Will you read the children a 'bedtime story'? [=a story that is read or told to children when they go to bed]
The children are still up? It's way past their 'bedtimes'.
It's almost 'bedtime'.
(..) I've told you a thousand facts, Will. That's what I do, I tell stories! You tell... lies, Dad. You tell amusing lies. Stories are what you tell a -year-old at bedtime. They're not elaborate mythologies that you maintain... ...when your son is and and and . And I believed you. (..)2003 Big Fish