The Dr. John Delony Show

you talk about what I think is the antidote for envy the antidote for all of this is gratitude and grateful what you got.

So my wife is a children's literature aficionado right and her I don't fully understand how smart she is, but I know that she taught teachers how to teach kids how to read. She's like a literacy person and she's a huge proponent of children's literature and how pictures are reading and yes, turning the pages is actually technology and it's a it's a it's a path for kids neural connections to begin to do to develop right so you can read a book like this and you can read a book like this when you're a young and there's some really clear scientific literature that says you want to set your kids apart over an arc of their life read to them when they're young.

the kids book I was excited about it because I have yep four six and eight year old at home and yeah like bedtime stories it's a thing and I always love the books that have like a message at the end that I'm like as a parent I'm like oh that was so good to hear.

I wanted it to be short. I wanted it to rhyme. I wanted to have animals.

So I wanted a book just to walk them through the story of like hey you want new toys you want all of this stuff and it's not right or wrong right there's not like a moral compass to this stuff but at the end of the day can we understand that the stuff is not the thing that's gonna fulfill us and so that was yeah that was the message I wanted to put in.

I'm going to send you Entree leadership by old man by Dave Ramsey

There's another really good book by Linda Flanagan called Take Back the Game

Anything by Chuck Pahne guys. He's out there and Octavia Butler, the parable of the sewer series is just such a profound work

The great book Fight Club is great and that's one of my favorites too.

He's written some of the most important books I've ever read. The five is functions of a team, ideal team player. Incredible, incredible books.

And Lori Gottlieb's, is it maybe you should talk to somebody? Is that right? Yeah. That's an extraordinary book as well.

I want you all first and foremost to read Emily and the Gotsky's book together. Have you all done that? We haven't. No. Okay. Please get that book and you'll read it together. You'll both blush because she is, she is as it's not a faith-based book by any stretch of the imagination at all. But it is the best book I've read on A, introducing it's, the book is Four Women.

And honestly, what I love about it, it starts with an anatomy lesson. Most women, now I say most women, a large number of them don't even know that. Here's what things are called and we're going to start there, right? And it gets into it. But here's what's amazing. It begins to give you a series of questions you can ask and broaden the conversation in your home. It's not just about this. Can we have intercourse tonight?

My guess is you have focused a lot on the gas pedals in the house for Elizabeth. What are her brakes? And her brakes right now are, I don't even think about it. It doesn't even enter my mind.

Read Jonathan Hyatt's Masterpiece. It is.

There's two books that my, that Dr. Jennings sent me. And we'll link to them in the show notes here. One is called the Berenstein Bears and the truth. And these are children's books. These are kid, kid, kid books. Berenstein Bears and the truth by Stan and Jan Berenstein.

And there's another one called What If Everybody Did That? And the followup for older kids. What if everybody said that by Colleen Madden, I've never read any of these books, but I pretty much trust anything that Dr. Jennings tells me. And so she said, these are great books for sitting out with a kid who is struggling with telling the truth. And they're just little learning books that you can read over and over and over again.

And there's another one called what if everybody did that? And the followup for older kids. What if everybody said that by Colleen Madden, I've never read any of these books, but I pretty much trust anything that Dr. Jennings tells me. And so she said, these are great books for sitting out with a kid who is struggling with telling the truth. And they're just little learning books that you can read over and over and over again.

There's a man named Mike Lanza who wrote a book called Playborhood,

There's a phenomenal book called Hunt Gather parent by Michaeline Duclef.

Dr. Nicholas Carderas, he wrote Glow Kids and Digital Madness, phenomenal books, just phenomenal.

This came out, John Payne, he wrote a book called Beyond Winning.

Here's a stat for you. It's from a book called Smart Moves by Dr. Carla Hanford.