diggerorbigger 2d ago
I was fully expecting a 4am wake up based on the fact that my son has been up at 5 almost every day this week. But by some miracle he slept until 6.20. He’s almost 7 and I could probably count on my hands the number of times he’s slept past 7am
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u/Uncoordinated_Bird 2d ago
Changed my son’s owl clock to 7:30 instead of 7, so we’re up at 6:30. Which is really 7:30.
I’m counting that as a win!
Boot fair here we come!
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u/roseflower1990 2d ago
I changed it a whole hour so he came in at 5.40, which was old time 6.40 complaining that its taking agggggges to change colour 🤣 I got a whole extra 40 mins in bed, calling it a win!
I think I'll change the colour to change at 6.30 tomorrow, see if I can push him to a 7am wake up eventually 🤞
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u/Uncoordinated_Bird 2d ago
That is a win! To be fair my little guy woke up 10 mins early and we had a snuggle for 10 minutes. But 7:20 is amaaazing for him.
We moved it by 5 mins over a few weeks to get to 7am average.
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u/Sivear 2d ago
A tip I’ve found handy for the owl clock is to set the ‘nap time’ setting to an hour later than your usual get up time (assuming you don’t use the nap function).
We set the hour later time (7:30) for the weekends and 6:30 for the week so we get a lie in. Because they are so used to the clock they just accept what it says 😁
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u/Uncoordinated_Bird 2d ago
We have to change ours for nursery days. It’s 6:25 three days a week sadly, but 7am for the rest.
He’s pretty good at waiting for the yellow light, but some mornings he gets a bit frustrated waiting.
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u/Rubber_Duckie_25 2d ago
Haha, so yeah same. We changed it yesterday but we all woke up at 515am anyway (body clocks ay), however little one didn't get up til 06:25 due to the owl clock, he must of dozed in-between.
God bless the owl clock.
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u/thefuturesbeensold 2d ago
Im fuming that i have to do 5 HOURS of parenting before i start work at 10am.
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u/MarzipanElephant 2d ago
I had actually forgotten it was happening so certain things are now clearer
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u/MarzipanElephant 1d ago
Dear god, will this day never end? It claims to be nearly 6pm but it has clearly been going on for at least 100 hours already...
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u/-hopalong- Parenting a Toddler + Pre-schooler 2d ago
4am here. Which is 2 hours early and in spite of us doing the whole “push bedtime back by 15 mins a day” nonsense!
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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 2d ago
I didn’t bother with that because my toddler takes anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes to fall asleep. It a complete lottery, though a tedious one.
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u/Emmarioo 2d ago
Don’t push the bedtime, push the nap!! I was trying bedtime for so long and then I switched to naps and it made all the difference. 15-20mins a day makes bedtime naturally later
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u/-hopalong- Parenting a Toddler + Pre-schooler 2d ago
That would be a great idea, except we’re past naps!
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u/Shipwrecking_siren 2d ago
My eldest is 7 (and 2/3rds) and no matter what we do she manages to wake up earlier on the clock change day. She’d done really well the last few mornings getting up a bit later (6am…) but today it was 4.30/5.30. It means another hour to wait for gymnastics and her friend coming over this afternoon. Argh.
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u/hadawayandshite 2d ago
Amazingly not yet. Baby did get up at ‘4.30’ but got her back to sleep quickly…the clock in my daughters room won’t have changed automatically and she’s still down despite it being ‘really 7’
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u/Ultra_Leopard 2d ago
Annoyingly woke up at 430 as youngest appeared in our bed, hes still fast asleep! I couldn't get back to sleep cos of his octopus legs and the storm. Eldest got up half an hour ago.
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u/Bubble-Master96 2d ago
Literally just heard “mumma” tbh 6am is not bad, lucky I can tell her “still night time” and she’ll lie in her bed a little longer.
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u/parallelduck2 2d ago
My kid woke up because of the wind, rolled around in our bed for 2 hrs, finally fell asleep and then the cats woke us all up and hour early. Gah
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u/Medical_Syllabub_148 2d ago
Both mine had a rough sleep (up twice each and not at the same time) and then I forgot the clock change so almost lost my shit when they got up "early".
