Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says modern parenting has given rise to farcical bedtime rituals that would never have been tolerated when he was a child.
The 59-year-old was speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in the United States when he made the quirky observations.
Seinfeld said tucking his three kids - age eight, 10 and 13 - into bed is an unnecessarily complicated process.
"The bedtime routine for my kids is like this Royal Coronation Jubilee Centennial of rinsing and plaque and dental appliances and the stuffed animal semi-circle of emotional support," he joked.
"And I've gotta read eight different moron books. You know what my bedtime story was when I was a kid? Darkness."
The comedian told Fallon, who became a dad for the first time last year, that he preferred the way his parents did it.
"When we were kids, our parents didn't give a damn about us," he quipped.
"They didn't even know our names."
Modern parenting, he said, is much too elaborate.
"I am not, you know, a great believer in our style of parenting... Anybody that has kids now, I just think we're too into it."
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