Dyani said putting her 7-year-old and 3-year-old to bed can be a “longer ordeal” than she and her husband intend. But even on nights when the bedtime struggle is real, they maintain a family ritual. “We always ask before we go to bed that each of us say one act of kindness that we did that day, one thing that we’re grateful for, and who we send good wishes to,” she told me. “Now our daughter is thinking about doing acts of kindness during the day so she can be excited about what she can tell us at night. And it’s a really simple way for us to connect and remind each other like, ‘You made me breakfast this morning.’
