"Bedtime is the real time-suck. Since our kids now share a room, our project for the last few months has been putting them down at the same time, to consolidate these parallel chores into one."
"Growing up with 10 siblings, staggered bedtimes were holy writ; stratified to a granular degree, and ruthlessly enforced as a tiny sliver of token separation."
"To stay up past that point, you basically had to be old enough to join the army, and such elders within our family governed those below like marines."
"It's ironic that having chafed against this system as a child, I now consider it sacrosanct."
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