Daughter Won't Sleep past 7Am Since Daylight Savings Change - Help

I know that I have read that kids around 2 or 3 start waking up earlier because their minds are becoming more aware of time. It just happened to be that it came at the time change for both you and me! Which I guess is better than having them start it before and now feel like they are waking at 6am instead of 7. When my 4yo was younger, as soon as I got him to understand the snowman on the clock (the 8) and two zeros, I told him to stay in bed until he sees the snowman. It worked wonderfully until time change when my now 2 yo started getting up at 7, 715ish.... Now as soon as he starts learning about the snowman, I will hopefully have a few more years until the new one gets to that age! :)

Use dark curtains and be grateful it isn't earlier! My little guy has been waking up anywhere between 4 and 7 am and crawling into bed with us, which means I get no more sleep. Some of that can be contributed to his double ear infection, but there's not a lot you can do about their internal clock. Good luck!

we used blinds and black roller shades!!

It is very normal for children to wake between 6 and 7. If they are not getting enough sleep then they need to go to bed earlier. My 2nd is up every morning between 6 and 6:15. It drives me crazy, but I have learned to embrace her earliness!

Your kids normally sleep past 7??? I'm jealous already. My two have ALWAYS been up before 7. Used to be 6:00!
But, I do have a piece of advice for you. When our kids were also 4 & 2, it started to get REALLY early. So we got kids digital alarm clocks and used a sticky note to cover the minutes, so only the hour was exposed. We told them that they could not get up or wake each other up before the number turned to a '7'. It took a couple of days, but eventually they got the hang of it. They even trained themselves to sleep until seven (not just wake and lay in bed). If they do wake up and it still says '6', they know they at least have to stay in bed quietly until it turns. Usually by 7:01 they are in my bed! Good luck. Maybe you can try having yours wait until it says '8'. :-)

Most kids that age wake between 6-7am...that is what they're biologically programmed to do. Guess you'll be happy when the time changes back again :) Keeping my kids up later in hopes of them sleeping later always backfired on me...they'd wake even earlier!

It happens, and there is no way to get a kid to sleep later in the mornings. My boys are early risers, and regardless of what time *I* want them to sleep until in the morning, they are both out of bed by 7am. I've just learned to deal with it, and thats probably what you will have to do as well.

A later bedtime may have an adverse affect.... making her wake up EARLIER. N omatter what time my boys go to bed, they are up by 7am, whether they go to bed at 7pm or 10pm, they are both up early.

continue your regular routine, put her to bed on time, and be thankful its 7am she wakes up (which is really not that early), and not 5am!

The later I put mine to be the later they sleep in. I have a 4yr old and 19month old. My 19month old sleeps most days until right around 9am and my 4 year old is around 8:30 or 9am too. I put my 19month old to be round 8 or 9am and my 4yr old around 9 or 10pm. Cause they dont have anything to be up for in the morning unless we have something going on. Hope fully yours will start to sleep longer for you. What time do you put her to bed at night? Well good luck.

Hi E.
Have you tried to make the room darker by putting up a blanket that may help otherwise there is not a lot you can do to make them sleep later. Good Luck T.

You are very luck that she sleeps until 7:00 a.m.!

As others have mentioned, really the only 2 things you can do is push back her bedtime and try to make her room as dark as possible. They do make shades that completely block out the light; I had a friend who worked 3rd shift who had them, but I don't know where to buy them.

7 a.m. sounds wonderful, my daughter wakes up between 6-6:30 everyday. I've tried everything to get her to sleep later (earlier bedtimes, later bedtimes, shorter naps) nothing I could do to get her to sleep longer. Hate to say it I think it's just the time she is waking up now.. it could always change, but I think it will probably be something that she will do on her own.

My daughter is the same way...however, she always has been...it isn't anything new. If I am lucky, sometimes she will sleep till 7:30. When she wakes up now (she is 3) she just plays in the toy room quietly (right across from my bedroom) till I get up. (Only on weekends since I have a son in school too)

I feel your pain, that is how I operate as well. I am a night owl who gets stuff done, and sleeps in.

Unfortunately, I don't know if it will change! It may since it is a new thing, but nothing I did got my daughter to sleep later. I just had to come up with something that worked for both of us. Is there a TV in your room? Maybe you could turn on cartoons quietly and try to snag another 1/2 hr to hour rest while she watches. Good luck to you!