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That's mine!

Written by Jesse Florea

Yank! A doll flies into the air, ripped from a preschooler’s hands by your 3-year-old daughter. “My toy,” your daughter states firmly.

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Tales of a potty-training pro

Written by Laura Polk

Potty training my daughter was a breeze. When she turned 18-months-old, we bought a potty, starting reading books about the potty and let her pretend to use it. When she was two, we told her it was potty time.

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Stranger danger

Written by Bridgette Booth

I took my six-year-old daughter, Rachel, on a shopping trip. When I realized she had disappeared, I searched the aisles but could not find her. Blinking back tears, I hurried to where I had last seen her and desperately called her name.

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Scripture squirrel

Written by Connie L. Peters

If you sing a Scripture verse often enough, toddlers will remember it. But singing does not guarantee they will learn the correct words – like the child who thought God’s name was Harold from the phrase in the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be thy name.”

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Reforming my tiny tyrants

Written by Dave Meurer

Anyone who believes children come into this world as “clean slates” with no predisposition to be tiny felons has never done battle with a two-year-old demanding to go to Toys “R” Mine.

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