I'm feeling very upset with my boys right now. They woke up before the rest of the family this morning, and the first thing they did was run into dd's room and wake her up. She was really upset about this, and burst into mine and dh's room. I realized as soon as I woke up that I was going to be sick (we've had a bug going around here) and raced to the bathroom. By the time I finally made it out to dd's room, where the boys were, there was one unpleasant sight waiting to greet me.
When we were trying to move dd into a bed, we took her shopping with us to pick out something she liked. She chose a pretty little toddler bed with a little canopy over it. The canopy was a very big part of the draw for her; I think she liked the feeling a having a little semi-enclosed space of her own. We spent a fair bit of money to buy it for her. When I got to her room, I discovered that the boys had torn down the canopy completely and were using a couple of the rails that formerly held it up as swords. It is most likely beyond repair. They put so much force on a couple of the rails that the pieces that attached them to one another snapped in half. Dd is upset; the thing that she liked best about her bed is ruined. I've told the boys that they aren't allowed to go into their sister's room unless she's okay with it; I just don't know what else to do. They seem to feel like dd's and my unhappiness is some kind of joke. What would you do?
When we were trying to move dd into a bed, we took her shopping with us to pick out something she liked. She chose a pretty little toddler bed with a little canopy over it. The canopy was a very big part of the draw for her; I think she liked the feeling a having a little semi-enclosed space of her own. We spent a fair bit of money to buy it for her. When I got to her room, I discovered that the boys had torn down the canopy completely and were using a couple of the rails that formerly held it up as swords. It is most likely beyond repair. They put so much force on a couple of the rails that the pieces that attached them to one another snapped in half. Dd is upset; the thing that she liked best about her bed is ruined. I've told the boys that they aren't allowed to go into their sister's room unless she's okay with it; I just don't know what else to do. They seem to feel like dd's and my unhappiness is some kind of joke. What would you do?
