When I was a teen, school started at 8:30 and went on until 3:30. This meant I had to be on the bus at 8:10 and we didn’t wake up until 7 to get showered, have a hot leisurely breakfast, do hair and makeup, and have a few minutes at the bus stop to compare homework and boys.
When my kids were in high school a couple of years ago, they had to be at the bus stop at 6:20. This meant getting up no later than 5:30. Which means the whole family had to go to bed early, since the noise of one or two people getting up, showering, and preparing breakfast in the darkness would wake everybody up. So we all had to be in bed by ten if we were going to get seven hours of sleep. That almost never happened—there is simply too much to do after work in the evening. We were ALL sleep-deprived and cranky during the school year. I hated it.
“We were ALL sleep-deprived and cranky during the school year.”
It’s the morning people. They must be stopped.