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Bickering

Ah, my lovely children. Pretty cute, don’t ya think?

They are driving me bonkers lately!

First let me say that there is little I love more than seeing them play together or hearing them laugh together.

I just wish those moments came more often, and lasted more than three minutes.

Because they are driving me bonkers with the bickering!

Sam is not blameless in all of this, but at the moment at least, the biggest issue is Kate picking on him. He can’t do anything right! Last night I actually heard her tell him how to swallow his spit in a way she doesn’t find offensive. I have lost count of how many times I have said “Stop terrorizing your brother!” I truly do not know what is so appealing to her about upsetting him.

She might be a sociopath.

Ok that is taking it a little far, but I am seriously at a loss. Is this normal sibling behavior? How can I make it stop? Are they going to get along?

I just want them to love each other, dammit!

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8 Replies to “Bickering”

  1. I find your use of the word “sociopath” disturbing. But only because I used it to describe Jonah this morning…UH OH!!!
    Clearly, I have no answers. The oldest needs to make the youngest feel stupid and inadequate. Yaaaay.

  3. I have no answers… my children are perfect angels.

    Or maybe it is because NO ONE has come up with a solution, thus far.

  4. There is almost 10 years between me and my only sibling and we fought till the day I moved out, at 16. Have fun!

  6. Not gonna lie. She could be learning all about bickering in her third grade classroom. Where there may or may not be at LEAST 10 children who find bickering to be a competitive sport. I even offered an incentive last week for the class to be bicker free for at least 4 days. (I wanted to give them that one day net they needed). Needless to say, they couldn’t do it! Kate is not bickering with anyone at school, but I think the habits of her classmates may be making an impression. :/ Maybe this break will get her back on the ‘loving big sister track!’ I am ABSOLUTELY not looking forward to being separated from my ‘bickering buttnugget’ third grade students.

  7. My kids drive me bonkers as well. I could talk until I am blue in the face and I dont think it would do a thing. I try to explain that God gave us families to love each other and help each other and we are supposed to feel safe and loved at home. I dont know if any of it sinks in at all.

  8. Pinterest has a lovely T-shirt that you can make that says on the front of it ‘our get along shirt’ I think and it needs to be ginormous enough to fit both kids in it. Apparently you shove both kids in it until they are able to get along and stop terrorizing each other…but then again, my older brother terrorizes me on a daily basis, just for fun…he’s 38! HA! Good luck! 🙂

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