Figure 1.-- Quite a few go to bed a good bit earlier than at home. This is something the younger children in particular take a while to get used to. Of course parents have a wide range of rules and expectations about bed time vor the children. But for the most part the children are used to going to bed later than school bed times, in some cases a good bit later. |
Quite a few go to bed a good bit earlier than at home. This is something the younger children in particular take a while to get used to. Of course parents have a wide range of rules and expectations about bed time vor the children. But for the most part the children are used to going to bed later thn school bed times, in some cases a good bit later. And at home there is the constant distraction of television. And most of the children have computers and other divrsions in their bed rooms that can deaw their attention at night. The children while not at first accustomed to such early bed times, quickly adjust. Most are tired enough after the days activities that they quickly fall asleep after lights out.
When I was eight, my mother used to say that I had to be in bed by eight, or the bogey-man would seek me, so, to be on the safe side, I wet to bed at the chosen time. As I got older my bedtime got later, till I eventually went to Bramcote, where yourvmother does not decide on what time you go to bed. Rupert Bettison and I had a few mock fights with slippers and dressing-gown cords, trying to tie each other up in sophisticated knots. But now, as I am a dormitory prefect myself I have had to stop all this. -- Robert Hare, 13.6
At home I go to bed at about 10 o'clock. This is because I can get up later in the morning. Uually I spend most of the evening at home watching television or playing on the computer. My mum always says that I will wake up with square eyes. We are allowed to read for about half-an-hour. This time is usually spent throwing slippers around and generally causing havoc. If we do get sent out and the headmaster catces us, it's usually the slipper, but if he is in a good mood we only get warning. If, on the other hand, Mr. Flower catches us, we usually get a run in the morning, or if he is feeling nasty we get an essay. -- Henry Lamb, 13.2
The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1984.
