When two siblings are together
My home gets pretty rowdy these days.
Other than doing quieter activities together, they play and laugh real loud. They play chase with each other and run around the house. They give each other big hugs and tumble around their beds.
And that’s not it.
They’ve also started wanting the exact same thing. If one is holding a toy, then the other wants to hold it too. If one sits on a bike, then the other wants to sit on it too.
And when that happens, you’d then hear them screaming and crying. One holds on to what he assumes as ‘HIS’ real tightly, and the other tries to take it away with all her might.
THEN I have no choice but become the mediator. The umpire. The nagging Mom who comes to the ‘incident site’ and talks (read: repeats herself) about the importance of sharing AND waiting AND giving WITH NO shouting, screaming nor snatching.
Then whoever is the ‘snatcher’ has to apologise.
[Sometimes I just watch them from a distance and let them solve their conflicts without my intervention]
Really, nowadays this happens SO frequently throughout the day.
Well, I guess I’m just going through what they usually say about having more than one kid in the family.
You know, that these kids love each other deeply. But siblings are not siblings if their relationship is not peppered with conflicts which they’ll (somehow manage to) forgive and forget a few minutes later.
