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The girls get along so well sometimes, we smile just observing them play together, enjoying each other’s company.<\/p>\n
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However, they spend a lot of time squabbling too. Zara the annoying one, Zaria the easily annoyed. On days like that, I am the screamer<\/strike> mediator, the referee who tries to tone down their screaming and teasing.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Daddy however decided to step in, when the squabbling started just after we left the house for an outing.<\/p>\n
Daddy said, “Since the two of you cannot get along, I think we’ll have to send you to different families. One to Karen yi-yi’s house, another to Teresa yi-yi’s house. OK?”<\/span> Now you may think we should not let our kids talk back to us. However, Daddy said he prefers his daughters to respond to him intelligently, than to be so afraid of him they are quiet around him. I on the other hand, will not allow them to say use any derogatory words\/phrases like, stupid, useless, you are nothing; but I don’t discourage them from expressing themselves even if they were showing dissatisfaction towards us. That’s our parenting style anyway. You may beg to defer.<\/p>\n On another unrelated incident, we were reading a book about dinosaurs, and after the book, I told Zaria, “I think I know what dinosaur you are. You are a cry<\/strong>asaurous.”<\/span> Zara replied to me, “And you are a scold<\/strong>asaurous.”<\/span>
\nZaria was the first to react, “If you say (said) that again, I’ll kick your teeth off.”<\/span> (there was once, she even told Daddy, she’ll kick his penis if he scolded her again)
\no.O”
\nZara responded slowly and calmly, “I think you are an alien. You should just take a spaceship and go to another planet.”<\/span>
\nZaria chipped in, “Ya, go to another planet.”<\/span>
\nDaddy said, “Are you sure you want me to go to another planet? Daddy is a wise old man. Without Daddy, nobody will give you wise advice.”<\/span>
\nZara replied, “Mum is even more wiser than you.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\no.O”
\nI added, “What about you?”<\/span>
\nZara replied, “I’m the annoyed<\/strong>asauraus. I always annoy meimei!”<\/span>
\nAt least she admits.<\/p>\n<\/div>