Kids say the ##@! things to each other!

[hadassahchana[$]]

My four boys usually get along so beautifully - we've had more comments about their devotion to each other. However, every once in a while, I wonder what I've been raising!

Last week, my four year old kept my poor, dreamy six year old in tears for an entire day. He got up in the morning, and told his borther:"I am not Shlomo Yehudah. I killed Shlomo Yehudah, and I am a droid that looks just like him. I am not your brother!"

Moshe Yaakov came running upstairs, and I could hear him before I could see him. He was just sobbing, and said that he was sad because he didn't have a baby brother any more. When I asked him who was standing next to him, he gave me the whole explanation about the droid, etc. When I tried to convince him that it wasn't true, Shlomo Yehudah said,"It's not true. I am a droid. I programmed Mama to say that."

Of course, at this point, poor Moshe Yaakov completely lost it, and wouldn't be comforted. For the rest of the day, every time we started to do something, like have lunch, the "droid" insisted that only Shlomo Yehudah liked jam sandwiches...only Shlomo Yehudah liked to wear boots to the park...and of course, the "droid" mentioned that he really didn't need to be strapped into Shlomo Yehudah's carseat.

I spent an entire day trying to get Moshe Yaakov to believe that his brother was just being mean - and of course, Shlomo Yehudah spent even more time 'proving' that he was a droid.

What do your kids do to drive each other crazy, and drive you absolutely around the bend??

Cindy

[hadassahchana[$]]

Ok, I couldn't resist:

story #2

Last year, Shlomo Yehudah (the villain in the above tale )
came to me in tears. It seems that his older brothers found an old sales receipt, inside an Eddie Bauer bag.

They told him that they found his receipt as well as the bag he came in, and now they could take him back to the store and get their money back...

Cindy , with more grey hairs than you!

[jnbmoore]

At least it was an expensive store and they didn't get him at K-Mart or Big Lots/Odd Lots

So when does your book come out on raising your kids (vol 1 of course)

I love your stories

Bridgette
member of "one is a good number" club

[Dani257]

LOL! I wish I had thought of these when my brother and I were young.

Think I can exchange him at a K-Mart for some ballpoint pens? I doubt he'd go for much more.

[slick4591[$]]

My brother used to tell me that spinach would rot my brain. You couldn't pour it on me.

I've since grown up and love the stuff.

It really don't...right?

[pluckyduck]

Great stories, Cindy. :thumbs: We are serious about a book of your memoirs. Sunscreen Epinion is a must for inclusion. I'm still laughing about that one days later. It ain't easy being green.

My boys are really kind to one another, which does my heart good. Lately, though, Dan (the older) has taken to trying to drive Adam (the younger) a bit batty at times. When outright aggression got him in big trouble with me, he switched to "killing him with kindness". At 7, Adam's moving into an age where physical affection from his mom is much appreciated, but everybody else needs to back off a tad. Dan has decided that giving his brother big bear hugs and kisses is now mandatory whenever possible.

Now, here's Adam. He's a good boy, so he doesn't want to be a total jerk about his older brother giving him a hug, so he, sort of squinches up his face and takes it...and then Dan always pushes it too far, and Adam starts yelling, which makes Dan hug harder. Finally, I end up having to step in and tell Dan to knock it off..whereupon he protests "I was just giving him a hug." Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.

Andrea