I came across a New York Times blog entry on Daylight Saving Time yesterday, and it made me laugh. Referring to the “falling back” of the clocks, the blogger wrote, “I [used to] 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.” She went on to explain that for most adults, switching back to standard time means an extra hour of sleep. But for a parent, he/she is bound to hear very early in the morning “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.”

Though a wonderful thing in general, parenting definitely takes some things away from you – and the enjoyment of the fall-back is one of them! I know I’ll be thinking of this on Sun. morning, when a little girl starts talking around 5 or 5:30 AM. (Yawn.)

-M

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