Big brother Sam is twelve. That is three and a half years older than sweet baby Gavin. Since the day Gavin was born, Sam has been constantly picking on his little brother. It all started with an innocent "let me toss my big metal Tonka Truck into Gavin's crib(when he is 3 months old) for him to play with" and "oops it bonked him on the head and made him cry. Hey let me see what else I can do to him." This one act led into many incidences over the last eight years.
In Gavin's defense, the poor child has had to build up
a repertoire of insults for Sam to combat his constant heckling. Finally, after eight years of abuse, Gavin has taken about all he could handle. Gavin has finally got enough size on him to compete physically. Now Gavin has great GROSS MOTOR SKILL but no fine. You can only imagine what that must look like.
What does a parent do with brothers that wake up in the morning and start their day insulting each other which ultimately winds up with shoving, yelling, crying and tattling. We have tried putting them in their room, taking away their computer, talking to them and then now we are yelling at them. By the way that does nothing but contribute to the violence and make everything louder.
Finally one day Canadian Man Bill said to Gavin "Just say Thank You Sam, May I have Another?".
"I tried but that doesn't work. Sammy keeps saying stuff like your face is so ugly, it's scaring all the little kids."
"Just take the high road Gavin. Be the bigger man!"
What does that mean Gavin asked. Bill immediately hollered "Uuuusshhh! How what does be the bigger man mean?"
As I was pondering the answer saying "well....."
Gavin blurts out " you mean like Ghandi dad?"
Bill looks to Gavin and says "that is exactly what I mean!!!"
Later Bill says to me in a somewhat accusatory tone " Who told Gavin about Ghandi and how would he know what kind of person Ghandi was?"
Now why would he suspect me....just because I have some Indian blood in me doesn't mean I'm talking all about the home country all the time. Ha! I'd say that was profiling going on right here in my own home. Good thing he's my baby's daddy!
