There’s a lot of discussion in parenting around picking your battles, keeping the big picture in mind and not sweating the small stuff. While I agree that perspective is important in parenting, I’m also going to suggest that sometimes it actually is important to sweat the small stuff. I’m not suggesting that it's good to growl at every little thing, but there are some small battles that are worth winning in order to cancel out the bigger ones. The trick is learning to recognise which small battles have the potential to cause a big impact!