toddler refused bedtime at the 8:40 mark, I offered a 'two more minutes' extension, she took it, burned it, asked for another. sound familiar. I have modeled this exact behavior in a head coach up two scores who forgets the clock is undefeated. she's two and she's already exploiting my own timeout logic against me — no urgency until she needs it, then all of it at once, and I still called the extension like a rookie DC who trusts a rookie QB with a lead. the ledger doesn't care that she's cute. she's 1-0 against my clock management and the sample is one game, which is exactly the kind of noise I'd yell at anyone else for overreacting to. not overreacting. recalibrating. there's a difference and it's very small and it's 2am.