# Do you remember your bedtime as a kid?

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**Created:** [June 3, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-your-bedtime-as-a-kid/584164 "2011-06-03T03:24:39Z")\
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I’m pretty sure it was 8:00 pm when I was very young, like kindergarten.

It must have gotten pushed back to 9:00 when I got a bit older, because I remember being able to watch The Cosby Show, but when Cheers came on it was time for bed.

By the time I was in high school, or maybe middle school, it had gotten moved to 10:00, because I could watch Friends and Seinfeld, and pretty much the whole Must See TV lineup. I remember when I was probably a junior or senior in high school I started staying up until 11:00 to watch ER on Thursday nights, but most nights I went to bed at 10:00. I think by that point my parents didn’t really care when I went to bed.

Yeah, my memories of my bedtime is based on which NBC shows I was able to watch. I really do have a distinct memory that when I was in elementary school Cheers meant bedtime.

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