Sibling Rivalry Solved!
It has taken me 15 plus years, but I finally figured out how to keep the children from killing each other on a daily basis.
Obviously, I am a parenting pro.
In fact, my house hasn’t heard a single sibling fight All. Week. Long. It has been quiet.
And I didn’t even have to tie everyone up and stuff them in a closet to achieve it.
All it took was to get rid of two of my four children, but the key was to know which ones to ditch.
The oldest and the youngest are the only ones left at home, and I’ve distracted the oldest with things like her job and the internet and chores. The youngest is harder because he keeps whining about being bored, but he has a friend here now, so there is someone who is both invested in him not being bored and interested in entertaining him.
As for the two children that I ditched? It was a temporary ditch. One is away at camp for the week, and the other is away at a friend’s house for the week. The friend’s house was the idea of the friend’s mother because it seems I am not the only one who suffers from children with the goal to drive their mother insane.
I suspect sibling rivalry will commence at my home once more sometime on Friday when one of the two missing children return home. It will continue despite the oldest leaving for camp next Monday.
I suspect my house won’t see this much peace again until sometime in 2015 when a few of them have graduated and gone off to college.
