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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Same thing different taste

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BstMode 14

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

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!

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BstMode 14

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!

And that the police box is bigger on the inside!

mariri9206 32

Sure hope he's ready for a lifetime of running.

And to be prepared for aliens and danger and rescuing people!

He'll always be a (little) mad man with a box.

I came to comment about how he must buy a TARDIS and behold the other whovians already best me here

let him watch highlander and tell him that's his secret grandpa

singlwforlife 22

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!

Well, figurately we are time travellers. We only go by the speed the time is passing for us right now from one point to the other... (or so I heard).

F No ones life here, this seems pretty hilarious. I can imagine someone saying to a kid "So, in spring we travel an hour into the future, and in fall, we travel an hour into the past." :D

That sounds way cooler than the truth though, "yeah I changed the clock cause...well idk somebody said it was a good idea."

Right, I think the OP should just jet him have his imagination..

I had something similar happen to me. I once tried to explain that I'd built a time machine to my friend, and now he thinks I've made a car that accounts for daylight saving times when driven fast enough.

Stretch this out as long as possible. It would be the greatest practical joke ever if you could convince him that you're time travelers until he's in middle or high school (I'd advise telling him that nobody else can ever know or it could upset the balance of time. That'll keep others from telling him the truth).

But if he can't tell others, what's the point? Half the fun of practical jokes like that is watching them try to convince other people that it's true.

This is a good thing, use your powers responsibly