Hannah Kent

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Australian Writer

Louise Brown

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

English Celebrity

Demian Bichir

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Mexican Actor

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

American Author

Guillermo del Toro

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

Mexican Director

Steve Carell

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

American Actor

Bart Millard

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

American Musician

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

American Writer

Mark Harmon

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

Sydney Smith

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

English Clergyman

Understanding 'bedtime' involves knowing why a regular sleep schedule is emphasized for health.

Routine Importance

Bedtime can vary widely in different cultures, affecting when social events are planned.

Cultural Variances

The recommended bedtime often changes with age, earlier for kids and varying for adults.

Age Dependent

 The data showed that those children who were going to bed at different times were more likely to have behavioral problems, and then those that switched to having regular bedtimes often showed an improvement in behavior, and that was really crucial, because it suggested it was the bedtime routines that were really helping things get better for those kids.

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 she can now play, really play, with my sons, with her grandsons, in the real world with his real toys. I could imagine grandmothers being able to do social-plays with their granddaughters, with their friends, and to be able to share all kinds of other activities around the house, like sharing a bedtime story. And through this technology,

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 and it affects whether they choke or thrive. But just as we can put limits on others, we can take them off. My research team and I have shown that when we help parents do fun math activities with their kids -- rather than, say, just doing bedtime stories or bedtime reading, they do bedtime math,

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 I do everything in my power to protect this time so that I can be home by then to spend quality time with my children, asking them about their day, checking up on homework, reading them a bedtime story and giving them lots of kisses and cuddles. If I'm traveling, in whatever the time zone,

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 say yes her it wasn't your money I had a little bit of money in my pocket from that World Cup I said yes we made the Troya bedtime story with her friends and in also an area of the inner city known as trival people come there all the time to have their pictures taken some of

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 Fortunately, there are ways to break the cycle of sleeplessness. Managing the stress that leads to hyperarousal is one of our best-understood treatments for insomnia, and good sleep practices can help rebuild your relationship with bedtime.

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 and hoping that our prayers would be answered and I would never have to tell them that that knight, who had fought so bravely, was done fighting and could rest now, forever. Fortunately, I never did have to finish that bedtime story.

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 rolling around with the boys then a roll in the dirt will do just as well but it's bedtime which says so much about how little Simba has fitted into life with his new family of people and elephants he's so attached to no job

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 here I've got my flip-flops and backpack I keep all my cameras in here bedtime reading my gps and sunglasses look over here to the closet here are my life preservers and say here I got my clothes

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 They answered my phone. They argued with my wife for me, and they read my son bedtime stories. It was the best month of my life, because I just sat back and I read books and watched movies.

Bedtime

Routine Importance

Cultural Variances

Age Dependent

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