Six months ago my children were driving me insane with their constant, continuous and/or continual fighting (take your pick) and bickering. I could not leave them for FIVE minutes without someone attacking the other – with words or HORROR OF HORRORS a funny face (a crime against all that is good and right with the world, surely) or a smack.
Goodness knows what has happened (and I thank Goodness and of course Goodness’s owner, God) – the children are getting along. All of them. They play together, share together and best of all laugh together. It does have its drawbacks though as nothing I say actually goes into their brain – it usually gets snorted out or laughed out or farted out if they are in the mood for that sort of thing and let’s face it – they’re boys so they’re ALWAYS in the mood for farting. They actually take after their mother. So husband and I are left with tidying up their mess about which they’ve been reminded countless times is THEIR responsibility, making beds they’re supposed to make and taking plates to sinks and flushing toilets because they keep forgetting to do it.
You know what I’m going to say, right?
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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LOL…is that really true? hehe, don’t you just wanna pull out your hair when they blantantly ignore you? I bray and bray for the boys to clean up their toys, and their response is always “tomorrow”, or “I’m tired”, or “Vx is not helping” while he just sits there not doing anything himself. I threaten to trash their toys but I usually can’t bring myself to do it and clean it up myself.
However!! Shaz has found a new way to deal with it. She just gets the broom and starts sweeping. Then you see them jump to their feet and gingerly dance around the swept up mess, snatching up toys in a rescue effort!
“They actually take after their mother” – hahaha!
lol, i would love to meet your kids. they sound like real riots!
How wonderful – the not-fighting bit – enjoy it while it lasts.
As for the clean-up, my approach is similar to Shaz’s, as mentioned by mousehunter in the comment above: I bring out the vacuum cleaner, and threaten to suck up every single one of my 4-year-old’s toys if it’s not out of my way in 3 minutes. It works – she picks them up *frantically* and I hoover the place in peace
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(I think I’ll be okay until she discovers that every toy cannot be swallowed up by the vacuum).