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Guaranteed Human.

And I'm Marrikewarm.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

How are you doing, Mary Catherine?

I'm good. I saw a survey the other day from the Institute of Family Studies that said that parents who have strict rules for their

kids on bedtime, screen time, and homework time have healthier, happier teens and relationships

with their kids. So I'm hoping that's the truth. Right. We're trying to get

our little ones to finally go to bed instead of just throwing them in there and having a free-for-all.

So we were, we're being a little more strict. And dad told them a couple times the other night,

hey, you got to quiet down. You got to go to bed and they didn't. And on like the third time,

he took away their baby doll and their stuff lying.

They're little buddies. And I hear this uproar and I'm like, oh, what's happening? They got out. And I'm like, oh, okay, got it. So we say to them, the second you quiet down and lay down in your bed, get you lying in your baby doll back. And they're like, okay, immediately quiet.

Give them to them.

Everybody sleeps.

No one's traumatized.

Wow. get you lion and your baby doll back. And they're like, okay, immediately quiet. Give them to

them. Everybody sleeps. No one's traumatized. We move on with their lives. The next morning,

the four-year-old comes to Steve with an Easter storybook, and she points to Jesus and she says,

Jesus no-take stuffies, dad. Jesus, no-take stuffies. He no-take stuffies, dad.

Jesus, no take stuffies.

You know take stuffies?

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