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Trying a little something new with your eight-year-old son's bedtime routine Virginia.

It doesn't sound like it was very successful.

What exactly were you trying and how did it fail?

Well, I think breaking a habit is always going to be hard.

We just kind of at bedtime have always let him be on his phone, be on his iPad,

crawl in bed and watch videos or scroll through to,

not Tik-Tok.

He does YouTube.

Okay.

But we were kind of liberal with, you know, letting him do whatever before bed.

And then you were reading some stories about how it can be linked to anxiety.

And he does have anxiety.

Like he has to, you know, do things to deal with his anxiety.

And so I, last week on Thursday and Friday started it with him where you know when it's time

for bed we put all the electronics away you brush your teeth you get ready for bed you

crawl in bed and we read a story yes okay instead of looking at a

screen and the first night was tears and anger what story did you read him? Well he didn't want to read. He wanted his

phone. He wanted to do what he's been doing which was you know put himself to sleep by the light of the blue phone

light yeah that blue light supposedly wakes up your brain right and I I don't

want that I want him to relax his brain and get a little reading in and be normal and not be filled with anxiety.

And so the first night went rough. Second night it was a little better.

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