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the nightly negotiation where children become lawyers and parents lose every appeal.
means The time at which one goes, or is expected to go, to bed for the night.
from A plain English compound, bolting together "bed" (Old English bedd, the place where you sleep) and "time" (Old English tima, a stretch or appointed moment). Both halves are old Germanic stock, but joining them into "bedtime" is a comparatively later move — the kind of self-explaining word English builds endlessly, like "daytime" and "mealtime." No mystery in the parts; the mystery is only ever in getting anyone to honor the appointment.
- sleep debt
- Lost sleep accumulates and cannot be fully repaid.
- second wind
- Overtired kids get wired, not sleepy, from stress hormones.
- body clock
- Teens are biologically programmed to fall asleep later.
- blue light
- Screens suppress melatonin, tricking brains into thinking it's daytime.
- warm trick
- Cooling skin after a warm bath triggers sleepiness.
for instance
blue's clues bedtime — nickelodeon show segment where steve helps blue get ready for sleep, aired 1996-2006