Family Life

Daniel came running into the room this morning complaining bitterly about Joel hitting him with this pitchfork-shaped toy. Stabbing him in the back, so to speak. Debbie calmed him down and explained that yelling and screaming was no way to sort things out, that he should use words, that he should say to Joel, “Please don’t hit me with that Joel. I don’t like it when you do that. It makes me angry and upset. Please stop.” Debbie is trying to teach the boys conflict resolution, trying to help them resolve their own differences without running to Mummy for every real or imagined transgression.

Daniel replied, “But that’s too long! If I have to say all that, by then he’s already hit me!”

Hard to know what to say to that one. The boy has a point.

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