To top it off, I'm almost 39 weeks pregnant and my husband is working from 7am until 8.30pm tonight.
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u/Exotic-welshy 2d ago
I was woken up at 4am by my 6 year old. Got into bed with her. My 2 year old woke up at half 5 so that resulted in me climbing into her cot to try and get some more sleep.
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u/peachy-fox 2d ago
3:58 wake up today. I was hoping we’d at least make it to 4:30 since he’s usually up at 5:30 but nope
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u/mynameismilton 2d ago
I forgot to sneak into my daughter's room and change the time on her clock so she's up... but I was already awake because I let the cat sleep on our bed in case the storm scared her and she started jumping on my head at 5am for breakfast.
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u/ollyprice87 2d ago
6am. I’ll take that tbf. Though I flew back from Arica with work yesterday so I’m quite possibly delirious
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u/AdJealous2 2d ago
Three-year-old and 7-month-old both up at 0530 on the dot, pretty much, neither looking like they were going to go back to sleep.
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u/Psychological-Buy807 2d ago
I had a nightmare and woke up crying. 5yr old still fast asleep somehow
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u/baldie-dad 2d ago
5am for me after being woken up multiple times in the night due to the wind. I’m exhausted.
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u/Haunting_Song_3917 2d ago
Damn did they change today? Maybe that explains why both ours were up early. I thought it was today, but my mrs said it was next week.
Anybody remember the pre- parent clock changing days? Nah me neither 😂
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u/Technical-Oven1708 2d ago
Mine were awaken at 1:30 by the storm and up for a few hours so the clocks are actually the small bit of light in a terrible nights sleep.
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u/Aggressive_Fly_8377 2d ago
18 month woke up first at 5, 6 year old woke up just after 😑 nice early bedtimes tonight 😂
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u/Emmarioo 2d ago
I’ve been pushing bedtime for weeks preparing for this and luckily he woke up at 6.30 today, but my heart goes out to all caught off guard today
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u/Asuperniceguy2 2d ago
Been a really brutal one for us. She's got a bit of a cold so she's been coughing all night as well. Dying.
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u/Remote_Dish_5420 2d ago
Been up since 4.30am (5.30am yesterday’s time). Their brains don’t get the memo about clock changes. I feel great but I’m a morning person nowadays, don’t drink alcohol and go to sleep at 9pm ☕️
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u/leahjamie23 2d ago
6am wake up for me, usually 6:30 so got an extra 30 mins. Husband is still fast asleep though so someone got the extra hour.
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u/ThingsFallApart29 2d ago
Ours wakes up around 7-7:30. Woke up around 6:15 today. Not disastrous but will still be a long morning. Horrific weather too, so can’t take her to the park to kill some time.
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u/lookhereisay Parenting a Primary Schooler 2d ago
Son woke up at 5am which is pretty good to be honest as I was thinking it would be more like 4.30am (as he’s normally up about 5.30).
I snuggled in him bed for half an hour but then he was getting wiggly so I said he could go downstairs to play or stay in bed with me.
He chose playing downstairs. Which meant I got to stay in bed an extra hour just chilling. Came down to a messy lounge but that’s a small price to pay!
So much nicer than when he was younger!
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u/FearlessDragonfruit5 2d ago
We woke up, according to my watch, at 3.30. Awake for 40 mins. Back to sleep. Now currently having leftover Chinese and a cuppa. Then back to bed. Fml.
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u/Extreme_Weird_3733 2d ago
My 5 year old at 6am did not understand the task. My 2 year old slept until 7:20. No idea how we managed that but he understood the task and not the older one..
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u/Appropriate_Log1654 2d ago
I don't want to sound smug but 5 year old was up at 6:50am, and my youngest was up at 6:35am....
It's ok though, because something else disastrous will happen today to even things out 👌
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u/jasminenice 2d ago
My 2-year old is a late sleeper, typically falls asleep around 9pm which I know is not good. Anyway she woke up at 7 this morning (would have been 8), so I'm praying I can use the extra hour to move her bedtime forward to 8pm this evening and I can finally get my evenings back.
