The boys got in a little kerfuffle tonight.
I'll spare you the detailed play-by-play.
In a nutshell, someone grabbed, the other punched, there was running, screaming and slamming.
It is Wednesday and we should have been in the car on the way to youth group by this point, but instead I'm hashing out the things we learned in Kindergarten "ask nicely", "keep our hands to ourselves", and "no running in the house" among other things.
After a lengthy chat with each of them pointing out the choices they could have made to avoid the drama, I gave them an opportunity to redeem the night.
"Write three things you like about your brother or things you enjoy doing with your brother and you can go to youth group. If you choose not to write three things you can spend the evening in your room with no electronics".
One chose to write, the other chose to be stubborn.
The little angel that started the drama to begin with wrote this:
Things I like about my brother
1. playing games together
2. learning from you
3. "accidentally" breaking the rules together
Though he wore a scowl on his face, I read each statement to the stubborn brother. I read them slowly so they could sink in, or just to annoy him, not sure which.
Then I told that stubborn one that one day when I'm dying the boys are going to be responsible for deciding what to do with my stone cold body and I hoped that they could do it without fighting.
I'm not sure why I threw that in at the end but I went with it.
They love each other, they just don't realize it sometimes.
I'll spare you the detailed play-by-play.
In a nutshell, someone grabbed, the other punched, there was running, screaming and slamming.
It is Wednesday and we should have been in the car on the way to youth group by this point, but instead I'm hashing out the things we learned in Kindergarten "ask nicely", "keep our hands to ourselves", and "no running in the house" among other things.
After a lengthy chat with each of them pointing out the choices they could have made to avoid the drama, I gave them an opportunity to redeem the night.
"Write three things you like about your brother or things you enjoy doing with your brother and you can go to youth group. If you choose not to write three things you can spend the evening in your room with no electronics".
One chose to write, the other chose to be stubborn.
The little angel that started the drama to begin with wrote this:
Things I like about my brother
1. playing games together
2. learning from you
3. "accidentally" breaking the rules together
Though he wore a scowl on his face, I read each statement to the stubborn brother. I read them slowly so they could sink in, or just to annoy him, not sure which.
Then I told that stubborn one that one day when I'm dying the boys are going to be responsible for deciding what to do with my stone cold body and I hoped that they could do it without fighting.
I'm not sure why I threw that in at the end but I went with it.
They love each other, they just don't realize it sometimes.
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