A normal day? September 19, 2008
Posted by spacemom in : Kids, Mom Phrases , trackbackThis morning started as a normal day. The girls were grumping and fighting. At one point, there was a blood chilling scream. I was brushing my teeth at the time and ran out in the hallway just in time to see Soleil chasing her sister down the hallway with a tube of toothpaste. Lovely. Then there was the "But she started it" By both of them. In Stereo!
The day was great as they were separated. Then before dinner, Luna teased Soleil, so Soleil refused to help clean up Luna’s room and then they went to jump rope outside and I hear more screams as Luna is hitting her sister with the jump rope. And when I go to stop her, she decides that the rope is not good enough, let’s attack her with the handles.
Oy! We explained how this is BAD M’kay? BAD IDEA that leads to STITCHES and BLOOD and HOSPITALS.
Is this normal between siblings?
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I thought my natural colors were black and blue until my brother moved out for college.
Hah! No advice, but I seem to recall from my childhood that it’s fairly normal.
Oh yeah.
Welcome to my world…today both of girls decided to gang up on me by being extra “brats”. Look on the flip side, when they are good, you don’t know what to do…
Hi there,
Tried to send you an email, but it came back…Is it still thespacemom@comcast.net?
Thanks!
It’s normal. Heck, I was eight years older than my brother, and we still got into fights — I remember a knock-down drag-out one that happened because he spilled Spaghetti-Os on the kitchen floor and wouldn’t clean them up. And when P and his brothers were teenagers, they had a fight one day that led to P pushing his youngest brother (six years his junior) into the back yard and locking him out of the house. Youngest bro had a frying pan in his hand at the time, and was so mad that he threw the pan at the sliding door and broke the glass, which got all three of them into deep sh*t with their parents.
We have a zero tolerance policy for hitting. Any implement that is used to hurt someone gets confiscated immediately, for at least 24 hours. Any child that hits gets sent straight to their room. It doesn’t mean they never try, but on the whole we don’t see too much of it, and most of what we do see is pretty minor. We do have normal sibling stuff, but they’re learning to channel it into other more verbal channels.
I’m glad to see that things are beginning to turn around for you. I hope they keep getting brighter and brighter.
It’s totally normal, but we have a zero-tolerance policy for physical violence, too (we have a zero-tolerance policy for emotional violence, as well, but sometimes that’s much harder to police). Instant time-outs, no matter how subtle the attack. (There’s a lot of parting-shot soft punches or grazing kicks going on around here to try to evade detection.)