The battle for sleep has always been there regardless of generation and with each generation of parents holding some part of popular culture responsible for that reluctance to get to bed and having got there, to stay asleep.
It's quite possible that with the reduction at least over here of house sizes, there has been more of a push for many children's toys and effects to be moved into the bedroom so in some ways it becomes an entertainments room that you sleep in so that you're getting that switch off you did when we were "It's time for a bath and bed" even if things may of been harder and perhaps you shared a bed as well as the room with at least one other sibling.
I grew up with blankets in what was our icicle covered window in the winter bedroom whose amounts were regulated to the season and being expected having being given a pile of them to make owns one bed.
If that wasn't enough then that handiwork would be inspected apart from the general state of your room and your behind would know it if indeed it was a state.
Sometimes I do miss that ability to tailor the bed linen to the weather being the sort who gets warm very quickly rather than having all or nothing.
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