#290
Rockstar: Mum. Lemme tell you something. If Little Miss offers you something you have to take it from her fast. Otherwise, she hits you with it. Seriously. (Little Miss retaliates) Ow.
We decided the best retaliation was for Rockstar to get to defend himself by taking away any balls, wands, katanas Little Miss digs at him with. Otherwise she was starting to really milk being the younger child.
Rockstar loves meting out this particular punishment. Offending toys are returned with wordy, fusspot lectures.
Now, if we could just figure out what he can do when she sits on his head…
*shrugs*
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Rockstar: Mum. Can I have one of Little Miss’ gems? Please? (Friend in school) wants it.
Me: See? And who was it who was once worried baby sisters weren’t any fun? Where else are you going to get gems? <Rockstar nods in agreement> And how come your (very macho, with boy sibling) friend wants gems? This is the second time you’ve been after gems for your friends.
Rockstar: <authoritatively> We all use gems we find on the playground, be-cause the girls are always dropping them, but then I said I have a little sister and so they ask me. When they’re building (Lego or paper) dragons, especially Little Miss’ blue gems look really awesome on dragons!
Me: O….kay, so sisters are good for something after all.
“I bet HIS little sister didn’t get in trouble for drawing on his face”
Rockstar: <gravely> No, no, not all. They have to be the little ones. (Other friend)’s got an older sister. That’s no good. They’re too old to play with anything interesting AND they’re bossy.
How many big sisters do we have out there? 😀
ps: I told Rockstar he has to always ask, but most of the time he can have the leftover 3D gem stickers from some wildly un-age-appropriate mosaic jewelry box I got Little Miss… She’s been peeling them off and we’ve been finding them in the most unlikely places anyways…
pic from amazon.com
For a second, I thought the title was Sisters are gems.
So Miss Rockstar is ready for small cute stickers now. She is wise enough to know that they are not food.
What to do when she sits on his head? How about prevention is better than cure – getting up before she could make a move to sit on his head.
Hahaha I should say Sisters Are Gems to Rockstar and see what he responds.
No she doesn’t really eat stickers. Most of the time, anyway. Sometimes she does it deliberately for attention. Ditto finger down her throat. This week’s been mostly a good week though (touch wood!), we’ve been working “positive reinforcement” and she kinda just suddenly had the lights switched on (i.e. she realized she can get a lot more “attention” in the form of praise or extra outings if she doesn’t do the naughty stuff… She’s even handing Rockstar his clothes after his bath when he gets home from school… Hopefully this lasts…..)
Training her not to sit on him might be easier than training Rockstar to avoid her… he is super straight and never sees it coming because she’s gotten to feigning walking by and suddenly collapsing on him while he’s watching Youtube on the bed. Ditto hitting the pause button (which, for my Mac, is the center touchpad). Howls of protest every time…