Sadly, a typical start to the day in our house when the kids were younger. Sidney & Grady, with tears streaming down their faces are squaring off in the upstairs hall. Grady appears to be the most coherent - everything's relative - so I asked him what happened. "Sid kicked me in the nuts" he accused.
I turned to Sid "Did you kick your brother in the ahh .." - stumbling for want of a better term - "nuts ?" I ask. Unrepentantly she answers in the affirmative. I lecture her on the perils of kicking Grady in that part of his anatomy and finish up by asking her why she did it. "Because he hit me first ..." she replies ".. and I was aiming for his head". Glad to hear the karate lessons paid off, and OK, so hers was not necessarily an unprovoked attack and I turn back to Grady and give him a similar lecture.
Finally thinking I have convinced them of the error of their ways, I inquire as to why Grady pummeled Sid in the first place, totally gobsmacked by his answer "Because she was watching me clean my teeth." WTF ? The best part ? they of swollen nuts, sore stomach and tear-stained faces were heading off to school for picture day.
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