Please, please make your kids sleep.
Focus on it. Demonstrate it. Prioritize it.
Our kids and teens are collapsing under a never-before-in-human-history lack of sleep.
Cancel things on the calendar.
Slow down.
Hang out with your kids.
Be bored.
Prioritize your kids and teens
Dr. John Delony
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- Mental & Emotional Health, Marriage & Relationships
- PhD in Counseling
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- Put your phone down when your partner is speaking to you. Phone down. Eyes up. Your marriage is more important than the metal box in your hand. Delony
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- Between the Epstein nonsense, the floods, Al threats, and economic pundits screaming at each other, I reached my breaking point. I can't control any of the above things. None of them. So I turned off all the media and got to work. I called real people who are currently working
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- Husbands: Stoping whining about your wife not putting gas in the car. Just go fill it up. I know you work hard. I know you're tired. I know she may not appreciate you in the way you think she should. Just go do the next right thing anyway. Fill up her car with gas, and move
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- I promise you, on your last day, you won't call out your net worth. You won't call out that your business was voted โBest in Areaโ by a local radio station. You won't call out your GPA or number of social media followers, or credit score. You will reach out to your wife, or


