Bedtime

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Bedtime (also called putting to bed or tucking in) is a ritual part of parenting to help children feel more secure,^[1] and become accustomed to a more rigid schedule of sleep than they might prefer. It may involve bedtime stories, children's songs, nursery rhymes, bed-making and getting children to change into nightwear. In some religious households prayers are said shortly before going to bed.^[2]

In adult use, the term means simply "time for bed", similar to curfew, as in "It's past my bedtime". Some people are accustomed to drinking a nightcap or herbal tea at bedtime.

Synonyms

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In boarding schools and on trips or holidays that involve young people, the equivalent of bedtime is lights out or lights-out; a term also used in prisons, hospitals, in the military, and in sleep research.

References

↑ Dr Scoresby. "Winning the bedtime battle". Archived from the original on 20 August 2000.
↑ A Scottish prayer: "I am going now into the sleep, / Be it that I in health shall wake; / If death be to me in deathly sleep, / Be it that in thine own arm's keep, / O God of grace, to new life I wake; / O be it in thy dear arm's keep, / O God of grace, that I shall awake!" (from Poems of the Western Highlanders, 1900; in The Oxford Book of Prayer, general editor: George Appleton. Oxford University Press; no. 325 at p. 101

Psychophysiology: Sleep and sleep disorders (F51 and G47 / 307.4 and 327)

Sleep stages

Brain waves

Sleep
disorders

Dyssomnia	Hypersomnia Insomnia Kleine–Levin syndrome Narcolepsy Sleep apnea Central hypoventilation syndrome Obesity hypoventilation syndrome Sleep state misperception

Circadian rhythm disorder	Advanced sleep phase disorder Delayed sleep phase disorder Irregular sleep–wake rhythm Jet lag Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder Shift work sleep disorder

Parasomnia	Catathrenia Night terror Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder Sleepwalking Somniloquy

Other	Bruxism Night eating syndrome Nocturia Nocturnal myoclonus

Benign
phenomena

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topics

¹ Not a sleep disorder.

Parenting

Types	Adoptive Alloparenting Complex family Coparenting Foster care Kommune 1 LGBT Matrifocal family Noncustodial Nuclear family Orphaned Shared Single parent Blended family Surrogacy In loco parentis

Theories · Areas	Attachment theory Applied behavior analysis Behaviorism Child development Cognitive development Developmental psychology Human development Love Maternal bond Nature versus nurture Parental investment Paternal bond Pediatrics Social psychology

Styles	Attachment parenting Concerted cultivation Gatekeeper parent Helicopter parent Nurturant parenting Slow parenting Soccer mom Strict father model Taking Children Seriously Work at home parent

Techniques	After-school activity Allowance Bedtime Child care Co-sleeping Homeschooling Latchkey kid Parent Management Training Play (date) Role model Spoiled child Television Toy (educational)

Discipline	Blanket training Corporal punishment in the home Curfew Grounding Tactical ignoring Time-out

Abuse	Child abandonment Child abuse Child labour Child neglect Cinderella effect Incest Narcissistic parent Parental abuse by children Parental alienation

Legal and social aspects	Child support Cost of raising a child Marriage Parental responsibility Deadbeat parent Paternity Disownment

Experts	T. Berry Brazelton Tanya Byron Rudolf Dreikurs David Elkind Jo Frost Haim Ginott Thomas Gordon Alan E. Kazdin Truby King Annette Lareau Penelope Leach Madeline Levine William Sears B. F. Skinner Benjamin Spock Baby and Child Care

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Bedtime

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