She scowls and swats his hand away . I ' m fine . <| sep |> No . If Redskins touched it last , then it is still Cowboys ball because the kicking team has to establish posession , the receiving team does not . <| sep |> Did it help ? <| sep |> I ' ll give you labyrinth and loopers for parallax <| sep |> What was the prayer request , was it to keep Brian Doyle in our prayers or something else ? <| sep |> We got back to kaf from a mission on thanksgiving 2012 and all the American dfacs had already closed , the brit one was the only one still open and they didn ' t have any thanksgiving food . <| sep |> What helped me a ton was the whole ' validate their emotions ' thing . But my oldest is only five so I ' m clueless about the older kids . It ' s taken a long time to get into that mindset that kids do well when they can , and when they can ' t it ' s because they lack the skills patience , empathy , etc to do so . Our power struggles are usually over pretty minor things , which is why it ' s so damn frustrating . Like my five year old will lay on the couch next to me and kick me , or start bouncing around . He knows not to jump on the couch . A million times . I tell him to stop , he continues , I get mad , sound angry , he gets mad , yells no dummy stupid , I get mad at the language , start counting , time out , etc . all of my reactions ignore the fact that he needs attention and some heavy duty play time because let ' s face it I ' m lazy and tired but if I had suggested when he started bouncing hey let ' s go outside , it would have solved many problems . Unless he refuses to put his shoes on , queue yet another power struggle , then a fight over whether he can go into so and so ' s garage or whatever other exhausting thing comes up . But yeah , it ' s horrifying the way I talk to my kids the way I ' d never ever talk to another adult . I don ' t do that with my younger one , I don ' t feel like I need to . Totally different personalities and my oldest and I clash a lot . I have a nice collection of conflicting parenting books .