I have a 4 going on 40 year old and a 2-almost 3 year old daughters that love and hate each other. Here is the argument that I gracefully stayed out of till I was needed for referee.
M: "EW D your breath stinks get away"
D: "M my breath doesnt stink, stop teasing me, ITS MY BUTT ok!! dont tease me ever again or your going to feel my sharp teeth on your finger"
M: "just try it bucket-head I will SCREAM mommy if you do"
D:" mommy isnt near you she cant STOP me from biting you"
M: "D I love you, why would you bite me"
D: "cause you are a CHICKEN head and need a spankin"
There was no physical violence, just a lot of screaming and my trying not to laugh uproariously.
Anyone else had this?
I think the clincher that broke it for me just now and had to run to another room to laugh, was M... After getting a talking too and a time out. She comes out to D and in the most serious face and sad tone says: "D you disgraced me"
I have a 3 year old that has a language delay...has made incredible progress...and normally gets his pronouns and such straight...but...not today!
5 y/o: You hit me!
3 y/o: I didn't hit me! I hit you!
The 3 year old I nanny for was playing with her "chatimal" a hamster that records what you say and repeats it back in a chipmunk like voice. One day I heard her in the other room talking to it. She said:
L:Hi
Hamster: Hi
L: stop copying me
Hamster: stop copying me
L: you're stupid
Hamster: you're stupid
L: (really offended)I'm not stupid you're stupid!!
Hamster: I'm not stupid you're stupid!!
She was very seriously mad. It went on like this for a while. I was laughing in the other room before I stepped in and reminded her we don't use that kind of language. But it was hard not to laugh.
when this happens, I grab my face & say, "wait a minute! I'm the Mom! I can't laugh & do my job!". I make a production out of straightening out my face....& then hold it with my fingers & say thru gritted teeth, "okay, I'm ready...go on".
Gets them every time!
Between my 10 year old and 3 year old (at the time)
10 year old: "Aubrey, eat your food. Do you want to be dead?"
3 year old: "Yeah, I want to be Dad! No, I want to be Mom."
10 year old: "Yes, you want to stay with Mom. You're wasting the environment to not eat your food."
Thats stinkin hilarious!! Too cute. My kids usually involve a high pitched squeal when they are fighting, and its not funny!
I wish they fought funny!
AHAHAHAHA Be sure to video them.
MIne still do and they are 11 and 14. Although now it's things like
Get out of my bubble space, your standing too close to me.
She, 14 I'm in the fridge, you get out.
He, 11 Nuh-uh you're cooking on the stove
She, 14 Uh huh I'm going to the fridge and you knew it and you're just standing there so I can't get in.
She was near the stove and the fridge was closed, he went for cheese, she threw a fit. THis was one of last week's blows. They are homeschooled and one sits in the kitchen, one in the dining room because his breathing annoys her.
ONce, when the oldest two were being just peachy, I put them both in TO facing each other, then videotaped it and sent to my husband who was on ship. He had 15 guys in his room watching the kids bicker in timeout.
HA! I love those fights! My four year old is always going around tattling about what his sisters "thought". Like, "MOM, she THINKS it's all HERS!" or "She THOUGHT it wasn't mine but it was." And I'm always like, "She THOUGHT that?" and he's like "YEAH!!!" and I'm like, "OH NO!"
The best is when I overhear my oldest (5) saying things like, "Ok, you guys, I've really had enough, and I'm not going to say it again. I am at the end of my ROPE!"
