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Unless you are the fire department on an ice-cream run.

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My baby wouldn't stop noshing his lip after the lidocaine. :( Ouch.

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So, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I used to train my dog. I used positive reinforcement, for the most part, and some negative punishment (taking away something rewarding, e.g. stepping away from her or turning if she jumped up on me for attention). During that time, one of the things I learned was that when you are trying to work with a new dog (or cat, or bird, or child, etc.) there are hundreds (maybe more!) of things you do NOT want the puppy to be doing. Ask any new owner and you'll hear a string of DO NOT WANT:

The principal at our little school is moving on and her shoes will be really hard to fill.

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We just finished celebrating Carson's birthday at his school. Wish I hadn't forgotten the good camera!!

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So we used to do these Mom's Night Out things weekly, and coincidentally, we stopped doing them when I decided to have more of a "Single's Night In" thing last year. Tonight was better than any professional session with a trained counselor, and it occurs to me that our former arrangement was therapy in every sense of the word. Good food, good friends. The talk is similar - about relationships with our children, our husbands, our parents, siblings, teachers, coaches, and each other. We'd talk about sex and domesticity. We talked about the things we loved most about our partners, and the things that we didn't love about them. We chatted about politics, religion, our hobbies, our babies, our bodies, and that horrible dress the girl at the table- "right over there, no, don't turn AROUND!!!" was wearing. I mean, "doesn't she even own a mirror?" 

Read over at Jerk Ethic: "Anxiety breeds success." Boy if that is true I must have a mighty huge success on the horizon! :) 

"For some people conflict resolution can mean ... validating their point of 

view with overwhelming evidence, thus invalidating the other’s point of view..."

That's a sobering thought.

I'd put the lyrics here, but Google knows everything so I won't. And besides Carrie Underwood is hot, so you can get eye candy when you search for them ;) Take care of yourself, too.