Sisterly Love

Ashley and Laney fight ALL the time. Seriously, every waking moment they are bickering. It is truly exhausting and we are getting creative with trying to handle this in our household.

The other day we were all sitting on the porch as it was warm. All the neighborhood kids were out. And then they started..."Don't touch me, Don't look at me, I am NOT going to be your best friend, I am not going to play with you..." and so on and so on. Enough is enough. I looked at them and pulled one of my favorite mom tricks. "You two will sit on the porch swing together, holding hands and not talking until I say get up." Oh were they ever embarrassed at first, looking down, glaring at me, their friends outside were looking and laughing, and then it worked, they both started laughing and they were allowed to get up.

Don't worry though. The next morning before even getting dressed they started again. By they time we were in the car heading to daycare I said, "No talking. You two are not allowed to talk for 7 minutes." Adam Jr., TJ and I had a lovely start to our drive. Then I said, "You can apologize to each other and to me and then you two can talk again." No sooner do I say that then I hear, "No I am going first" "No I want to talk first!" "You are mean" etc etc. I just replied, "No talking the rest of the car ride." I know that this might not deter them from fighting again soon, but it sure did make my ride to daycare a bit more peaceful, and at that point, that was enough for me!