I never ceased to be amazed at how easy it is to solve potentially large behavior problems with just a little imagination. Case in point: a 3-year-old girl whose aversion to wearing clothing was threatening to hold the family hostage.

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I don’t know if it was the spaghetti and meat sauce or the jet-black Guinness, but I had a wicked case of indigestion. It was 2 a.m. and I was miserable; too tired to do something productive and too uncomfortable to sleep. Rather than wake my wife, I migrated to the sofa, grabbed the remote and flipped through early-morning television. It was slim pickings, mostly infomercials.

In between the time when the People’s Choice nominations are announced and the Oscars are handed out, I always have to play a lot of catch up.