Kids: Today, I did such a bad job explaining the recent change from...

By badmom - 06/11/2015 17:02 - Canada - Saint Catharines

Today, I did such a bad job explaining the recent change from daylight savings time, that my 5-year-old son is now convinced that we're time travellers. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/10/2021 08:00

Today, my partner and I spent the last 3 days transitioning our 19 month-olds bedtime by 15 minutes each day for daylight savings, only to find out we've been going the wrong way. FML

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By graciegold95 - 06/12/2014 16:10 - United States - San Francisco

Today, my daughter decided it'd be funny to change the time on my clock. My boss didn't think it was funny. FML

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By oink oink fuck off - 29/07/2012 18:49 - United Kingdom - Doncaster

Today, my son got to my great grandfather's old stopwatch, which had been valued at a very high sum, and broke it by twisting the hands in reverse. He says he was trying to time travel. FML

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By mommyopps - 26/03/2016 02:14 - United States - Madison Lake

Today, I'm beginning to regret explaining death to my 3-year-old son. We were at the supermarket when he looked at an elderly woman and loudly told her "You're gonna die soon!" FML

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By Anonymous - 13/03/2011 21:51 - United States

Today, I had to wait an hour in the awful rain for my mom to pick me up, because she didn't realize the clocks had gone forward already. FML

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By needagoodlaugh - 10/11/2016 01:58 - United States - West Linn

Today, after complaining about the clocks still being an hour ahead from daylights savings, my work finally changed the time on all the clocks in the building. Now all the clocks are two hours ahead. FML

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By sauve dino. - 25/03/2016 03:12 - France - Groslay

Today, I explained to my five year-old son that the dinosaurs were wiped out because of a meteorite that hit our planet. He replied, "They should've stood out of the way." FML

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By proudparent - 07/12/2009 05:07 - Canada

Today, my 5 year old son asked me to explain how he was born. After I told him I had a C-Section, he went to school and told everyone he was born at sea. I found out when the teacher called me. FML

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By Loser - 13/09/2016 12:10 - Germany - Neuburg

Today, following a 6-hour roundtrip after having lost both games from a baseball doubleheader, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my 4-year-old son was still up. After updating him on the day's results, he went off to bed with the words, "Good night, loser." FML

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By Anonymous - 30/07/2022 10:00 - Singapore - Singapore

Today, I was having trouble sleeping due to jet lag. I was finally sleepy and looking forward to a decent night of rest when my 4 year-old woke up and refused to stay in his room or try to rest. The next two hours involved him shouting at me, kicking me, and crying because he wanted Daddy, who is on a business trip. FML

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BstMode 14

Saturday 7 November 2015 1:22

Just tell him you guys are the last of the time lords and when he gets old enough you'll travel through time and space in a police box!

singlwforlife 22

Saturday 7 November 2015 1:26

Let him enjoy it! Now is the time to explore your imagination a little bit too! When the excitement of being a time traveler wears down, try to explain it again then. :) No harm there!

Comments

ZaiopePerSe 15

Saturday 7 November 2015 8:15

it's not like he'll belidve it for the rest of his life. He's give, let hom dream

worldclassrager 39

Saturday 7 November 2015 8:16

In away it is time travel...going back and going ahead

Mightytall 35

Saturday 7 November 2015 8:20

B... B... But we are! Twice every year, once in the spring we skip a whole hour forward. Nobody knows what happens in that hour. It's dark, it's lost... hopefully some day someone can figure out how to leave behind a recording device and find out what happens there. And once in the fall we get to skip back and relive a whole hour. But there is a problem with that one, it's not like rewinding and watching it all over... You can't screw up and then do over... so that one is also mean and brutal...

laden_swallow09 34

Saturday 7 November 2015 11:57

It's okay. Daylight Saving is an outdated practice, anyway.

lavapants 15

Saturday 7 November 2015 12:04

You convinced you son that you are time travelers and your nickname is badmom? What the hell is wrong with you? That's ******* awesome.

Heartbeat94 4

Saturday 7 November 2015 15:31

that is actually cool dude

GroupWorkSucks 15

Saturday 7 November 2015 18:02

OP rolled a 1.

Omniprism 14

Saturday 7 November 2015 18:10

This. Is awesome. And we are time travelers.

ViviMage 38

Saturday 7 November 2015 19:19

Benjamin Franklin suggested daylight savings so we could borrow an hour of sunlight in the evenings to limit the lighting at home, which were at the time oil lamps, tallow (animal fat) candles, beeswax candles, even whale oil, to reduce costs and increase productivity.