over on the sidelines taking notes is psychologist, which we'll need after this, dale atkins who willgh in later. >> lucky for you she's a lovely lady. >> what were you doing? >> first of all, say something nice to her. i love your dress. >> i love your dress. >> okay. >> now we're done. tell us what -- tell us about your style of parenting. it seems from that tiny clip we saw to be harsh and cruel. >> well, i am the push parent and i wear the banner proudly. >> yeah. >> life is hard. i want him to be a boy who's going to turn into a great man. >> but you don't think that's possible being a little gentler about it? >> can he be a boy a little longer. >> seems your trouble has problems with this. >> high muss band is 6'7" and my son is tall. a lot of the 7-year-olds think he's 5. i sometimes push him harder so he can compete with the older kids. >> why are you trying to beat him at the race. what are you doing? >> teach him a lesson. he can't always win. >> i agree. the concept you're not going to always win but i think down the road you might be very sorry that it was you that was doi

. >> here to tell us why we are so mentally exhausted and what we can do about are psychologist dale atkins and john tierny. welcome. >> decision fatigue. this is a real thing, isn't it? john, you wrote a lot about this. >> it is discovered in the lab and the shopping mall. the first experiment involved hungry students left alone with these delicious chocolate chip cookies and they had to resist them. they managed to resist them but afterwards they had less self-control for anything else. they depleted their will power. >> you have a certain amount of will power. >> and you have to guard it and protect it. you end up making poor decisions if you make any decision at all. >> every individual is different. so some people have more will power than others. >> researchers found that making decisions depletes the same source of energy. after you make decisions you have less will power and you make bad decisions. >> nothing good happens after midnight. >> important decisions that you really have to have your attention and focus for. and then a lot of little decisions that you waste your energy on.

>> psychologist dale atkins and life coach laura postada are here to answer questions about getting yourrack. we love you ladies. >> shall we get started? we have a young woman across the street with a question. >> hi, this is kathy from long island. my question is this, my husband works -- my husband is retired and i work full time. he would like to spend all our free time together, which is a good thing. but sometimes i need time for myself. how do i make time for me without hurting him and/or feeling guilty? >> she wants "me" time. your husband retired young. >> i can definitely relate to this one. my husband retired and all of a sudden, he has free time. my advice to her is, definitely sit down and have a conversation with him. tell him you really love and appreciate that he wants to spend all his time with you. but you need to have some free time to work and also to relax. so, just be honest, have a conversation with him. >> but don't hurt his feelings. >> yeah. >> you think that's the best way to go? >> it's a great way to go. you have to acknowledge your life changed so dramatical

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. >> here to tell us why we are so mentally exhausted and what we can do about are psychologist dale atkinsso some people have more will power than others. >> researchers found that making decisions depletes the same source of energy. after you make decisions you have less will power and you make bad decisions. >> nothing good happens after midnight. >> important decisions that you really have to have your attention and focus for. and then a lot of little decisions that you waste your energy on. >> you got to talking about buying a car that certain people tend to pay more after four. is that kind of what happens to your brain? >> they did an experiment where researchers watched people buying a car. at a certain point they will take the default. the difference may be like $2,000 a car. at a certain point you stop making it. that is one of the easiest ways to deal with decision fatigue. >> it is overload. your data is all full. >> it is overload. what happens is if you don't refresh then you just can't do it anymore and you say i'm done. as in the clip i can't hear you. you are asking too muc