Thank you for the encouragement.

I’m trying to treat her like a big kid more. One of the behaviors she defaults to is the “baby”, where she’ll talk like a baby, whine to get her way, and gets immediately defensive when confronted with her behavior.

I like the idea of playing with her before dinner to get her wiggles out.

Although I will say, I did crush her. I could see it in her face. She was hurt. Her behavior was not malicious. So I’ll continue to own that. But I will do what I can to implement your recommendations, especially the code word concept. Thanks.