These two fight over anything and everything the other one wants or has or does. Type or color of plate their food is on, crayons, who gets to throw away Taylor's dirty diapers . . . you know, all the important stuff. Even who gets to say the prayer. (And of course if one of them doesn't want to say the prayer then the other doesn't either. UNTIL one of them decides they do. Then the fighting begins. Of course!).
Prayer. Really kids? Every. Single. Time? I am hoping a prayer chart helps. I LOVE that they LOVE to say prayers, but I'm pretty sure certain they are missing the point. And to be fair, if we ask Capri to say the prayer Calin then it's him throwing the main fit. And if we ask "Who wants to say the prayer?" we get the worst of both.
Making a prayer chart is on todays to-do list. I hope it helps!
4 comments:
this is hilarious! Can't wait to witness these prayers in person soon!
Oh man. That's rough! How do you even deal! I would just be a terrible mother and say it myself every time. Your kids do say excellent prayers though :)
Erica I am SO excited for next weekend!!!! Yay!!! And yes, unfortunately you will witness way too many of these fights hehe.
Michaela, I made a prayer chart too haha, because we deal with the same thing. I'm not sure if its because they are so close in age, or what. I put a picture of jack with "jack's turn to say prayer" and then on the back glued a picture of elena that said "Elena's turn to say prayer" and then hole punched it, put some yard through it, and hung it on a hook/nail. Then whoever didn't say the prayer got to go over and turn the picture over to show it was their turn 'next time'. They'll still fight over it for a bit (mine did still) but after a little while it got so much better. But then my 3rd pumpkin started to get interested in saying prayers, so we will see what I do now.
And we try to do the fun "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" rule in our home over the whining of the colored plates, or that they got served first, etc. - but yeah, honestly it took a long time for them to get that too, and a long time of taking away food, asking them to go to their rooms, etc. It's a constant battle, but I do notice it happens less then before. Maybe its working?
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