👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Navy SEAL recommends this mindfulness trick for parents to keep their cool

When parenting pushes you toward the edge, this SEAL-approved move might just save your sanity

It’s obvious, really. When seeking advice on how to raise those young, cute, impressionable little humans we call children, turn to the Navy SEALs. You might think I’m kidding, but if you’ve ever been THIS CLOSE to losing your entire mind when the stress is piled deep and they won’t just brush their TEETH FOR THE LOVE OF… Sorry. Flashback.

As Mark Wales reports, former SEAL Errol Doebler swears by a simple breathing method that got him through the rigors of SEAL training and the daily battle of wills that is family life. It’s called Box Breathing: four seconds in, four seconds hold, four seconds out, four seconds hold. Repeat until calm, or at least until bedtime. It soothes the mind and lowers the heart rate.

And that’s just one of several SEAL-tested tricks Doebler uses to handle life’s chaos. The rest might make your next tough day feel a little less like a battlefield.

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💔 Lemon chicken, death metal, and the breakup tip everyone swears by

Turns out, the best way to get over your ex isn’t to erase them, it’s to rediscover you.

As our writer Erik Barnes put it, there are a few undeniable facts of life: the sky is blue, water is wet, and breakups suck. So when you’re in that post-relationship depression spiral, how can you escape? Metal music and lemon chicken, apparently.

The real trick? Do absolutely anything your ex kept you from doing. One person brought back their favorite lemon chicken recipe. Another turned the volume up on their forgotten heavy metal playlist.

What will your story be? Was your ex allergic to shellfish? Get the crab. Were they a couch potato? Hit the trail!

Experts agree: reclaiming your freedom (even if you're still a little salty about it) is one of the healthiest ways to mend a broken heart. There are a few pitfalls to watch for, and you’ll find those in the full story too.

And what did we learn?

In our informal series exploring the interplay of sibling configurations, we’ve covered who can be meanest and now who ends up closest. But which sort of child is most likely to have the refined taste and heightened intellect that draws people to the Daily GOOD? It was a near thing, but apparently most GOOD readers are the oldest children.

• The one and only. BOOYA! (Only Child) (7.7%)

• First kid, best kid! (Oldest Child) (34.6%)

• The awesome and overlooked (Somewhere in the middle) (30.8%)

• Who doesn't love the baby? (Youngest Child) (26.9%)

Reader RevelleHamilton1 reports from our smallest cohort, the only children: “I always wished for a sibling or two. Found my ‘family’ when I was in my early 20s when I rented a house with friends.”

🚒 Trucks, helicopters, camels, thousands turn up to support terminally ill child in Kansas City

When Kansas City heard 3-year-old Tucker was terminally ill, the whole city showed up.

Tucker Langford has lived his three short years in pain that most of us can’t imagine. Born with a rare skin condition that makes touch unbearable, and now facing a terminal heart diagnosis, he was sent home on hospice to spend whatever time remains with his family.

All he asked for was a truck parade.

It started as a simple call to the local fire station. Maybe they could send a few trucks past the house to make a little boy smile. But the request struck a nerve. What followed was something much bigger: a grassroots outpouring that turned into a full-scale, city-wide parade.

Thousands of people showed up. Truckers. Bikers. First responders. Classic car collectors. Camel handlers. A police helicopter. An estimated 3,000 vehicles and more than 5,000 people flooded the streets.

As Erik Barnes writes, it wasn’t just about Tucker. This was a city remembering what it means to be human.

78 years ago today, just 44 years after the Wright brothers’ fragile Flyer skimmed 120 feet over Kitty Hawk at about 7 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager roared across the Mojave sky in the rocket-powered Bell X-1, breaking the sound barrier at roughly 700 mph and 43,000 feet. In 1903, flight itself seemed impossible; by 1947, pilots were chasing the edge of physics. Engineers whispered that the “sound barrier” might tear wings off or crush a human’s senses, but Yeager’s push past Mach 1 proved those limits were illusions, and the age of supersonic flight had begun.

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