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Patti

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Do your children get along? You know play with one another for the most part without trying to create serious injury to the other? LOL!!

My boys got some new Yu-gi-oh cards tonight and they have been playing nicely at the kitchen table for the past hour... of course I am being a cool Mom and giving them chips and a big bottle of pop too!:giggle:giggle
 
Usually, but boy can they get going, too. It seems to mostly be the one that is around 5-7 and the next one in age to them. Now that the youngest is 7, the fighting has gone down a LOT. The older ones don't really fight, which is nice. Finally. After 19 years of this mom thing, I'm tired. lol
 
My two get along very well! Even when they were small the got along. But when my DD went off to Military my son missed her alot. Now she calls and will talk with him for hours. They are only 2 years apart. But its funny to listen to them sometimes. They just crack me up.
 
My boys are ususally pretty good! They are best friends and worst enemmies. But for the most part they can't live without eachother and if one of them isn't there (which is very rare) the other is always looking for him.
 
My son Madison is almost 13 and my daughter, Saige is about to turn 10 on the 1st. They, for the most part, get along. It's nice to separate them every now and then so they miss each other. Like sometimes if my hubs goes camping, he might just take one of them to give them a break.
 
My high school son really misses his college sister. They text each other all the time! Then she'll send me screenshots of the cute texts for Project Life!
 
They don't fight anymore! My youngest (20) and my oldest (28) are very close and talk on the phone almost every day. My oldest lives in Texas (moving home for a bit in July). The three at home get along...but one of mine is bipolar (he's 24) and some things can still set him off. It used to be really bad when he was younger and it was always something towards his younger brother. I think it was always jealousy but it made things very difficult at times and was hard for Eric to have any friends over because of it.Pat

BTW Patti...my boys were YuGiOh freaks! One of mine even won some championship and has this big old trophy they sent him! LOL They stopped playing when they were at a game somewhere, one of my boys turned his back for a minute, and some kid grabbed his binder full of cards and ran. He had won a lot of those cards and had quite a collection, so that was it...he said no more. Another had all his stolen out of his backpack at school. It's so frustrating when things like that happen. They did have a lot of fun playing it though...several neighbor kids played too and we'd have games going here all the time!
 
My children do pretty well. I love the exceptional days when they are extremely loving and dread the days when they constantly fight. But I just grin and bare it and hope tomorrow will be better. I'd say my kids are just the average siblings. They each know that they are cared for by the others. Here's a little funny: we just watched 'Courageous'. If you haven't seen it, I totally recommend it, it is SO good. It's a faith based film about the absence of fathers in the lives of their children. Anyways. It makes you look at your relationships with your kids and each other and reevaluate things. We watched it with the kids. And tonight after we go through the bedtime routine, I hear sobs from my 6 year old daughters room. I go in there and ask her what is wrong and she cries out that she is a mean sister. Broke my heart, but I was thankful for that teaching opportunity. I want her to know how much she is loved by her siblings and in return, hope that she understands how important it is that THEY know she cares for them. She is the sweetest thing. Always writing notes to her big sister and drawing pictures for her brothers. Sometimes we forget the good. Concentrate on the bad. I love reminding her how amazing she is and how lucky our family is to have her.
 
Jacque, I took my boys to see that movie! LOVED IT!! A great eye opener/reminder for me, as a parent. kwim?

Debra, it has been Yu-gi-oh, Bakugan, Chaotic, Pokemon... crazy! Yeah I can't believe how expensive the whole thing is and really have no idea what the purpose is..lol!! I can't imagine your sons heartbreak of having his 'prize possessions' stolen, that truly bites!!
 
my boys love each other like crazy, but they are fighting each day. I hate when they do it and hope they will stop with that, soon. There seems always to be a reason to fight, that I just can´t see LOL but it is making me crazy. they are almost 4 and 6 years old. does it stop one day? please give me some hope ;)
 
They get along, I guess. SS is only with us 30% of the time, and right now, it's only weekends, so that + the big age difference + the gender difference, and they just don't really spend much time together playing or interacting. SS would rather play with his friends in the neighborhood or DH. Maybe once they are both older, they will have a closer relationship.
 
i would say the majority of the time mine do get on,yes they have there moments but dont all siblings,but they can play together and they have each others back if need be
 
Mine got along when they were younger for the most part but there were battles when my stepson came over to visit on the weekends. Now that they are all older, they text each other every couple of days and when my stepson and stepdaughter come to visit, they go see my sons first before they come to the house and they always go out and have some fun together at least on night when they are all together. It's a big ol' huge LoveFest! LOL (Thank goodness those days are over with for us!)
 
crazygirl said:
My children do pretty well. I love the exceptional days when they are extremely loving and dread the days when they constantly fight. But I just grin and bare it and hope tomorrow will be better. I'd say my kids are just the average siblings. They each know that they are cared for by the others. Here's a little funny: we just watched 'Courageous'. If you haven't seen it, I totally recommend it, it is SO good. It's a faith based film about the absence of fathers in the lives of their children. Anyways. It makes you look at your relationships with your kids and each other and reevaluate things. We watched it with the kids. And tonight after we go through the bedtime routine, I hear sobs from my 6 year old daughters room. I go in there and ask her what is wrong and she cries out that she is a mean sister. Broke my heart, but I was thankful for that teaching opportunity. I want her to know how much she is loved by her siblings and in return, hope that she understands how important it is that THEY know she cares for them. She is the sweetest thing. Always writing notes to her big sister and drawing pictures for her brothers. Sometimes we forget the good. Concentrate on the bad. I love reminding her how amazing she is and how lucky our family is to have her.
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Aww, Jacque!! That's so sweet :beat
 
My girls (7) and (4) fight more than not. Sometimes they will sit and play Littlest Pet Shop together for hours and it is on those days that I am thrilled! Normally Ella is yelling for Helene to get away and Helene is chasing her around trying to kiss her.
 
Jacque...I just had a friend recommend that movie to me this morning. She told me even her husband started crying during one part. I'll have to rent it soon. Such a sweet story too about your daughter!
 
For the most part, yes. They're 3.5 years and 20 months so there's a lot of fighting over silly stuff like toys. But the oldest is very protective of the youngest. And the youngest hates to be without the oldest (the other day we were touring a daycare and my oldest sat with a class for a bit and my youngest kept calling her name). I really hope they grow up close to each other!
 
My two boys are super close and get along pretty well. They also know how to push each other's buttons. They are 6 and 8, 2 1/2 years apart.
 
*is insanely jealous of you people that have kids that get along*

The boys, eh, no. They do not get along 95% of the time. Zach every now and then gets along with Bella, Ryan and Bella get along about 50% of the time.
 
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