For the Morning After a Too Late Night

Four lines you can say out loud tonight. Word for word. Free to save.

What to say

1. Wake up is at seven, and last night’s bedtime is the reason it’s hard.

2. Seven o’clock comes whether you slept enough or not, and your body keeps count.

3. I open the curtains first, then the light, then I sit on the bed and count to ten.

4. Tonight bedtime moves twenty minutes earlier, and you choose which twenty.

When to use it

This is for the moment it actually goes wrong — not the calm version you rehearse in the car. Pick one line. Say it once. Then stop talking and wait three seconds. If they push back, repeat the same line, not a new one. Say the same thing for five nights before you decide it doesn't work.