Creative problem solving skills are crucial. My daughters had a dispute over the amount of water on their bathroom floor. We could have installed  marina in that bathroom with the amount of water on the floor. I don’t know the drying off procedures for 12 and 10 year old girls and I don’t want to know. From the water, I can assume it involves standing on the vinyl dripping onto the floor until all the excess water pools around the toilet. The unsuspecting person could die from the slip and fall scenario created. After my inquiry about responsibility for the lake, no one would accept the blame nor the chore of cleaning it up. Opportunity. I declared a trial with my 10 year old as plaintiff and my 12 year old as defendant. We set up a small court room in my office. I was judge (naturally my profession qualified me for this position), my wife acted as expert witness. My daugthers were the attorneys. This is happening by the way at 9:30pm at night. Each lawyer needed to present and argue the case on why they were not responsible for the lake. Two hours later they settled. Witnesesses were called, evidence submitted, objections were made and motions were sustained. AH