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Carol Perkins: Grands refereeing sibs' back seat fights Carol addresses a universal trial for parents: Refereeing back seat fights between siblings. For grandparents, the spats can be a major crisis - as Carol relates how the grand-boys caused a grand to snap. Next previous Carol Perkins column: Carol Perkins: Celebrity sighting leads to booking By Carol Perkins Guy stopped the car before we reached the main road. "One of you get out and ride with Jon and Carla." They were following us. "Please, Papa, we'll quit hitting each other," JC begged. I am adding, "Oh, come on, they'll quit." Papa had "had the lick" so to speak. He meant business. He declared that when he told our kids to quit doing something, they quit. I don't remember it that way. Jon got out of his car and came to ours. "What's going on?" "One of these boys needs to ride with you all." Guy was steaming. "We'll stop hitting each other," Noah said this time. Jon wasn't listening. "JC, you get in the car with us." The whining began but soon ended. Jon is immune to whining; he has three under the age of twelve and the daughter who can whine with the best of them. We were only going to Barren River Lodge to have lunch with Guy's sister, but this trip was too long for Guy's patience to last. Sometimes we grandparents reach our limit. Guy has a shorter time span. 7 & 9 year old boys get along well until they get in car What we noticed in the three days the two boys were together (ages 9 and 7) was that they got along remarkably well until they were in the same vehicle. Then one "touched" the other or one wanted to play a game the other one had or a battery died and the charger was under the seat and on and on. On a short trip to Glasgow I ordered one of the two to sit in the second row of seats and the other in the third. That didn't keep them from annoying each other. At home they were free to roam and play but in the car, they turned on in the confined space. I have concluded that the word "no" has little significance to youngsters. "Don't" even has less meaning. "Go do..." even less. Then in retrospect, I don't think our own children responded well to those words, either. "Mama, can I stay up just ten more minutes?" "No, you need to go to bed." "Five more minutes?" Negotiating at bedtime has many cycles - goes on and on "Well, okay, but then off to bed." This banter goes on with taking a bath, brushing teeth, picking up toys, and whatever else we want them to do. The child who does without being told needs a front page story in the Daily Times. Children know how to play us and always have. What is worse, we know we're being played. Noah declared on his way to the airport that he wanted to stay in Kentucky. He wanted to go with JC to his home in Brentwood and play with his toys. Jon would have allowed him to do that if he had not held a ticket in his hand. Carla would have been happy. Guy would have been relieved that they didn't want to spend two weeks poking and kicking and chasing each other at our house. When we came back home to a quiet house, Guy looked at me and said, "I miss the little fellows." I threw a pillow at him. (We'll all be together for our annual family vacation in two weeks. We'll see how Papa behaves!) - Carol Perkins This story was posted on 2015-07-16 04:21:01
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