Vacation Time Change and Sleep Schedule

We've done this alot, and the thing I usually "plan" to do doesn't happen, lol! In general, I do let my little ones stay up later when we are visiting family anyway, because they want to stay up with their older cousins. So, according to their little bodies, they are usually going to bed at the "regular time". Our problem is that they often don't sleep any later in the morning, usually because it's light out, or they hear other people up. What I've needed to do and plan to do on our trip in a few weeks, is to make sure that at least every other day, my kids have quite, downtime, if not a nap in the afternoon. Cuz we always have meltdowns. My older kids are 3 & 5 and they will be having quiet book ready time either on their own or with me as many afternoons as I can swing it. My baby is young enough where he'll sleep whenever and wherever he wants anyway! Good luck!

Every time we travel it is hard to keep on a good sleep schedule and get kids to fall asleep without their normal routine. Usually when we travel from Denver to the Eastern time zone, we keep the kids on mountain time so the kids go to bed at 9 or 9:30. Since they usually are up at 6, we don't feel like they lose too much of the morning. Will your kids sleep in the car? My trick is to plan longer car rides around nap time since my kids will always sleep in the car if they are tired. Good luck!
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We go back East from Denver regularly, and I always keep my kids on Mountain Time - since they are usually up between 6:30 and 8, that's just 8:30 back East - not too late. Then they go to bed 10 pm, which matches their 8 pm bedtime at home.

We travel a lot and we just live life where we are, but build required rest times in. Preferably sleeping, although, usually not. We just find that coming home is usually harder because we don't have all the excitement to wear them out anymore. GL! Have fun!

I've always been O. for the old "push through the tiredness the first day until complete exhaustion kicks in & they pass out that night, then they'll sleep later that next morning and basically be back on schedule" theory of dealing with vacation/timechange/etc. Good luck!

We just did this exact same thing- ten days on the East Coast. We stuck more or less to our same schedule and didn't change for the time zone. So my four years olds went to bed at 9:30 and woke up at 9 instead of 7:30 to 7. Theyre at the age where they rarely nap, but I still tried while on vacation and they napped twice during the two week trip. The other days nap became a one gour quiet time in the bedroom.

Good luck!