Haha. Yeah I remember getting into this screaming match with my kid, totally losing my cool but trying to stick with explosive child book verbiage yelling something like "I can see that this is hard for you, and I am TRYING to compromise with you which means you HAVE TO stop being so difficult and give a little here!" Needless to say it didn't go swimmingly.

I like that the author gives you "permission" to forgo things like baths and hair brushing or whatever causes major contention for a little while just to keep the peace in your household. I stopped trying to get my son to eat things other than pasta and chips and he just lived on that three meals a day for a couple of months. Every now and again he'd have apple slices with peanut butter too.