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How does that compare to historical routines? Did teenagers and other school-age kids ever get to sleep in? I have a hard time imagining kids old enough to help
by silicon2401 6y ago
How does that compare to historical routines? Did teenagers and other school-age kids ever get to sleep in? I have a hard time imagining kids old enough to help with family work being allowed to sleep in until noon.
- 5cents 6y agoMaybe they helped at night when their parents were sleeping?
- MattGaiser 6y agoIs the 10K years or so that we have been farming enough to change our prior patterns of need?
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoEven that change isn't as great as we have with clocks and electric light. You don't often need to farm when it's dark out.
- shakna 6y agoHistorical routines are hard to compare against - because they weren't a day/night cycle like we have now. [0] A lot of kids may have been asleep at noon, like the Spanish siesta, equally, kids may have been involved in the midnight harvest, or caring for the fire. Things tended towards more of several smaller sleeping periods spread out over the entire day, and periods of activity at times that might feel strange now. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
- musingsole 6y agoYeah, nail on the head here. I'm pretty sure school schedules are more of an inheritance from the old world than they are a plan to free up parents for more labor. In the old world, school had to be fitted around a kid's work day, not their parents.
- watwut 6y agoNo, they were expected to wake up soon along with everybody.