The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Stop saying no. Start saying yes.

I know parents who have yes days with their kids.

Days when the kids can ask for just about anything,

barring the hazardous, illegal, harmful, or physically impossible,

and the parents have agreed to go with it.

While the idea assuredly raises some eyebrows

and probably isn't for every

family or age and personality of child, I've observed that it's rarely the Pandora's box

most people would assume. On the first round, kids might try to push the limits out of sheer

curiosity to see how far they can ride that train, how far they can push the parental

units. With time and steadiness on the parents' parts, however, the kids generally settle into a happy,

but reasoned approach in which their requests end up reflecting their parents' values to a startling

degree.

They plan a healthy picnic, or cook a healthy, albeit strangely assembled, meal together.

They ask for an extended family activity or day trip that includes some hiking or biking or family sport.

It becomes more about their self-determination and maybe some creative embellishments than flying in the face of the normal family guidelines, oddly, even if they're subject for regular complaint. Nonetheless, the fun factor just went through the roof.

We adults can learn something from this.

What would it be like, for example, to have a yes

day when it comes to primal health? I'm not talking about eating dessert for every meal of the day

or lounging in front of the TV all day long. This isn't about thumbing our noses at what

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