And it's been so funny, hard, exhausting trying to explain to my littlest that yes even though our clock currently says 8:00, (I had not changed them yet and well, yeah...) it's really 7:00am ...... but why? they would both ask
and we would do our best to explain day light savings and how it's ending
but why
you mean yesterday at this time it was really 8:00am but today it's now 7:00?
Yes, that's how it works
but why?
and then oldest chimming in with her "opinion" and how lame it is and the government shouldn't mess with the clocks.....
and then that starts a whole round of questions and once again the question of why!
It's pretty comical, and yet wow their persistence is now well, getting annoying
hahah I just have no other way to explain it for them to understand, it just is what it is!
And what is so funny is for myself, especially as a kid, man I just accepted it... and moved on, never thought another thing about it
but I have to say, my kids question everything, are curious about everything, want to make sense of everything, want to understand everything
I guess that's not so bad..... more of fatiguing at times
especially when I know I will never have the answer to fully satisfy their little minds
which of course means only one thing
GOOGLE it!
So the next time they bring it up (as I've set it aside for right this minute) it will be time for a history lesson on Day lights savings time.
and of course with my one little guy, I"m just really hoping that this gaining of an hour doesn't totally screw up his "system" as the change in time is playing with our natural circadian rhythms which until better adjusted causes dysregulation, and in a kid that is already so dyregulated... how can he possibly "regulate" when this change in time occurs.... We really see his regulation and abilities to regulate change with seasons- so many "external" inputs that are always changing... and it literally messes him up for at least a few weeks until he "more or less gets used to it".....
when he was little, he would never wear a jacket the first month or so it began turning cold
I had the kid that people would say "shouldn't he be wearing a jacket?"
how annoying that was, as if I didn't put a jacket on him, or at least attempt to, or offer it.. and it always was rejected and thrown back at me
But trust me, as the season continued, by the time it got "that cold" he was willing to put a jacket ont
I learned, who am I to say he is cold? Just because I am, clearly his body processes everything so different
but we saw this repeatedly through his younger years... and then also he would take a while to "take the jacket off" even as season warmed up..... he was used to wearing the jacket, and that's what he did, even on hot days
and again ultimately he would eventually take it off, and again the comments from "public" of "isn't he going to over heat?"
why, just because he's wearing a winter jacket and it's 85 degrees? I guess he won't-
he'll take it off when he's good and ready!
but like all things- things happen on "his time" "his way" "his idea" "his decision"
Because that's just how things are......... so here we go again, into a "new external change" change of time, with the upcoming changing of the seasons
changing of weather, changing of how much daylight we experience
which means how long he can play outside doing what he loves- basketball
before we tell him it's not safe to be in the street playing when it's dark- our rule is "when street lights turn on"
boy that's going to happen pretty early today! Better be ready ;)
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