Right here the skeptic may say: " Oh, that stuff is all right for Northcliffe and Rockefeller or a sentimental novelist. But, I'd like to see you make it work with the tough babies I have to collect bills from" !
Well, the Sydney question was about brattiness and I have to imagine maybe she's talking about like going over to some couple's house with her husband and then there's like a bratty two-year-old.