My girls are driving me nuts!!!!!

[lillygator]

They are fighting about EVERYTHING.....and I mean everything. Where they sit at the table, what plates they have, how much each other got, who's playing with what and just really STUPID things. They have cleaned more than normal today since everytime they start arguing DH and I send them on another cleaning project. They are 7 and almost 5 and today I am so ready to ship them off to a boarding school. Ugh...sorry to vent, work tomorrow is beginning to look like a vacation.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Just sending sympathy. DS has two friends over today, so I almost know how you feel (in my case it's happy noise rather than fighting, but wow is there a difference between one and three!) Hang in there until they do something cute. - You'll forget everything.

 

[All American]

I don't know if this will help, but I remember a roommate I had in college who told me that when she and her siblings would fight, they would have to sit facing each other, knees touching, and stare at each other. She said it didn't take long before they were laughing, and eventually, they stopped fighting because they hated the punishment. Good luck with your girls. My sister and I used to be at each other's throats growing up, but now we're the best of friends.

 

[tazdev3225]

My DD's are 2 years apart and as opposite as night and day. When they were little they drove me crazy with their fighting. Today they are in their early 20's and the best of friends. They even work together. I don't know if all sister's grow up to be close, I only had brothers, but there is hope. Hang in there it does get better eventually.

 

[shelbys mommy]

Your girls sound like my boys. They have been something else this past weekend. They were angels during the Christmas holidays, but this weekend I'm so ready for school to start on Tuesday. Monday is a holiday.

 

[padams]

I'll trade you my barking puppy. DS has 3 friends spending the night and the puppy is going crazy.

 

[shelbys mommy]

Deal! My baby would love a puppy!!!

 

[surfergirl602]

My girls have been like that too!! Today they have done nothing but cleaning and odd chores like moving cut wood, cleaning the bathrooms, etc. They just will not listen to me or stop fighting between themselves and I am SOOOOO sick of it!!

 

[lillygator]

what I don't understand is it's everything....one is getting over an ear infection and just a minute ago it was "why does she get medicine and I don't?" HELLO. Do you want to be sick?

 

[Minnie824]

OMG I could have written your post. Mine are 8 and 5.5 yrs and TOTALLY opposite. We were at a hotel last night and I heard for 30 min from my older one "she pulling the blankets!" and I think for the last 10 min of that, the little one was actually sleeping. Constantly hearing she's staring at me, she's bothering me, she's on my side, etc, etc. I really hope they grow out of this because it is getting really annoying lately as well.

 

[shelbys mommy]

Do they even outgrow it? Ugh....these boys are working my last nerve!!!

 

[HannaBelle]

OMG I could have written your post. Mine are 8 and 5.5 yrs and TOTALLY opposite. We were at a hotel last night and I heard for 30 min from my older one "she pulling the blankets!" and I think for the last 10 min of that, the little one was actually sleeping. Constantly hearing she's staring at me, she's bothering me, she's on my side, etc, etc. I really hope they grow out of this because it is getting really annoying lately as well.

When our kiddos have to share a bed, we pull off the sheet and blankets, as for a second set and then fold them so that each kiddo has their own "fold over" over covers. They lay on half and have the other half folder over them like a taco. We have a boy and a girl, this gives them a bit of privacy as well...at least we get no complaints of stealing the covers!

My kids do not bicker a lot but my DB and I did. My mother would make use give each other a hug and a kiss on the check. We hated that!

DH and his DS fought a lot too...his mom use to tie them together back to back until they stopped arguing. She is something special!

 

[bigbabyblues]

Must be the time of year for it, my boys have been at it too. The other night, I turned on the outside lights around 6:00 or so and told them to put on their coats and go run around the house 10 times to wear off some energy. (NOTE: It was not that cold out, I wouldn't do this last weekend when it was in the teens). Didn't help a whole lot, but they were tired when they got done, so it was in the shower and off to bed for them not long afterwards.

It rained all day today, so they've been cleaning their rooms, too.

