lonelyarmywife,

What I did was to take my monsters to the park in the afternoons. That kept them out of the house so they couldn't trash it, it got ME out of the house, and it let them burn off excess energy. They would run, run, run to stay up with me as we walked through the park (Patterson Park is a biggish one). After dinner, when bedtime came around, well, they would do their crash and burn, and as I watched them sleep the sleep of the innocent, I would feel guilty about wanting to throttle them three or four times that day.

Hey - time is on your side.

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Eudaimonia