Sometimes They're Not So Nice
Sometimes my kids are really sweet and lovable...but, like most kids, they definitely have their moments.
This morning, the kids were sitting down to do their homeschooling, and Caleb brought me this message that Bonnie had written to him (while she was supposed to be copying her spelling words). It said:
"There are 3 resos's that I hat you.
1.) Your nose is liek a pig nose
2.) Your breth smells bad
3.) Your shrit is drity
But I do love you.
I must admit, that "but I do love you" at the end (not to mention the badly misspelled words) cracked me up- but I did not let Bonnie know this.
I gave Bonnie a lecture on being hateful - I don't allow them to say they hate each other. I explained how hurtful those words could be - because Caleb seemed really hurt about it (although the day before, he had written a note saying, "Bonnie booger"- I had confiscated it and saved it for evidence in a future situation. lol), I explained to her how hurtful those words could be.
For her punishment, I made her a list of the misspelled words in the note, and told her to write each word correctly 10 times each. I felt like it would the perfect punishment to fit the crime (plus it had the added bonus of drilling spelling words into her head).
And I had her apologize to Caleb and tell him that she loved him. She explained to me that the note said she did love him, but I told her that obviously, the letter wasn't very convincing at getting that message across, and to say it again.
Now they're getting along much better.
One thing I love to do when the kids get in a squabble is make them stand right in front of each other, and look into each others eyes for a while, saying nothing.
Almost always, they will start making faces at each other and laughing.
Once they do that, I tell them to give each other a hug and tell each other they're sorry. Then everything seems to be all right again in their worlds.
And mine!!
This morning, the kids were sitting down to do their homeschooling, and Caleb brought me this message that Bonnie had written to him (while she was supposed to be copying her spelling words). It said:
"There are 3 resos's that I hat you.
1.) Your nose is liek a pig nose
2.) Your breth smells bad
3.) Your shrit is drity
But I do love you.
I must admit, that "but I do love you" at the end (not to mention the badly misspelled words) cracked me up- but I did not let Bonnie know this.
I gave Bonnie a lecture on being hateful - I don't allow them to say they hate each other. I explained how hurtful those words could be - because Caleb seemed really hurt about it (although the day before, he had written a note saying, "Bonnie booger"- I had confiscated it and saved it for evidence in a future situation. lol), I explained to her how hurtful those words could be.
For her punishment, I made her a list of the misspelled words in the note, and told her to write each word correctly 10 times each. I felt like it would the perfect punishment to fit the crime (plus it had the added bonus of drilling spelling words into her head).
And I had her apologize to Caleb and tell him that she loved him. She explained to me that the note said she did love him, but I told her that obviously, the letter wasn't very convincing at getting that message across, and to say it again.
Now they're getting along much better.
One thing I love to do when the kids get in a squabble is make them stand right in front of each other, and look into each others eyes for a while, saying nothing.
Almost always, they will start making faces at each other and laughing.
Once they do that, I tell them to give each other a hug and tell each other they're sorry. Then everything seems to be all right again in their worlds.
And mine!!
Posted by Bethany at 9/23/2008 4:35 PM 
Categories: My kids and the cute things they say and do, Funny Stuff, Parenting
Categories: My kids and the cute things they say and do, Funny Stuff, Parenting
I met one of my best IRL friends off through my site! She had a sidewalk counselors site and I emailed her asking for info on becoming a sidewalk conselor. She was like "oh, I know you from your site!" and then I realized that I knew *her* other site as well.
It's so crazy how we're able to make connections to people we'd otherwise never meet because of the internet!
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Lauren, thanks for the comments..that is so cool! And by the way, congratulations on your little baby!! I really want to hear details...do you have a new blog yet? How are you feeling? Can you send pictures? Is it a girl or a boy? I wasn't able to follow up at Jill's blog because i was still sick...I would love to hear more about it! miss you!
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I don't have a new website yet, but I'm going to work on getting one today. Not having a blog is *really* hard!
We had a little girl, and her name is Anna. I have pictures, but you have to go to the hospital's website to view them. I'll email you the link. I miss you too! I'll definitely be around more now that we're settled into our new house.
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Wow, What a wonderful experience. Being able to be a living witness and encourgement to someone is great. It sounds like you were a real blessing to Allison. I'm heading over to check out her blog.
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Well, isn't that sweet! How neat that she actually came up to you and introduced herself! Glad you guys got together. My mom just gave me 10# of blueberries yesterday. I think I've eaten a pound of them already
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Isn't that wonderful! I'm of to check out Allison's blog now.
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I thought you might find this petition interesting as i did. It is a petition for states rights to allow joint custody to both parent in the case of divorce, instead of giving sole custody to one parent. Our children need fathers and mothers. If you read the entire petition of this bill being passed, it states that 40% of children whos mothers have sole custody havent seen there father but once in the last 12 months. Please help our children with this. They all deserve a daddy, don't they?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/urge-the-us-house-of-representatives-to-pass-h-con-res241-expressing-the-support-for-the-enacting-of
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What a small world!
I was reading a blog sometime last year...mother of many I think is her name (Amy).....well anyway she was describing her Wednesday. She went to co-op & stopped at Walmart or some such store in an Amish area. I thought to myself that sounded like the food co-op I go to on Wed. and I live near an amish community. It turned out she did go to the same co-op as me! What a small world.
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I was thinking of that too!
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Hey there, that's a really sweet blog! Thanks for writing about me! I'm jealous that you got a nap yesterday, Anya wouldn't let me, she was so excited the whole day about her new friends. She had to call her Daddy at work and tell him about them too. I think I fixed the comments section on my site now as well. We are about to update my site soon so it will be a little more user friendly as well. Talk to you soon, have a great day.
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Cute story, Bethany!
I've often wondered if I would ever bump into someone from Blog-land in real life. Now I know what would happen if I did!
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What a small world indeed.
I love when I can tell stories like this. We are talking in my graduate classes about the power of the internet these days. It really is amazing how you can connect to anyone, anywhere in the world in an instant.
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Hey! That's pretty neat!
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Speaking of being famous...my post about you is featured on this page in the blog list
http://stanford.wellsphere.com/wellmix360/stomach-noise
I can't stop laughing!
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LOL How in the world did you find that??
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Once in a while I'll get a really weird comment, so I'll go into sitemeter and see where people are finding me. One of the referral links said Stanfford and that caught my eye so I followed it and found the page on stomach noises, and there we were!
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It works better if you copy and paste rather than click the link, BTW.
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