Parenting By Trial and Error » sibling relationships http://www.parentingbytrialanderror.com flexibility in raising kids Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:13:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Oh, the injustice of it all! http://www.parentingbytrialanderror.com/2009/06/10/oh-the-injustice-of-it-all/ http://www.parentingbytrialanderror.com/2009/06/10/oh-the-injustice-of-it-all/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:16:51 +0000 Sarah E. Ludwig http://parentingbytrialanderror.com/?p=1355 Today was one of those crazy, squabble-and-tattle-every-five-minutes days. You know, the kind that make you want to jump on the quickest flight to Maui and that actually do make you mutter “Serenity now!” every so often, in the manner of Frank Costanza. (And, as with Frank Costanza, it doesn’t work anyway.)

This afternoon, the girls were on the computer, I was working on fixing my website and the boys were playing behind me. I turned around just in time to witness Cody lying back in my big round chair, his knees up to his chest, and Logan descending on him, Nerf gun in hand. Cody’s legs shot out straight into Logan’s chest, Logan fell with a giant thud and I jumped out of my chair all in the same second.

I took the two steps necessary to get to where Cody was sitting, grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the chair and said, “You don’t treat people like that! You know better. Now go to your room until I tell you to come out.” Cody went sobbing loudly to his room.

I turned to scoop up the increasingly-distraught pile on the floor that was Logan and dropped in the round chair with him, crooning over his injuries, both physical and emotional. After a bit, he caught his breath. “Why did you treat my brother like that???” he demanded between sobs.

Have you ever been turned into “the bad guy” by the kids when you were simply trying to dole out justice?

 

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