Manitoba daylight saving time: Tips for helping kids during time change [Video]

With daylight saving time coming to an end for the year, Manitobans will be turning back their clocks by one hour on Sunday morning.

This means dawn will come earlier in the morning and darkness will arrive sooner in the evening, which can disrupt the sleep routines of both kids and adults.

Pediatric sleep consultant Joleen Dilk Salyn said kids will likely still wake up at the time their bodies are used to, so if they typically get up at 7 a.m., they will rise at 6 a.m. with the time change.

“That is unfortunate for the parents,” she said in an interview with CTV Morning Live Winnipoeg on Thursday.

“It’s a little bit harder for us to readjust ourselves, and it’s harder for the little ones to get adjusted to that new time.”

To prepare for the change, Dilk Salyn suggests moving your child’s schedule forward 15 minutes each …