Marie

Hi, Dr. John.

How are you?

I am doing really well.

I'm really excited to talk to you.

So, well, first of all, I want to say I've been listening for about three years to every episode.

I've read all your books.

And I find myself very regularly with my kids saying things that I affectionately call deloneyisms.

And they look at me and go, Mom, did Dr. John say that?

So my question is, I'll just give you a little bit of background, and then you can give me all the wisdom, I hope.

I have five kids.

They range in age from 20 to 5, so we're in all these extracurricular things all the time all over the place.

20 and 5.

It is.

I was potty training and teaching a kid how to drive at the same time.

At the same time.

Sometimes quite literally.

Um, so anyway, we have, we have quite a large circle of, you know, families that we know who are in similar activities.

And one of these families we found out about three weeks ago lost, um, one of their sons.

Um, and so our whole community just kind of began to rally around them and provide meals and all that sort of thing.

And then about a week after that, my phone blew up one afternoon asking, have you seen, have