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re: Jean Kerr

>"using primate behavioral studies as a model"

Ha! interesting approach. I never read the manuals, everything was instinct and honor. Long explanations. But you made me remember something. The paddle. Those cheap balsa wood paddles with the little red ball attached with elastic.

What an awesome noisemaker!
My daughter used to shriek and scream as I ran after her with it trying to keep her arms and legs down while giving her the paddle on her backside. Sometimes the sheer volume and theatrics of the tackle left us both screaming with laughter and the idea got THROUGH, and it diffused the situation (this was when she was around six). There wasn't much paddling after that, as we had reached a (silly) understanding.
She preferred not to run, I preferred not to paddle.

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