‘Genius’ parenting hack lets kids celebrate New Year’s Eve — without being up past bedtime
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Let the countdown to bedtime begin!
Clever parents have devised a New Year’s Eve hack that allows kids to partake in festivities to ring in 2025 without staying up too late.
“Just your reminder that you can watch the fake countdown to New Year’s on Netflix with the kids and be in bed by 8 p.m.,” one mom wrote on TikTok.
Meanwhile, another showed herself changing the clocks from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. to simulate the clock striking 12 and turning on a clip of a previous ball drop.
“Set your clocks ahead to 11:59 so the kids think the ball is about to drop,” one parent wrote on TikTok as she turned on the prior year’s Times Square footage.
“They will never know and be in bed by 8 p.m.!”
One set of parents, however, threw an entire living room party for their kids — complete with cake, balloons, hats and noisemakers — at 6:30 p.m. as a faux countdown played on the TV.
“If you want to celebrate NYE with your kids but be in bed watching Netflix by 9 p.m., then try this,” they wrote in the video’s caption. “This was actually the best New Year’s Eve party we could have ever asked for, and it all happened before 7:30 p.m.”
While the hack has been touted by parents on social media for years, viewers still hailed it as “genius.”
“I did this last year for everyone I know with children; we watched the ball drop at 6, all the clocks were changed, food was eaten, and everyone was gone by 8,” one parent wrote in the comments.
“I’m still mad at my parents for doing this to me,” quipped another, whose caretakers were ahead of their time.
One mom said it was a great way “to enjoy the festivities together and still get the little ones to bed at a reasonable hour” on Instagram
“It’s the perfect way to make new memories while keeping the evening enjoyable for everyone — it’s a win-win,” she wrote.
“When my kids were young I’d change the clock on the microwave by a couple hours and have them check that time,” one person wrote in an old Reddit post. “Little suckers celebrated at 10 p.m. for years and never had a clue.”
However, not all kids are so easily duped.
“We got away with that last year by just playing the YouTube stream of live countdowns across the globe,” one Redditor said. “We picked one as ‘ours’ when we were ready for them to go to bed.
“This year they aren’t buying it … “
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