> having free time after you put your children to bed, or watching one of the 17 Netflix shows everyone is talking about

These are two things that are not a big sacrifice for me. But honestly, I am continually baffled by posts that insinuate that waking up at 5:30 or 6:00 is some bizarre ritual. Since the quote mentions children, I will just throw out that a school start time of 8:00 generally means having to leave for school before 7:30, which makes a 6:00 alarm pretty necessary if you want to start off with a good breakfast.

We have lights out by 10PM (with the occasional homework mandated exemption) and everyone is up by 6AM after eight hours of sleep. This has never once seemed like an unusual schedule to keep.