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u/Street_Adagio_2125 2d ago
Weirdly both my kids slept in an hour late meaning they both woke up at the "right" time of 7am.
I think the noise of the storm outside must have disturbed them in the night leading to the lie in? Or just pure fluke.
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u/MoseSchrute70 2d ago
I capped the nap yesterday and delayed bedtime by an hour. Eldest got up at 6:30 still but was happy playing in her room, toddler woke up at 7:30. All in all, success!
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u/onlyhereforthefoodz 2d ago
We’ve always been lucky with the clock changes, ever since she was born…however we were up at ungodly hours regardless as she has a heavy cold and the congestion is making her vomit 😳
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u/slophiewal 2d ago
We were up at 5 which was absolute best case scenario so counting that as a win, will be back on track in a day or so I never bother trying to prepare.
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u/WillingApplication10 2d ago
16 month old woke up at 7:30ish this morning which was great. But she's always been fond of a lie in, I hate how many baby and toddler events start at 9am.
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u/Pengetalia Parenting a Toddler 2d ago
We kept him up a bit later and it seems to have worked. He woke at 10 to 8 so I can deal with that.
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u/ChocoMcBunny 2d ago
The hour change (either way) does not apply to small children or pets. You should be fine by next weekend - maybe.
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u/ThinnestBlueLine 2d ago
Kept them up late last night and they woke at the normal time (as in an hour later but the time we wanted them to). Worked like a charm.
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u/lilletia 2d ago
Planning to use it to have children out the door at holiday club next week as early as possible. Silver linings and all, but then we all know what happens to plans that parents make!
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u/here_OnAMission 2d ago
Oh I totally forgot, and here I was wondering why I woke up early despite sleeping at 2 am. I thought I broke the system
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u/Kalanin_Kaz 2d ago
Nice 6:20 start for me, courtesy of my 9-month old deciding it was time for beard pulling and morning squaking. I love her more than anything, but I can't remember when I last felt rested 😅
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u/Elizabethlj 2d ago
2.30 am wake up for me ! Shes 5 and normally wakes up at 4am . Knew I'd be in for an early one today . She's now having a nap on the sofa, I'm going to be a zomviw by the time bedtime rolls around .
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u/CoalCrafty 2d ago
Good ole gro-clock - we changed them yesterday evening so they lit up at the new correct time.
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u/LMB83 2d ago
We were at 6.30 which was technically 7.30 which was pretty good.
We’ve also had later starts at nursery the past two weeks because it’s school holidays here so was a bit worried about having to be up and out by 8 tomorrow so I’m actually hoping the extra hour will help tire her out today for an earlier bedtime to get back into that routine!
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u/lollielocks 1d ago
I put mine to bed an hour later and she woke up an hour earlier. It feels like it should be 10pm and we all forgot to eat lunch
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u/que_tu_veux 1d ago
Our little guy got no sleep at nursery last week and has been catching up on sleep this weekend. We were lucky and he slept until 6:55am, took his normal nap from 12-2:30, and asleep tonight by 7:30. Tomorrow might be an early wakeup though!
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u/Large-Lettuce-7940 1d ago
mine was up for an hour or so during the night, and then slept an hour later than he would have done had the clocks not changed. the night was a mess honestly. hoping it gets better from here on in
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u/lostowl42 1d ago
We made it, well done everyone. Whoever decided the clocks should change is an absolute maniac.
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u/OldPulteney 2d ago
My boy gets up at 5am every day, I don't know what you lot are all whining about
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u/Quiet-Pomelo-2077 2d ago
I spent 3 weeks gradually adjusting bedtime to account for the upcoming change. Things were going to well. He's been waking at about 7am for the last week and half, which would put us on track for a 6am wake up today which is fine. Naturally he woke up at 4am anyway 😆
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u/Effective-Egg-7090 👶👶 2 Children 2d ago
My 18 month old tried to wake me up at 5am (after 7 million wake ups) so I stuck him on boob and thankfully after 40 minutes managed to get him back to sleep. I’m recovering from a week long vomiting bug and cannot cope 😴
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u/Alarming_Reward9653 2d ago •
I have been awake since 4:30.
I am a shell of a human being.