The Worst of It

The Howler and Blondie seem to have established a One-Upmanship of despicable childhood arguement behavior.

And, worse, they keep running to me to report EVERY. BIT. OF. IT.

I hate it. I keep stressing that "if you wouldn't like it if someone did it to you..." but that's not getting through. (The Howler has mastered the appropriate use of "you're not the boss of me.") What makes it worse is that whatever Blondie does, the Howler does worse back.

The Howler is much better at owning up to her own nastiness than Blondie is. And they are human (not the demons I imagine them to be occasionally) because they always tell me their side in a way to make themselves look as innocent as possible.

It's annoying and nerve-wracking. Even the other neighborhood children scatter when they start on each other.

I'm getting tired of saying, "Learn to deal with this yourselves." and "Don't do it if you don't want it done to you."

*sigh* It's only July.