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How to cope with 2 children!

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Don't get me wrong, my boys are lovely and I thoroughly enjoy them! And when they are on their own with me they are fine. But you know those times when they won't stop bickering? Like arguing over whose choice to watch on TV; who had the toy first; and on and on! :shock: A lot of the time they do play really well together, but does anyone have any tips on things to distract them when they get into arguing mode? :? Before I bang their heads together!! :shock:

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I make mine go outside to play, whatever the weather :shock:

 

I've also been known to turn the TV off if they can't agree - at least it unites them against me! :lol:

 

Or suggest a juice and biscuit.

 

If all else fails I put them on the step to 'time out' and calm down.

 

They drive me mad A LOT and they're only 3 and 5!

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Tough one Snowy, I know when my 2 were little there were times when they bickered all the time (even sometimes over imaginary things :roll: ) and at the time it seemed endless

 

I used to use time out to calm down, no tv if they couldn't decided on which program, change of scene - ie play outside, quick walk round the block to post an envelope :D

 

There were times when I could have banged their heads together or sat in a corner and sobbed............I actually found myself thinking the other day that I haven't heard my 2 argue for a while now...........so there is hope..........it's just taken them until they are 14 and nearly 16 to manage a few weeks of calm :D:D

 

Thinking of you...............

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Bronze,

 

I'm glad to hear that my son isn't the only one to strip off in protest at a punishment. Last time I made him go inside as punishment for hitting one of the chickens, I looked round to check on him and found him standing against the patio door, starkers :roll:

 

Normally, the only punishment that works in our house is to socially isolate my son for a couple of minute, usually by dumping him in his cot

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Why do you think I'm checking the Omlet forum at 6pm on a school night? Escaping the boys, of course! Mine bicker most of the time and when they play outside they invent new ways of annoying me. Filling a plastic bag with dirt then pouring it down the slide was today's innovation.

 

I find that restorative glass of wine that I used to have with my dinner, I now have with their dinner.... :shock:

 

Jo

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Filling a plastic bag with dirt then pouring it down the slide was today's innovation.

 

Sounds a lot like something my two terrors would get up to. Last week they filled the sink and 'made soap' by mixing toothpaste, soap, kandoo and whatever else they could get their hands on. The water was all the way up to the overflow with the tap still running by the time I got there :shock:

 

I often pretend I can't see them misbehaving - I feel better for it and they often loose interest quite soon after. Unless it's going to do huge damage to the house/garden/them I try to ignore it. At the moment they are obsessed with Poo Poo - talking about it and using the words at every opportunity.

 

I don't think the language improves as they get older, if my two 'little brothers' are anything to go by! :D

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I am useless with small children, anything between the age of 2 and 6 brings me out in hives. Now I have 2 teenagers I feel I have found my 'mum niche' and we all get along alot better. Having said that I used to have a rather good line in distraction- quite simply I would do something so mad that the boys would stop fighting/grabbing/screaming and stand looking at me with their mouths open. It would nearly always break the spell and defuse the situation. Favourites included putting a cushion on my head and quacking like a duck, doing a headstand, reciting 'The Highwayman' with saucepan lid cymbals accompaniment, and wearing oven gloves like dog's ears and howling.

No wonder they both turned out the way they did...

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:lol::lol::lol:

I knew I coould trust you all to make me laugh! It is just so good to know you are not alone sometimes! Mine are 3 and 5 - and just like all yours, you can guarentee that if they are playing 'nicely' together, they are most definitely getting up to some kind of mischief :lol:

 

Love your suggestions Rhapsody - just off to find the oven gloves. If you all hear howling, don't worry, it's just me breaking up an argument! 8)

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you can guarentee that if they are playing 'nicely' together, they are most definitely getting up to some kind of mischief

 

This was the outcome of Alex playing nicely upstairs in his own last week...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=475178&l=7baf7&id=663092293

 

Was it you, Snowy, who had the curly topped boy who had a big boy haircut?

 

This is Alex, aged 2, before he had all his curls chopped

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=224621&l=08261&id=663092293

Now he's just got very wiry hair, not a curl in sight :(

 

Jo

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I am useless with small children, anything between the age of 2 and 6 brings me out in hives. Now I have 2 teenagers I feel I have found my 'mum niche' and we all get along alot better. Having said that I used to have a rather good line in distraction- quite simply I would do something so mad that the boys would stop fighting/grabbing/screaming and stand looking at me with their mouths open. It would nearly always break the spell and defuse the situation. Favourites included putting a cushion on my head and quacking like a duck, doing a headstand, reciting 'The Highwayman' with saucepan lid cymbals accompaniment, and wearing oven gloves like dog's ears and howling.

No wonder they both turned out the way they did...

 

 

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::wink:

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I find that restorative glass of wine that I used to have with my dinner, I now have with their dinner.... :shock:

 

Jo

 

Jo, mine gets earlier and earlier!

 

Luckily mine have separate bedrooms - when it all get too much I send them to their rooms and tell them they can't come out til dinner time. Also, as we live in a 1930's house, the door handles are too high for them to use effectively so I can threaten them with shutting the door if they don't stay put.

 

Works for me - now where's the corkscrew?

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I am sooooooooo glad I'm not the only one who regularly reaches the end of her tether with her children.

 

I've often said that I must be being punished for something I did in a previous life - I've got 4 :!:

 

I've got 3 boys aged 17, 10 and 9 and in my case they are definitely the most mischievous (I'm being very polite here) - my daughter is 14 and has always been an :angel:

 

I have also come to the conclusion that boys don't grow up, they just get bigger

 

:lol::lol:

 

Lisa

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I have also come to the conclusion that boys don't grow up, they just get bigger

 

:shock: That is so true! I think the 3 and 5 year old can be naughty, but put them together with husband and 16 year old and it's like world war three! I hide in the dining room with my sewing and some loud music and try to ignore it :oops::roll:

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I have also come to the conclusion that boys don't grow up, they just get bigger

 

I'll second that :roll: My eldest son is 26, he has a son of 2 and his g.friend is 5 months pregnant with the second. The minute he gets home from work, instead of helping his g.friend, who also works full time, he sits down and plays on his stupid Playstation thingy :evil:

 

Tessa

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My two are exactly the same! My daughter is 10 and a half and my son has just turned 8. They are :shock::shock: . They have their own bedrooms and are sent there with alarming regularity! My daughter is now starting to get hormonal which has made things 100 times worse! If you speak to her she either shouts or is in tears! :roll: I love them dearly but I also love the peace and quiet after 8pm... :wink:

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