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That can be a real mess, especially for working parents. You can't leave a 6 year old alone in the house while you go off to work, and even a middle schooler might have trouble getting to school on time with no one around to kick his butt out the door. I really hate DST; I'd be OK with it starting May 1, when it starts staying light longer anyway. Today is the vernal equinox, an equal # of dark and light hours. I don't think it's real useful until the days (sunlight) lengthen.
A 6-year-old shouldn't be going to the school bus stop unsupervised to begin with. I thought the issue was with children going to the school bus stop unsupervised? If a child is young enough that they need to be supervised, the darkness shouldn't be an issue. If they are old enough to walk to the bus stop on their own, then they are old enough to get ready for school on their own. JMO.
I hate it, while it is nice to have more daylight after work, waking up in the dark is not appealing, and very difficult.
i think we should just have one time and keep it that same all years round. but that is man for ya, we have to make everything difficult for ourselves.
what energy are you saving anyway, you either use it in the morning or the night.
I don't know why, but I have the strangest feeling that abolishing something that's largely unnecessary--Daylight Savings Time and the Electoral College come to mind--isn't going to happen without a huge and very acrimonious battle.
When I was a kid, they used to tell us in school that Daylight Savings Time had something to do with farmers and bringing in their crops. Having been born and raised in a big city, this never made sense to me. (Why not just let the farmers mess around with their clocks twice a year, and leave the rest of us alone?) There also aren't anywhere near as many farmers now as there were in the 1930s. But, DST hangs on like a sponging relative.
A 6-year-old shouldn't be going to the school bus stop unsupervised to begin with. I thought the issue was with children going to the school bus stop unsupervised? If a child is young enough that they need to be supervised, the darkness shouldn't be an issue. If they are old enough to walk to the bus stop on their own, then they are old enough to get ready for school on their own. JMO.
Well, if the bus stop is across the street, as ours was, a 6 year old can go there independently, if it's light outside. Do you think it's OK for a teen to walk to the bus stop in the dark?
I hate it, while it is nice to have more daylight after work, waking up in the dark is not appealing, and very difficult.
i think we should just have one time and keep it that same all years round. but that is man for ya, we have to make everything difficult for ourselves.
what energy are you saving anyway, you either use it in the morning or the night.
Well it saves energy because some people don't wake up early enough that they still are waking up to light even after the time change (7 AM or after). To those who say they hate daylight savings time, would they be happy with an early sunrise and sunset in the summer? Where I live, in June, if there was no daylight savings time, the sun would rise at about 4:15 and set at 7:30. Seems like a waste to me.
I understand that waking up in the dark is irritating but i don't think I'd mind it too much. Many when I wake up I'm not doing much that requires daylight; showering, getting ready, breakfast. Much rather have the daylight later in the day. And when I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere in the morning, I've enjoyed the feeling of waking up a bit before sunrise and seeing the day shift from twilight to morning. It's harder to do that when the sunrise is very early, like 5 something AM.
Anyhow, I hate coming home in the dark. The November time change sucks, especially for the times I want to bike back home. Even before the time change this March the sun was setting slightly before 6 PM, so I often still got home in almost darkness.
Lol, well maybe parents should start being parents--but that's another issue for another thread!
How many kids do you have again?
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