Being sent to bed before dark

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Did anyone used to get upset when they be sent to bed when it still be daylight?



I can remember being six years old and my mother started to act different one day. She started to say "Eight thirty" and get my brothers and I ready for bed but something was wrong. It was still daylight, why was she sending us to bed when it wasn't bedtime yet?
She give us our bath and put my brothers in their pajamas and read us a story and it be lights out. It always bugged me because it was still daylight. I had always gone to bed when it be dark out so I learned dark means bedtime and daylight means up. But then one day it changes so I thought my mother was going crazy. She even said the sun was staying up too long and I didn't believe her. I still thought she was crazy.

I went to school and told my teacher about my mother going crazy and told her why. She said "Your mother isn't going crazy, the sun is staying up too long."
That surprised me because even my own teacher was crazy too. I just could not understand how can a sun stay up too long.


Back then I couldn't tell time and I didn't know days got longer and shorter. I did not know about earth and our planet and changed directions so it makes days longer and shorter.
reason why my mother sent me to bed when it still be daylight was because I had school the next day. before I went to PM school so I didn't need to go to bed early but because I was in school full day now, I had to go to bed early because I had to get up early too for school. My mother sent my brothers to bed early too to make it not confusing for me.

Actually, they are crazy.
Industrial-age culture wants our internal clocks reset
in conformance with the factory.
And they put daylight savings time on top of that.
In the winter, when you want to hibernate, they call it
"winter depression," as though it's a disease.
What do you do when the whole world is crazy?

Where I'm from there is daylight non-stop for around 3 months in the summer and completely dark for a couple of months in the winter. Growing up with such extremes I never connected daylight to "awake time" and dark to "bed time". Before I learned how to use a clock I used dinner time and the TV schedule to tell what time it was. We had dinner, then the evening news started and after the evening news were over I had to get ready for bed time.

That's another example of the-whole-world-is-crazy: TV.
Personally, I think that letting anyone under the age of eight watch the 6:00 news is child abuse. I've always had a vague notion along these lines, but Rodney King (1991) got me to put it in words. How can anyone think that letting a child watch that stuff is good?
And all the other shows -- offensive and mindless as they are, the commercials are the worst part. They warp the mind. Even when a show pretends to be educational, if you fill it with these sick commercials, it's like drowning a granola bar in sugar and fat. Subliminal seduction is supposed to be illegal, but nobody cares any more.

I'm all for restoring the First Amendment. I don't want any censorship for adults. But kids should be protected. People used to know better than to burden little kids with unnecessary information. They don't process it the way we do, and what they see is not the truth.

I'm done for now. Just felt like ranting for a minute.

It's a famous tactic used by young parents who are still sexually active. They do that so they can have sex in their own bedroom without the risk of being heard or peeked or annoyed or asked by kids why the hell they are locking their door .

So probably your mom was doing that so your mom and dad can ...you know...

Hehe. Yeah, it's not just young parents...

My mother was in her late thirties when she was sending my brothers and I to bed at 8:30.

I did not know what "eight thirty" meant. After a while I figured out those two numbers meant, "Time for bed." But I couldn't understand why she was calling bedtime "eight thirty."


I didn't actually figure out why until I learned about time. She was referring to the time on the clock.

8:30= bedtime for you = sex time for us! :lol

I don't remember exact times, but I had a bedtime until high school. When I was young (like 7 or 8), it was early. It sucked so bad to have to go to bed when the other kids are still outside playing.
My parents were in their early 40's, since we seem to be mentioning ages, and my sister was 1 or 2 at the time.

My son and I have to wake up at 5:30AM to get him to school, and me to work. We live in Florida, so it's still daytime when I send him to bed. Oh well, it's 7:30 - 8, no matter what time of the year it is. Good opportunity to learn basic astronomy and geography. He needs more sleep than I do.

My boyfriend used to get mad as a kid. He also didn't understand about the sun staying up too long and about time. His father would send all his kids to bed and my boyfriend would kick his feet, etc. He even asked why did he have to go to bed and he would say, "Because I said so." Never gave him a logical answer. If he was caught out of bed, he would get spanked. His mother never sent them to bed, she had her husband do it because he was better at it.

yes I hated that crap about going to bed at 8 PM when the sun was still up. Yes I knew of the solstices and the like when younger but it still was annoying...thankfully that's MANY YEARS (at least 5 or 6) behind me!

I go to bed all the time during the daylight in the summer

Thats because the daylight doesnt go away in the middle of the summer where I live :b. The sun dips just below the horizon and comes right back up. Alaska for the win.

On another note, in the winter we have terribly short days, but I like that because I get to look at the stars more.

I've also had a very strange sleep schedule for years, usually going to bed around 4-5 am, getting up at 12 pm or not going to sleep at all.

As a kid I was pretty lucky and didn't have to go to bed until 10:30.

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