What's odd about such self-restraint is that I was terrible at holding back my childish desires in almost every other way.

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So recently, when my husband and I took the kids to an ice cream shop, I ordered one puritanical kiddie scoop of ice cream and only ate half, to teach them about self-restraint.

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