Mikyla and Mallory are two of the biggest fighting siblings I've ever seen. Yes, they fight even more than my own sis and I fought. They will fight over who started the fight. I don't mean just quarreling, I mean downright pinching, hair pulling and kicking. They're both equally spoiled, petted to death, so there's no jealousy in play here. In fact, if I threaten to spank one of them, the other jumps in to her defense. The only thing I've found so far that works is to just totally seperate them. Putting them in seperate rooms makes it impossible for them to fight. However, it's not always practical. Maybe one of these days I'll come up with a solution.
The other day they got into it over a doll. I heard the commotion from the kitchen and I called out to them to stop it. They did stop, but Mallory came running in to tell on Mikyla..
"Mammy, do you know what she did?!"
"I don't want to hear it Mallory..."
She shot back lightening fast, with her hands on her hips and stomped that foot, "Well You're gonna hear it!!" Then she proceeded to tell me what Mikyla had done. I couldn't help it, when she informed me I was gonna hear it, it was all I could do not to crack up laughing and that wouldn't have done a thing but made her more angry. Sheesh.
Finally, as the evening wore on.. they got into more and more quarrels and they eventually got into a pinching match. I got a switch. Their eyes got big and they stood there staring and I told them.. "I just don't have the stomach for this. You two can just switch each other. You don't like each other anyway, you just want to hit and pinch and fight and go on, here's the switch, now have at it..."
Mikyla's eyes.. ohhhh the look in those eyes. She took that switch with relish and turned to Mallory as if she had total control of the universe and she was dang well gonna use it.
Quietly I said..."Just remember Mik.. she gets to use it on you when you're done."
I could see those wheels turning in her head.. she nodded and Mal turned around, put her behind out so she could take her spanking..and oh you never saw such gentle little taps with a switch in all your life.. tap.. tap.. tap. A limb swishing against a window in a bit of breeze hits the window with more impact than Mik used on Mallory. Smart kid that one. Then it was Mal's turn. I was a little concerned.. because Mal's smart too.. I was scared she'd think.. okay.. I got mine over, it wasn't bad.. but I'm gonna really give Mikyla a switching she won't ever forget. So I stood there ready to grab it should she swing it back to use it hard. She didn't though.. three little loving taps. That was it.
The fighting was over for the night. They played together like sisters should. Strange, eh?
Posted by juel at February 13, 2007 01:02 AM