Boots ad: "an extra hour of me time"

[midivydale]

...Got the above email in relation to the change of clocks...

Any other mums of babies/toddlers who thought this was a slight insult (she says through gritted teeth on her second cuppa at 05.45).

[hellosailor]

It made me laugh too!

My children didn't apparently get the email..

[kristymac1]

Hahaha, I dread the clocks going back (and forward), but my 15month old actually slept through and till 6.30 this morning (so a 5.30 start) which was brilliant as I was expecting his usual 5.15 (so 4.15 start:-/). Clearly he must be ill........

'Me time' pfft!

[susyp]

my husband actually said to me last night - ooh we get an extra hours lie in tomorrow . Then I reminded him, no, it was just an extra long day to contend with.

how can it not even be lunchtime yet!

we've already had to have two breakfasts!

susypx

[Pickle]

We changed our kids clock last night - at 6am (new time) they came into our room concerned that the clock was broken, as "we are sure it is getting up time now". We told them it was still nighttime, and off they went back to bed! Result. This parenting thing definitely gets easier when they're older.

Littlest one lies in her cot sucking her thumb until someone goes and gets her, not sure whether she noticed we were an hour late :)

[midivydale]

Pickle, could baby ivydale and I come to your house for a week of workexperince please?

[Pickle]

Anytime ;)

[canela]

but on the plus side they do go to bed a whole lot earlier in the winter!

[midivydale]

canela Wrote:

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> but on the plus side they do go to bed a whole lot

> earlier in the winter!

Yea?

[canela]

mine do. I keep them on the same body-clock routine - so it's just an hour earlier to bed and an hour earlier to rise. plus we all just seem to go to bed earlier in the winter - surely a normal reaction to being dark so early!

i don't mean they go to bed ridiculously early though. in our house it means changing from 9pm to 8pm, and up at 6 rather than 7.

and I'm not talking toddlers - bit older now. so much easier!

[midivydale]

Yes a very natural reaction and I am praying that my toddler will realise this too;)

Its been a looooong day:)

X

[KikiMac]

kristymac1 Wrote:

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> Hahaha, I dread the clocks going back (and

> forward), but my 15month old actually slept

> through and till 6.30 this morning (so a 5.30

> start) which was brilliant as I was expecting his

> usual 5.15 (so 4.15 start:-/). Clearly he must be

> ill........

>

> 'Me time' pfft!

Spooky, KristyMac, nearly the same name, and the same rising time! Except mine stuck to his usual 5.15, hence I got the 4.15 start yesterday... and today... *matchsticks*

[Strawbs]

amazingly yesterday my son slept til 6.30 (he is a 5am riser!) but today 4am he was ready to get up, obviously it wasnt going to happen which resulted in after me going in and trying to pat him back off to sleep him calling out endlessly for an hour - mama mama - whilst I laid awake praying he would sleep, he eventually went back off and slept til 6.45..

Ive always thought 5am was early but 4am is just rude!

x

[Bellenden Belle]

4am start here today.

What did we do wrong?!!!

We stretched him last night til 7pm (so 8pm in his world and an hour later than his normal bedtime).

What time should we put him down tonight? I'm tempted to try 6pm, going with the sleep beget sleep theory.

Bizarrely he has only had 45 mins nap today and yet us in better spirits than normal.

[Strawbs]

I always find with baby strawbs if I try to put him in bed later than normal (normal bed time is circa 8.15) all that happens is he ends up with less sleep and is grumpy, it never results in him sleeping longer unfortunately. I am just going to persist with 8.15 (maybe 8.30) and then off to bed he goes, thankfully he always goes off without a problem its the sleeping through that is the problem.. x

[RenF]

We just keep on rolling in our house- have never tried to adjust bedtime to changing clocks, just adjusted ourselves to the clocks and put to bed at the time we normally would (regardless of whether this means bed an hour 'later' or 'earlier' than the previous day.

Seems to work for us, and less complicated than trying to do anything else!

[midivydale]

Yes another 4 sm start here. Later bedtime doesnt work for us. At the moment baby Ivydale goes to bed about 6.30. He is so tired by then bless him all he wants is to sleep. He wakes at 5 (4 post clockchange) regardless of time he goes to bed. At leasr if he goes down at 6.30 I can do some house work and still get an early night. Then when he wakes up we cuddle, read books etc and at least I get to see him. Dont get me wrong, it is still torture I am just trying not to dispair and do the best that I can with it.

[Otta]

This is where you people with routines suffer. We have no routine, so we just suffer all the time. But I'd rather an early morning than having to watch Peppa Pig at 9pm when you've just run out of patience and good cheer.

[Strawbs]

Otta I hear you, baby strawbs is always in bed by 8.30 (normally 8.15) else my sanity goes out the window..

[midivydale]

Being abit of a control freak I love routine but that is just not how baby Ivydale roll. Having to let go of routine and "go with it" has been one of my hardest lessons of this parenthood thing so far.