Please discuss.
I am at the end of my rope. I've tied a knot in it and am hoping for the best. What do you do when you've had enough? When you just can't take one more "that's not fair" or "I had it first" type stuff. What do you do. Someone enlighten me, please.
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I have just sent my two boys to their rooms for an hour. We were going to the pool this afternoon, but I have had enough of the fighting. I now charge them $2 for each tattle or fighting incident. I love being a stay home mom, but we really need a schedule.
I threaten to sell one of them on Ebay. The one who is the best behaved and tattles the least gets to decide who stays and who goes.
But hey, that's just me. ;)
That charging thing wouldn't work for us. Our kids don't have any money.
You should see them right now. One gigantic pot of love stew. In there, asleep, all cuddly and innocent.
If I were to guess, in about 10 hours, they will be at each other's throats. Just a guess.
I "punish" them by not letting them play with each other. The amount of time varies, based on how ticked I am by that point. moderately ticked is 30 minutes. Totally ticked is 2 hours. (Keep in mind that this can be a sort of "punishment" for mom too!) But, everytime I have used it, they then think it is a treat to play together again; all I have to do for the rest of the day is threaten to ground them from each other. I started this when they were 3 & 4, and it still works at age 11 & 12!
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