While this parenting.com article on how to react to the annoying things children say is long on the "you must be calm... passive" Yoda-style of parenting and short on the "we must end this destructive conflict!" dark side we all sometimes engage in, I still found it interesting enough to read all the way through. Olivia has (so far) proven remarkably compliant when a timeout is even mentioned by me, and responds pretty well to Ellen's countdown technique. We have noticed, however, that she's much more unruly when we're both around than she is when she's just with one of us. The little monster is so clever this is actually the only way we can tell when she's playing us off each other.

I'm so not looking forward to 13.