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Category: Sleep

Why Young Children Protest Bedtime: Evolutionary Mismatch

Peter Gray

Originally published on PsychologyToday.com at my blog, “Freedom to Learn“. Infants and young children in our culture regularly protest going to bed.  They make all sorts of excuses. They say they are not tired, when in fact they obviously are tired. They say they are hungry, or thirsty, or need…

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