A Collection of Sadly-Relatable Tweets About How Much Daylight Saving Time Sucks With Kids

Rita Templeton
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Fellow parents, if you too are slogging through the post-daylight-saving-time doldrums today, we raise our extra large tankards of coffee to you. What is it about an hour’s time change, in either direction, that can absolutely derail your entire family’s wellbeing?! “Spring forward” and “fall back” sounds like something energetic and fun — like some revolutionary way to put a pep in your step — but really, it’s just code for “let’s throw everyone’s sleep schedules into a tailspin” (insert diabolical laughter here) and whether you’re springing or falling, it sucks. There’s no doubt that it can mess with you no matter what your station in life, but for anyone who has to navigate the time change with little kids, it seems like an evil double whammy. And parents feeling the pinch are taking to X, the platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter, to commiserate.

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Seriously, everyone loves to brag about the chance to “get more sleep” — but for parents of little kids, it just ain’t happening.

And we sense some major sarcasm here:

To be honest, we’re … not even quite sure how to explain this whole mess to the little ones. Or why it’s even still a thing.

Actually, come to think of it, we don’t really get it either. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Whatever reason that the start and end of daylight saving time continues to exist, parents are suffering the consequences — and we’re just straight up not having a good time, bro.

And you can spare us those “helpful” tips (which always seem to come from people without kids).

Not even celebrity parents are immune to the wrath of daylight saving time.

We can hope all we want to that this will finally be the age where we’ll find that mysterious “extra hour” that daylight saving time reportedly brings, buuuuut …

Take heart, though — there is a light at the end of the hellish DST tunnel. (Even if it literally takes years to get there.)

And, let’s count our blessings that at least this isn’t a thing any more:

There may be arguments for daylight saving time, but if there are any that make up for the hell that is enduring daylight saving time when you’re a parent, we have yet to hear them. All we hear is the sound of our cranky kids … and our jaws cracking when we yawn.

However, until that changes, there is one pretty brilliant workaround.

Before you go, check out the kids’ sleep products moms swear by …

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