I don't know about yours, but at home this morning has been very hard. Delaying the clock an hour has left us a Monday in which it has been very difficult to get up, especially for children, who are more susceptible to sleep disorders.
Surely you have been through the same thing this morning and it will take a few days to get settled again, so we will give you some tips to cope with the time change.
Yesterday Sunday, the first day of the time change, you have made normal life with your usual schedules. That is, you found yourself having breakfast at 11 in the morning, eating at 4 in the afternoon and having dinner later than any other day. But of course, being Sunday there is no problem. The downside is that the next day you had to get up early.
Last night the children will have gone to sleep somewhat later than usual. Or if they have gone to bed at the usual time, most likely they have taken time to fall asleep. Because of course, if the child usually falls asleep at 8.30 his body is not sleepy at 7.30 which was the real time. Then they will have been going around in bed for a long time before falling asleep. What a story, what pampering, that I go to the bathroom, another story and that "I pee" again.
The problem has come this morning when they have had to open their eyes an hour before what they are used to. If they get up at 8, today they woke up at 7. Normal, the body asks for another hour of sleep. Please, this way you can't start the week!
The time change has disturbed the wake-sleep rhythm of children, and also of adults, the same happens when we have "jet-lag". It is not serious, because in a few days the nervous system gets used to the new schedule that we will keep for a few months.
What can we do to cope better? You have to try to respect the schedules that you maintain during the year for daily routines. Although the body does not ask you, you have to try to have dinner at the usual time and that the children go to bed at their time. It will cost them more to fall asleep these days, so have a good collection of books to read and a lot of patience to relax the child. The good thing is that with the early risers they will be more tired and are likely to fall quickly into the arms of Morpheus. You will see that in two or three days, at most a week, everything returns to normal.
The positive is that, unlike winter time, the new summer time leaves us longer days that allow us to enjoy more daylight hours to take advantage of the outdoors with the kids.
How are we doing at home? How was your Monday morning with new schedule? Do you have any tricks to cope better?
