As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

