"Children Are Miraculous."

Stop yelling (giant period.) Yes, something I need to work on. As a child the neighborhood kids used to say that they could hear mom yelling at us from up the street (sorry, Mom.) Let me just say that she was/is a spectacular Mom. The woman yells, deal with it. And now I do. Deal with it. The yelling is not mean-spirited, just a way of communicating when your kids are ignoring your request to do something.clean something/ etc.

Although I am working on that aspect of my personality- the yelling. I think it goes along with having generally low patience and then also having kids. Yeah. Not a good mix, huh? ;0)

But, "Go find elephants and kiss them (?)" What. The. Heck. Do we really want to encourage children to embrace (giant) animals?

But the rest of this mantra I say is spot on.

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