Why Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub “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. Do you enjoy the show? The check us out on: Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pbsoriginofe... Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything 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/la-oe-reiss-sleep-alone-20170324-story.html Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World Benjamin Reiss https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-history-sharing-bed If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home Lucy Worsley https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-abstract/23/3/275/359439/Together-and-Apart-Twin-Beds-Domestic-Hygiene-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/more-couples-opting-to-sleep-in-separate-beds-s

Published 2018-01-16 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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