 

[runwad]

LOL..my girls are 14 & 12 then they have their annoying litle brother who's 9 to throw in the mix and I have them all going in stereo. It is because we're coped up inside. This is never an issue when they can be outside playing. But I had to laugh cause I always make my kids clean for their punishment too. And in the summer they have to pull the weeds outside, best punishment in the world for me.

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

They are fighting about EVERYTHING.....and I mean everything. Where they sit at the table, what plates they have, how much each other got, who's playing with what and just really STUPID things. They have cleaned more than normal today since everytime they start arguing DH and I send them on another cleaning project. They are 7 and almost 5 and today I am so ready to ship them off to a boarding school. Ugh...sorry to vent, work tomorrow is beginning to look like a vacation.

You took the word right out of my mouth. My girls are 5 & 2 and they fight about everything.

 

[SandrA9810]

My sister and I fought over everything. I hardly remember the times when we were not at each other's throats. We were vicous too, since she was 5yrs old, she had the advantage of being a bit stronger and bigger than me. I had to make up for it in other ways. There was never a punishment bad enough to stop the fighting.
I can't say we're best friends now. We really have totally different views on a lot of things, but we do get along better now than then.

 

[Carys]

OP, if it helps I have two sisters and we all fought all the time growing up, but we're very very close as adults. Mum used to say she didn't worry about our fights because she knew we'd always still be friends the next day.

(We still fight about where we sit at the table on the rare occasions we're all at our parents' house Might I recommend assigning them seats permanently and saving yourself decades of trouble?)

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

It's amazing what sisters can find to fight over lol. I grew up with several cousins as neighbors and we never fought much. Now that I have two girls who are for goodness sake almost SIX years apart its like watching an episode of Maury lol..I mean what do they have in common that they can really fight over??

And sometimes its the DUMBEST things I ever heard. I do remember my cousins and I fighting in the car if we touched each other or stared..and one cousin always did this thing where he put his finger ALMOST touching you but not quite that was ANNOYING.

Now, true story lol..I was in the car the other day with the girls in the back seat and could hear them whisper arguing (they do this so not to get in trouble..like I don't notice it lol) and when I looked in the rear mirror to see what is up, here is Holly (6) with her hands covering her window giving her sister (11) the "look of evil"..I was like what are you doing?? She honestly said, Remy keeps looking out MY window at MY view!! I just took a minute to fuddle through that lol and said, scenery is community property so unless she touches, looks or fake touches you sit back and enjoy the ride kid! Craziest thing I ever heard to fight over..at this point lol.

They haven't fought much today..Remy woke us up at 7am with the yell, Mom I think something is wrong with Holly, she has like a billion red dots on her! Yep chicken pox and since we were told to seperate them in hopes Remy doesn't get them its been really peacefully quiet here lol..

 

[JOCAmom]

They are fighting about EVERYTHING.....and I mean everything. Where they sit at the table, what plates they have, how much each other got, who's playing with what and just really STUPID things. They have cleaned more than normal today since everytime they start arguing DH and I send them on another cleaning project. They are 7 and almost 5 and today I am so ready to ship them off to a boarding school. Ugh...sorry to vent, work tomorrow is beginning to look like a vacation.

Oh my, I could have written this. I have 4 kids and 3 of them of girls. They could fight over anything and everything. The youngest 2 are only 2 years apart and when they are both home, it's like WWIII in this house. Add in a 13 year old, who should know better, and I think I'm going to go insane one of these days.

I don't know if this will help, but I remember a roommate I had in college who told me that when she and her siblings would fight, they would have to sit facing each other, knees touching, and stare at each other. She said it didn't take long before they were laughing, and eventually, they stopped fighting because they hated the punishment.

I am so going to try this my younger two. Thanks for the idea.

 

[MinnieTink]

Hello and welcome to my world! My two have been bickering since they were about 7 and 4. (maybe even a little younger...ugh it just seems like forever.) Now they are 13 and almost 10. There is still bickering. It is still bad and drives me nuts. It's nice to know I'm not alone!