She was right. Our son was in his room “playing” with action figures on the dog. The poor fluffy pooch was sitting there patiently but looked up with “save me” eyes. I extracted him with a finger wag to my son.

“‹There’s an ability parents gain, deciphering the sounds and cries their babies and kids make. It can become a super power once they’re old enough to be unattended in other rooms for longer periods.

We learn to tell the difference between cries for attention and cries of real pain. One groan means boredom and another means they just broke something, a longer one means it was expensive.

Our sanity can depend on being able to tell the difference between a regular snotty-nosed sniffle versus one that signals the start of an all out nuclear tantrum.

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