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bedtime
Bedtime (also called putting to bed or tucking in) is a ritual part of parenting to help children feel more secure,〔 and become accustomed to a more rigid schedule of sleep than they might prefer. It may involve bedtime stories, children's songs, nursery rhymes, bed-making and getting children to change into nightwear. In some religious households prayers are said shortly before going to bed.〔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〕
In adult use, the term means simply "time for bed", similar to curfew, as in "It's past my bedtime". Some people are accustomed to drinking a nightcap or herbal tea at bedtime.
==Synonyms==
In boarding schools and on trips or holidays that involve young people, the equivalent of bedtime is ''lights out'' or ''lights-out''; a term also used in prisons, hospitals, in the military, and in sleep research.
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