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Number one is patience: Patience is my worst fault and the key to most of my parenting disasters. I have a six year old, a three year old, and one on the way. So I need it in spades.
Number two is flexibility: Those little stinkers NEVER behave"in character" and always take the path-of-the-least-expected. Although, these are often your best memory snapshots.
Number three: don't forget what it's like to be a kid. Playing in the rain doesn't really give you pneumonia. And almost everything washes off eventually.
*Parenting tip*
NERF BAZOOKA!!! You don't want to hurt them, but sometimes you really need the stopping power!!
Buy one today!
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The sad thing is... as you get older you come to realize that you don't so much pilot your life, as you just try to hold on, in a screaming, defiant ball of white-knuckle anxious fury 
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