Tuesday, June 21, 2011

settling conflict

Max shifted his bed to marcus' room so that at night, he could sleep with them. But he doesn't like the corner, so he wanted to sleep on marcus' bed while marcus sleeps on max's bed.

Originally, marcus agreed, but last minute because it was rather hot at that corner, marcus went back to his own bed to sleep. Last night, after settling the kids, mabel went over to max's bed to sleep while marcus slept on mabel's bed.

Just now, marcus came to negotiate with me if he could sleep on his own bed. So i assembled all three children and asked them, this is the problem, so how to solve? Max started crying and said that macus complained to me first.

In a fit of anger, children's daddy blurted out, 'simple, shift the bed back.' and he proceeded to carry out the action of bringing the bed over. That makes max cried even more. Marcus said, ok, he will sleep on max's bed, no problem.

Inside my heart, i was fuming at children's daddy.

Asked marcus to go and tell his papa not to shift the bed, and i went to their room, closed the door and had a good talk with them. I told max that he must understand that he was the one who is bringing inconvenience to everyone and he should be grateful to marcus for accommodating him. Made the two brothers hugged each other and made max said thank you to marcus.

thumbs up for marcus for being understanding. i'll go hug marcus now.

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