Daylight savings was scheduled by a childless man

Default parents would never. So I'm taking it into my own hands.

A few years ago I was bemoaning the fact that the hardest time after daylight savings isn’t the day of the adjustment, it’s the day after and that is a Monday. It seemed like a cruel joke.

And then I had an epiphany: we could just change one day early. So we did. And it has worked brilliantly.

First things first: if this won’t work for your family, or the thought of taking on more labor to benefit the other humans in your household is too much right now, then don’t do this. Some years, we do it, others we skip it; it often depends what our schedule is looking like.

In short, we do all the typical DLS prep we typically do, just on Friday night instead of Saturday night: adjust the clocks, tell our kiddo they make wake up at a time that feels off from what the clock says, etc.

And on our phones and tablets, I go into the settings and manually adjust the time zone so that everything in my phone, such as alarms and appointments, also gets adjusted.

What about things like soccer games, or playdates, or scheduled events? If possible, we still attend and it’s just one hour off from when they typically are; alarms come in handy for remembering those things since they won’t be at the “same” time as usual.

But like I said, some years we have too much going on so we skip it.

If you give it a try, let me know how it goes for you! Do you have other spring forward survival tips?