Parenting 101

Conflict Resolution

Goal: To teach your children how to resolve a problem without resorting to name calling or violence, and to be able to do it on there own.

Set-up: Two of my children get into an argument (May May and Prince Charming) It ends with Prince Charming thinking he has won and May May stomping off..........No name calling , no hitting, best of all no me involved.
Problem solved right?
Wrong.

Later that night my brother (Hippie Brother) Come to me and says
"Do you know what May May did to Prince Charming?)"

Me "No I don't .....but if they didn't tattle to me they didn't want or need me to be involved"

Hippie Brother "Yea but it's really gross."
Then he proceeds to tell me what happen.

Sporty Girl, having lost the argument went to the liter box and found a nice piece of cat shit, covered in liter, and put it in Prince Charming's bed. Problem solved............till Hippie Uncle ratted them out.
Sooooo......now I have to get the perpetrators and have a talk.(over BudMans laughter)
Apparently this has been going on for some time now, cause in the end they all ratted each other out and said they all had done this to each other.

But still in the end I think I did my job in the first place..........
No violence.........................check
No name calling...................check
Solve problems on your own...........check.

Yep..........I've done my job!!!!!!

Budman and I at his award ceremony.

He was 2nd in the nation!!!!

And yes two of those drinks behind me are mine.

Hey........ can I help it if the line for the open bar was to long???