Love or overt manipulation?  There are oh-so-many lessons to learn in the world of parenting - that excruciating teeter-totter of love and happiness, and frustration and difficulty, (are you visualizing the teeter-totter?)  we all seem to go into in a relativey blind state.  Today, we had a little typical battle of the wills in our house - can't say I don't know where this comes from, and I'm not at all surprised at the outcome - because Ryan … [Read more...]