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Boogers and Bellybuttons...

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Two of our grandkids stayed with us for a couple of weeks. So much fun. So much energy.  (Them - not me! No problem reaching my 10,000 step goal everyday.) So much laughter. So many "moments". What a gift. But I did learn some things... 1.  Kids are super honest 2.  Kids remember a lot 3.  Boogers don't bother them as much as they do me 4.  The singing bellybutton man looks better when they do it than when I do it      (and no, I will not explain what that is to you) 5.  Kids ask hard questions 6.  I want to do everything perfectly for and with them, just like I did with our kids 7.  No one is perfect After a few days it became apparent that I needed to help the kids center in on good things.  For every  negative thing they said about someone or something, they had to come up with five positive things.  Sometimes they had to really think about it - but, they couldn't go back to playing until they came up with five genuinely good things. It changed