From downstairs, the sound of bickering, then howls of indignation. I stomp down the stairs and into the fray. “What?” I demand, giving them both my best stink-eye.<\/p>\n
“He hit me!” wails the assaulted.<\/p>\n
“He was teasing me!” counters the other.<\/p>\n
“In this household, we do not hit,” I lecture. They’ve heard it before. “It is never okay to hit. Never. If you are frustrated, use your words. If using your words doesn’t work, what should you do?”<\/p>\n
“Come and tell you,” they say in pouty unison.<\/p>\n
“That’s right. If your words don’t work, you come and tell me or Daddy, and we will help you.”<\/p>\n
**Fast forward two hours.**<\/p>\n
I can hear the commotion escalating from downstairs. Right on cue, I hear the inevitable: “I’m telling!!”<\/p>\n
One boy comes up, his brother right behind him. “Mom!” he begins.<\/p>\n
I cut him off. “I don’t want to hear it. Go settle it yourselves. Now go away. GO!”<\/p>\n
How long d’you think I can keep playing both sides against the middle? One of these days, this will surely come back to bite me in the ass…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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