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“Go To Your Room!” might be the most well known parental demand in America, but why do kids have their own sleeping area at all? It's a good question. Because while a bedroom might just seem like a “normal” thing for people who can afford a certain amount of living space, the history of separate sleeping spaces is actually the weird result of European colonialism, standardized clocks, Victorian modesty and post-war Suburban expansion.
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Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge
Graphics By: Noelle Smith
Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber
Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)


Works Cited:
On Kids Rooms and Sleeping Practices Across Cultures:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/...
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World Benjamin Reiss
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home Lucy Worsley
https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/more-co...
http://drcolleencarney.com/
Sleep Around the World: anthropological perspectives edited by Katie Glaskin and Richard Chenhall.
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