How to Adjust Your Child’s Sleep Schedule for Daylight Saving Time

 How to modify your children's sleep pattern for the transition to daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time concludes on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2 a.m., and sleep medicine experts from Children's Health in Dallas provide strategies to help maintain your child's natural body clock.

Alter your children's sleep routines by having them retire 20 minutes later each evening until Sunday.

Professionals indicate that the three essential elements of a conducive sleep setting are a cool, dark, and tranquil bedroom.

 A sleep medicine authority and pediatric pulmonologist at Children's Health Dallas, advises ensuring that your child's gadgets, such as smartphones and tablets, are powered down one hour prior to bedtime.

"Returning to the ideal sleep ambiance of being cool, dark, and silent, electronic devices breach two of those three conditions. They produce light, which means they aren't dark, and they generate sound. Therefore, they are not quiet, and specifically, we know that the blue light wavelength is the type of light that disrupts sleep onset and inhibits melatonin production from the brain.