Do your kids have a regular bedtime, like Sasha and Malia Obama? (The
first kids, aged seven and ten, are in bed by eight p.m., according to
reports.) Or do they just keep going and going, exhausted little
energizer bunnies, till late into the night? Growing up in the
freewheeling 70s, I remember being smug about my family's lack of set
bedtimes -- and I remember falling asleep in school all the time. In
fact, my bedtime-free childhood seemed less and less fun as I got
older, leading to mornings of scrambling out of bed, late as usual, and
arriving at high school (college, work) with wacky hair and bleary
eyes.
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