Is there something in the air???Parenting question...

[disneymom3]

WTH is wrong with my boys?? They are so awful lately. I told them this afternoon that they needed to go outside for at least a half an hour. The 6 yo insisted on wearing his spring jacket. I told him fine, but I thought he would be cold. Whatever. Sure enough he comes back in in less than 10 minutes crying because he is cold. Uh huh. Well let's put on your winter coat. Holey buckets!! you would have thought I was trying to scalp him or something equally as terrible. At the same time the 5 yo comes in also crying. He is cold. No he doesn't want mittens or a hat. Screaming hysterically. Fine they can both go take a nap.

Jeez. I am so tired of them being crabby. They are consantly bickering iwth each other and arguing over the dumbest things. They share a room with limited success. They are in bunkbeds that can be separated into regular twin beds. I am thinking that maybe they are just together too much and need some space so we may put them in separate rooms. (We have enough bedrooms.) Am I being a wimp or do you think this might do some good? They used to be best of friends but lately

For the record, DD 10 stayed outside for 35 minutes.

 

[mickeyboat]

My girls are 6 and 7, and sometimes, they really need to be separated. Just think how annoyed and ugly you would get being with someone 24/7. They were acting horribly at the tail end of the summer, and have improved dramatically since school started, in part because they have some time without the other one.

I find that the more outside activity they get, the better behaved they are.

I also find that just losing a little bit of sleep makes them cranky. Also the slgihtest change in routine does it.

Good luck to you, mom.

Denae

 

[disneymom3]

I think you may be right Denae. We also homeschool so though they have a couple of classes each week outside of the house where they are not together, they do spend a lot of time in the same place. I suppose I would get sick of DH if he were home all day. Maybe I would want my own room too!

 

[noodleknitter]

Sometimes the only thing that works when my house gets like that is breaking out. Getting out of the house, and doing something fun. Remembering that we actually do like one another!

And if I get really desperate, I call grandma and offer one up as cheap child labor for a couple of days (they love the time with her and she pays much better than we do!) and they really miss one another.

Hope it gets better!

 

[thotfulspot]

I don't have anything constructive to add -- my kids drive me completely up the wall sometimes with the bickering and the squalling, and then they'll play so sweetly together for the longest time, so clearly parenthood is a mystery to me -- but I just wanted to say that this reminds me of one of my favorite comedy routines.

Paraphrased, the comedian says that he and his brother used to really get into it at times, and his mother would get so exasperated that she would threaten to separate them if they didn't knock it off. He said to the audience 'Does that make sense to you? To be forced to be apart from the worst person in the world? Go ahead, Mom! Separate us! BUILD ME MY OWN WING!!'

Well, *I* thought it was funny!

 

[disneymom3]

I don't have anything constructive to add -- my kids drive me completely up the wall sometimes with the bickering and the squalling, and then they'll play so sweetly together for the longest time, so clearly parenthood is a mystery to me -- but I just wanted to say that this reminds me of one of my favorite comedy routines.

Paraphrased, the comedian says that he and his brother used to really get into it at times, and his mother would get so exasperated that she would threaten to separate them if they didn't knock it off. He said to the audience 'Does that make sense to you? To be forced to be apart from the worst person in the world? Go ahead, Mom! Separate us! BUILD ME MY OWN WING!!'

Well, *I* thought it was funny!

Yeah, I think they will be fine with the whole separate room business. They have only been together for about 6 months. DH is more resistant to it. Don't know why. He's the one who insisted we needed a 4 br when I got preg with the youngest!