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November 3, 2025

How to Adjust Your Kids Sleep Schedule for Daylight Savings in 15 Minute Increments

Daylight savings just ended so this post is coming exactly too late. But I was talking to a friend about how we just adjust 15 minutes per day, which is quite easy. She was saying “oh I wish I had that kind of foresight.” But we were talking Friday evening, and daylight savings didn’t end until Sunday, so there was plenty of time for adjustment. So since people don’t seem to realize that, here is the very simple plan for ending daylight savings:

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Lets say your kids bedtime is at 8pm (I wish) then

  • On Friday go to bed 15 minutes late, 8:15pm
  • On Saturday go to bed 30 minutes late, 8:30pm
  • On Sunday go to bed 15 minutes early, 7:45pm
  • On Monday go to bed at your usual time, 8pm

And with that you’re done. If you realize too late and it’s Saturday already, you can just do 20 minute increments:

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September 16, 2023

Two Kids Put Me on a Two Sleep Schedule

I’m writing this at 2am, having already slept from 9pm to 1am. I will sleep again from 4am to 7am. This is apparently called “biphasic sleep”, which I first heard about in the 2022 article The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’. I had read that article with interest, because this has happened to me occasionally over the years: I’d fall asleep early, then wake up to spend a few hours restless before finally falling back asleep in the early morning hours. After reading that this used to be normal, I finally decided to just let it happen when it does, which is about two or three times a week.

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February 19, 2022

Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell The Cries Apart, and What to Do

I have twin daughters that just turned three months old. I decided to write up the list that I wish I had before they were born. Just reasons why they cry, how to tell the cries apart, and what to do in each case. Yes it’s hard to help babies because they cry for everything, but you can definitely tell the difference between an angry cry (“feed me”) or a pained cry (“I scratched myself”) or a sad cry. (“why did you wake me up?”) You can’t fix em all, but you can do a good amount.

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