The Calm Box

My daughter’s tantrums have set the stage for some of my favorite moments in life. Stay with me, here.

The girl has always had a set of lungs on her. And from the time she was old enough to understand the words “go to your room,” she understood the truly awesome power of simply not doing a thing that a person is telling you to do. So I’d pick her up and plop her in her room, except there was no lock on her door, so then I’d spend the next however long literally leaning my full body weigh...