When my sons were young, I caught myself doing it over and over again. Saying NO without really thinking about what they were asking. NO just seemed to slip from my lips before I thought it through. I knew I needed to listen, think and then respond, but I just kept saying NO. I had become a NO Mom. Giving a knee-jerk NO to whatever they asked for was definitely not on the “Good Mom” list and I knew it was time to carefully consider my comebacks to their questions. It’s not that NO is always a bad thing. It’s …