Just yesterday at lunch, Mallary was bugging Trevan at the table. John asked her, "Why do you bother Trevan so much?"
Her classic reply, "Ummm... Because he's my brother."
I had to hide my laughter. She said it very matter of factly, like, "Duh, dad."
Trevan even came home from school with this paper below: It was a fill in the blank sentance he had to complete, "I turned into Bombaloo when.... (and Trevan filled in:) my sister hits me."
They are just stinkers. They argue over toys, who gets to watch what movie first, fight over crayons... I often hear Trevan tell Mallary, "Stop following me, I want to play by myself, I don't want you to be next to me." It gets so old.
Mallary totally knows how to push his buttons too. We tell him if he would ignore what she does to him that she'll stop, but he doesn't get it.
Seriously, we are getting tired of it.
I try to ignore it when I can, but you can only do that for so long...
Are your kids like this? What do you do when your kids won't share or won't play nice? How do you deal with it? Please share!!
3 comments:
I beat'em.
No, not usually. It drives me crazy, too. I make them work (like scrub the walls), or confine them to separate rooms for a good long time. None of this "one minute per year of age" new age parenting stuff.
But they still keep it up. Frankly I don't think there is much of a solution. All we can do is keep it from being TOO terrible. And I do think that 99% of kids do it. The other 1% go on to be General Authorities, Mother Teresa, etc. And hey, even Pres. Monson was naughty in Primary.
gotta love it!
Try having them 10 years apart!!! lol don't be like me
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