Bedtime
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Bedtime (also called putting to bed or tucking in) is a ritual part of
nursery rhymes, bed-making and getting children to change into nightwear. In some religious households, prayers are said shortly before going to bed.[3] Sleep training may be part of the bedtime ritual for babies and toddlers.[4]
In adult use, the term means simply "time for bed", similar to
nightcap or herbal tea at bedtime. Sleeping coaches are also used to help individuals reach their bedtime goals.[5] Researchers studying sleep are finding patterns revealing that cell phone use at night disturbs going to sleep at one's bedtime and achieving a good night's sleep.[6]
Synonyms
Look up lights out in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
In boarding schools and on trips or holidays that involve young people, the equivalent of bedtime is lights out or lights-out - this term is also used in prisons, hospitals, in the military, and in sleep research.
Newspapers
In the pre-digital newspaper era, a newspaper, usually daily, was "put to bed" when editorial work on the issue had formally ceased, the content was fixed, and printing could begin.
See also
References
- ^ Dr Scoresby. "Winning the bedtime battle". Archived from the original on 20 August 2000.
- PMID 19745760.
- ^ 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)
- ^ "Sleep Training Truths: What Science Can (And Can't) Tell Us About Crying it Out". NPR. July 15, 2019.
- S2CID 205887518.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Weir, Kristen (2017). "(Dis)Connected". Monitor on Psychology. 1 (43): 42.
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