{"id":72700,"date":"2011-11-28T01:42:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72700\/bedtime-judge\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T01:42:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T06:42:56","slug":"bedtime-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/72700\/bedtime-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime? Who am I to judge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that’s kind of weird about my upstairs neighbors: how they do, or do not, discipline their children.\u00a0 Now, I should preface this by noting that ever since I went to them and asked them to keep their 5 and 2 years old’s from hanging out at my ground floor bedroom window and asking me, “Whatchya doin?!?”, I have not once been bothered by inquisitive children.<\/font><\/p>\n

In some ways, I attribute that more to the sophistication of the 5 year old who heard me explain to Papa how I needed privacy, etc. <\/font><\/p>\n

It’s 1 AM… I’m getting ready to go to bed… I hear stomping and screaming from upstairs.\u00a0 The children are running around, emitting banshee shrieks, out of control… At One in the Freekin Morning!! <\/font><\/p>\n

I can’t say I have a conscious memory of what my bedtime was when I was five years old.\u00a0 Later in my childhood, I remember it was nine.\u00a0 Even when I was an adolescent, there was an 11 PM bedtime.\u00a0 I remember this well, because as an early teen, I got chased out of theliving room by Dad several times when I tried to sneakily watch the 11:30 PM episode of Star Trek on Channel 44. Depriving an adolescent of Star Trek?? Child abuse!!
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Even as I write this, on a school night, at 10:26 PM PT, I can hear intermittent elephantine trampling noises and banshee-like screaming children coming from upstairs. <\/font><\/p>\n

Does this bother me?\u00a0 In and of itself, no.\u00a0 Instead, it’s more of a metaphysical annoyance.\u00a0 We all judge how other people raise their children based upon how we were ourselves were raise<\/strong>d.\u00a0 Now, you might think that letting 5 year olds run and scream at 1 AM is universally and inherently wrong<\/em>.\u00a0 Bad for the kids. Bad parenting.\u00a0 I know these thoughts cross my mind as I hear the miniature elephant herd trampling overhead. <\/font><\/p>\n

Well, how many aspects of how I was raised, which was perfectly, BTW, would have been unacceptable in the Victorian age?\u00a0 How many aspects of accepted parenting in Asia or Africa would be frowned upon by western culture as either being too permissive or too strict?<\/font><\/p>\n

I can’t say they’ve interfered with my sleep.\u00a0 Who am I to judge my neighbors for letting their kids stay up until 1 in the morning?
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