...having a 2 a.m. standoff with your 4-year-old son, who woke you up because he has to take a dump -- but wants to do it downstairs and needs you to come with him because he's scared to go alone. And so in your bleary-brained bewilderment you refuse and say he has to use his bathroom upstairs because it's the middle of the night and there's no reason to go downstairs. And he lays on the floor and rolls around and kicks his feet like an irate gator in protest, and you must decide right then and there whether or not to abandon your parenting principles and give in to his wanton demands and escort him downstairs to take a shit, or prepare for a lengthy battle that will surely eat up precious time you could otherwise use to dream about frolicking in a field of daisies and butterflies while mired in a deep, beautiful slumber. via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2IZtDkb
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