If there is one thing I hate about being a parent it is listening to the fighting! I hate it! I can take the whining, the crying the loud play, the horsing around and even the cold hard little mrtal cars driving over my knees but gosh darn it must they fight? Hearing them argue is like fingernails running across a chalk board to me. I can't stand it I tell you! It's the worst!
Knowing this you will understand why I was forced to get creative. I didn't want to hear the fighting and I was going to do whatever was necessary to keep it from occurring as often as possible. But what to do? What to do? It seemed my two daughters who were three years apart in age argued about everything. To make matters worse they shared a room which seemed to give them even more time and opportunity to argue.
Finally one day I had an ingenious idea. I say ingenious because I swear to you it was the best idea I've ever had or came across! I share this ingenious idea with you now because this idea can save your sanity!
I decided that I would break the week up into E's days and B's days. So that each would have her own day every other day. In other words every day of the week would be assigned to each of them. So if Mon was E's day Tues would be B's day and Wednesday would be E's day etc etc. Having the day meant you got to make all choices and all things opted in your favor. So if it was E's day she got to choose what kind of juice they both drank, what they watched on TV, where she sat in the car, etc.
This made things run so much more smoothly in my house and it cut down on a great deal of the arguing. Oh don't be alarmed they still found things to argue about but it really cut down on it drastically. This can work with as many children as you have. Though I will be honest the more children you have the more difficult it is to keep track and you might want to create a chart. With two its relatively easy to remember. Besides there is nothing to worry about if you forget whose day it is they’ll be more than happy to fight it out!
