GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Clocks spring forward one hour early Sunday morning.
It means we’ll get to enjoy extra daylight in the evening, but it also means losing one hour’s sleep Saturday night.
Parents should start Wednesday night to help ease kids into the transition to Daylight Saving Time using what’s called “bedtime fading.”
Kids thrive on routine, and that one hour can make a big difference.
Bedtime fading is adjusting bedtime in 15-minute increments. If your child’s bedtime is 8 o’clock, put them to bed at 7:45. Keep pushing it back 15 minutes until Saturday.
Kids can go to bed at their normal time on Sunday (8 o’clock in our example).
Losing sleep from the time change can have an impact beyond this weekend.
“It isn’t necessarily a Sunday thing. It can turn into a week of poorer functioning or maybe heightened emotions due to that lack of sleep they experienced a few days earlier. It can take a few days to get back to where you were,” Dr. Casey Freymiller, a pediatrician at UW Health Kids, said.
A recent study showed teenagers have a slower reaction time and trouble paying attention the week following Daylight Saving Time.
That can especially have an impact on things like driving and learning.
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