He recommended we thump the taps, so while my husband and I went upstairs to try this, my three-year-old son ran for a pee into the marble-clad bathroom whose door opens directly onto the shower floor.

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This is a bit personal for me, because my oldest son, a high school sophomore, decided he wanted to try football this year.

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