Sibling Madness

My brother and used to fight tooth and nail whilst growing up our 5 year age gap meant that my little brother was always annoying, always trying to tag along and interfere, we just couldn't see eye to eye.

Now we get along well enough and I trumped it up to our age gap as well as us being different sex siblings, I never dreamed that I would see the same or worse with my kids... but I do and have.

I have mentioned in a previous post that we recently took to slitting the boys up during the week in order to give Gabriel and Loghan the attention they both need at this point in time, Gabriel was acting up terribly he was demanding attention that we could never give because the majority of our attention was focused on Loghan.

So its been a month or so since we started doing it and the week days have been bliss, seriously I remarked to my hubby that our home has not known such peace and harmony in a long time, we go to bed at the end of the day without frustration and everything is just so much calmer, the kids are happier, our night time routine its all just well amazing, no fighting and screaming between my 2 older monkeys, my stress levels have decreased significantly and Gabriel is much happier with more individual attention so on that hand the choice to split them has been wonderful... I do feel guilty, I want my kids together we have 3 not 2 but for now its working in the boys best interest.

However I take them to school every morning and they are together on weekends and thus begins a nightmare of hellish proportions, I don't know what it is but my older two just cannot get along or even coexist with each other they are not together for 5 minutes when they start with each other and the end result is Gabriel squealing and crying and Loghan shouting and lashing out, I just cant they are like oil and water, or a match to kindling, they are 2 years apart and I was always told they would be perfect playmates with that age gap but holy moly they are so far from it, it's just not funny, they frustrate and annoy each other to no end argh for the life of me why can they not just coexist it reminds me of Lilo and Stitch when they are arguing and Lilo is not even touching stitch but he goes shes touching me and she replies nah uh its free air, yip that's what I face every time except my two are boys and get physical when they reach breaking point which is when this momma reaches breaking point and off they are sent to their rooms, and I'm not even lying when I say 10 minutes later I go up to talk to them and one has snuck into the others room and they are playing peacefully... but no sooner are they downstairs together than they are going at each other once again.

The struggle is real, I can t even...I was very close to checking into a psyciatric facility this weekend, so incredibly close.