I've been thinking about this topic for the last several days now and because I am in the dreaded afternoon carpool line, I figured I'd post. So here it goes...
As I was folding some of the never ending laundry I listened to the commotion that was going on downstairs. A majority of the time I completely ignore the ridiculous bickering over who sat by who first, who is being mean to who, or who got the last crumb from the box of donuts sitting on the counter (this was seriously an argument the other day)... I could write a book of the thousands of petty crap our children argue over. But listening today made me wonder, how in the heck we were going to get on a boat and sail without someone going overboard!?! Our children are older so if someone goes overboard it won't be by accident. Don't get me wrong, our children have never physically harmed one another. But I did witness my oldest push his younger brother off the side of the Catalina this past summer. Gabe then grasped the life line and yanked loose the stanchions. 😩
I've been more in tune with their disagreements over these petty issues the past several days and it has me wondering if we can do this without losing our sanity. My husband and I have very little patience when it comes to their arguing. It usually ends in my husband telling the kids to get a broom, mop, shovel, and rake...A microphone slowly decends from the ceiling and I announce "Leeeeeeeeet's get ready to deep cleaaaaaannn!" 😆 But that only fixes it temporarily.
This is something we definitely have to work on to keep someone from going overboard! Fun! 🙄
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