The boys are going to pick on and at each other for the next several years at the very least. All I can do is try and keep them from maiming each other. It’s like gravity. I give.
After listening to whines and short screams for about 30 minutes from the bathroom that I was cleaning…
Sit down guys. I’m going to talk to you and you are not going to say a word. You nod your heads for “yes” or “no” when I ask you a question. Do you understand?
Yes nods. Worried looks on their faces.
You must tone it down. I’m sick of hearing all the whining and fussing. Do you understand?
Yes nods and some picking at their fingernails.
I have listened to you two all morning long and you just won’t listen and leave each other alone. Have you guys ever hear the term “batshit crazy”?
No nods and they slide closer together on the couch.
Well, it’s a special kind of crazy. It’s the kind of crazy that moms and stepmoms get when they can’t take it anymore. When you’re batshit crazy, you might send your kids to their rooms on Saturday night and not let them come out til it’s time for school on Monday morning. And I don’t play. If I send you there - you’ll stay there.
Gasps from the crowd.
So don’t make me go all BC on you, okay?
I know it wasn’t the kindest way to phrase things but it really was the nicest thing that I could get out of my mouth at the time.
I think I need to go all batshit crazy on them once. Let them feel the Wrath of Anna and then they will know I’m not kidding. They are good kids but the picking on each other has reached an all time high. I can handle the verbal stuff but then it turns to touching/pinching/poking and then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
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Chickie, oh the memories of kids. I remember those times when my sons were so mean to one another. I took a hockey stick and went hockey on their asses. Sure scared the heck out of them.
I did not hit them with it but I did send it flying into the wall. All this time they were scared of dad and thought I was the nice one. To this day they love to tell that story. I will pass my hockey stick on to a friend in need.
I laughed my self silly with your lecture to the boys. I bet they know what batshit crazy is now. It is you and Sweety against them. Unite or be controlled by teenagers!
November 15th, 2008 2:22 pm
THIS will be the story they tell: Our Bonus Mom (I’m not a “step” fan) was the Nice One. The Sane One. The Steady One.
We thought we could get away with ANYTHING.
We were WRONG.
She didn’t hit us. She didn’t yell. She barely even raised her voice…
I’m thinking you have things under control, there Chickie. Got any room for a semi-mouthy eight year old girl?
November 15th, 2008 2:50 pm
I feel your pain Chickie! Sometimes I lament the fact that Madison isn an only child then when her & Brittany are together and the whining and fighting begin I think “Okay I can send one of them home if it gets TOO bad!”
I love how you gave them a warning though LOL
November 15th, 2008 10:55 pm
Bravo for you.
Sounds like you keep your kids under control. . . as they should be.
Too many dumb shit parents these days letting their kids get away with EVERYTHING.
If I hear one more parent say “I just can’t control my kids” I’m gonna slap the snot outta them.
November 16th, 2008 10:31 am
When my oldest (Lisa) was living here, she and Jackie (my middle daughter) just did not get along at all. Lisa was older than Jackie and I think she thought she was her mother or something and Jackie just resented the crap out of that. The two of them were at each other all the time. It was constant. It was mind-numbing. It was brutal.
Finally one night when my son James was about 3, the girls got into it big time. It was a knock down drag out fight. My wife wasn’t home so I decided to just let the two of them go at it and settle the whole thing once and for all. I picked up my son and walked out on the deck where I watched from kitchen window.
After a few minutes of serious beating the crap out of each other, my oldest daughter locked herself in her room and started screaming for me to come and get her because Jackie was trying to beat the door down to get to her.
Heh, heh, heh.
The two of them have been best friends ever since. Ultimately it is a matter of respect and that is what all kids need to learn.
November 16th, 2008 11:12 pm
Force them to eat kimchi, that’ll take the wind out of their sails.
November 18th, 2008 7:28 pm
Finding Pam - I will take your hockey stick and put it to good use! The boys learned long ago that I don’t make idle threats.
We were in the car and they were throwing a ball around in the backseat. I told them if it hit me it was going out the window. It did and I tossed it. Sweety thought I’d pretended to toss it out and was shocked when we got home and he asked me for the ball and I told him it was back on the interstate. The boys still talk about that.
Renn - I’ll take an eight year old girl! I need more estrogen in the house!
Patti - It was give them a warning or just explode. I didn’t want to traumatize them too much though.
Sagacious Hillbilly - I hear you! I was at a baseball game last night and a woman was talking about how her kid was always back talking his dad and they just couldn’t control him “but what can you do? it’s how kids that age are.” Um, no. The boys are the same age as her kids and they wouldn’t dream of pulling the crap that hers does.
Mike - I figure something like that is going to happen here. BB likes to give LB shit but what he doesn’t realize is when LB gets mad - he is CRAZY. Like you could break his arm and he’ll come back to hit you with a stick while his busted arm is flopping around. My money is on LB.
Phos - We paid BB a dollar to eat some a long time ago. Now, whenever we’re having something to eat that he doesn’t like, I remind him that if he can eat kimchi for money that he can eat anything.
LB will actually eat some with rice if the mood hits him.
November 19th, 2008 12:10 pm
Good for you, Chickie. How have they been since “The Big Talk”? Sometimes the only way I guess is to threaten to bring out your Big Gubs! And ‘BATSHIT CRAZY’ is a very big gun!
I don’t think I could take it, myself…..I mught have thrown cold water on them both! (lol)
November 19th, 2008 12:23 pm
Ummm … not being a parent I’d like request that you turn on your web cam the next time this “batshit crazy” takes hold … please??!!
November 23rd, 2008 3:52 pm
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