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No I Amn’t!
My 8-year-old took time from his busy morning routine of slurping cereal and moving as slowly as humanly possible to print this label for his 6-year-old nemesis brother last week as they ate breakfast.
Not surprising. Siblings fight. It’s natural. Kids even write poems about it.
What was surprising — at least to the two combatants — is how much their dad enjoyed it. So I thought I’d share.
Your welcme.
Fighting: An Ageless Poem
Six-year-old E.R. wrote this poem as part of a school project:
Fighting
It’s my turn on the slide.
My sister fights with me.
I get somewhere first.
My sister fights with me.
I climb up the slide.
My sister fights with me.
I climb up the ladder.
My sister fights with me.
The end.
E.R.’s mom Elizabeth, who blogs at Confessions of a Mediocre Mom, submitted this piece along with this commentary:
I am an only child, and everyone tells me this is completely normal sibling stuff. I still can’t help but think that if her only inspiration is the animosity in her home life, perhaps I should put that college fund on hold and start saving for therapy instead.
We say keep the college fund going, Elizabeth, because anyone with a sibling or who has more than one child will agree:
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Poems such as this are perfectly normal.
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Poems such as this could have a hundred verses.
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Poems such as this could fill a thousand volumes.
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Poems such as this were undoubtedly etched into the walls of caves during prehistoric times.
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Poems such as this will be written a thousand years from now on whatever people write on at that time.