Does Daylight Savings Really Save?

So we all (or most of us) turned our clocks back an hour this past weekend. Personally, I don't get it.

The number one irritant is that my two-year-old is still on EST summer time. So despite playing with her nap times and bedtimes, she is waking at her pre-daylight savings wake time. She will get 'on-time' but this is an irritant for her, and for her parents (listening to her call out for us at 5 a.m. instead of 6).

Number two, and this will likely rise to number one is this. We turn our clocks back to get more daylight, yet the 'extra' hour we get is gained when most of us are getting ready for work, and it'll be dark before we get home from work.

Personally, I'd rather it be dark in the a.m. and gain (keep?) that hour in the evening, so we can take the little one to the park or something. Why gain an hour of daylight at a time of the day when it is least needed? How does this save energy or give us more USEABLE daylight?

I don't get it and I wish we didn't turn back the clocks.