My kids do not just fight...they knock down drag out...on the floor mom has to come in and pull them apart. And that is just when they are doing it for ''FUN''.
My middle and youngest think they are sumo wrestlers...Or something. And it is a constant thing all day long. They go in on my bed(because it is king size and very low to the floor...even still I have pillows along the sides in case one of the kids were to roll of the bed at night...because it is close to the walls on the sides)and will be doing drop kicks into each other.
Mind you the fighting real or for play does not last long...But It seems like every fifteen minutes I am having to go in and break them up.
Now when it is angry fighting. The yelling gets loud. It gets bad. And Normally one over the other ends up getting hurt. This is when things get messy...because I can never get the WHO started it out of any body. SO nine times out of ten, they all go into time out.
Last night it was over my oldest coming out and telling me my middle had been hit with a belt by my youngest.
When I went back to find out what had happened my middle guy told me Brody(my oldest)had been the one to hit him. I could believe this, because my youngest was in the same place I had seen him last...doing the same thing...watching Sprout....My oldest was the one acting guilty. So with process of elimination, my oldest was given the time out. Then the story from my middle guy starts to change..and the bottom falls out...I had punished the wrong kid...it turns out my middle kiddo was just being sensitive, that nothing really had happen. Brody had made him mad.
Er, so now mine is more of just a vent...I just wish that they could figure out the fighting for whatever reason is really pointless.