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Bunny
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We all do this. As our older kids grow out of their clothes, we put them away for when the younger ones are big enough to wear them. This is nothing new in our house. husband and I have saved all of difficult child's clothes for easy child since difficult child was a baby and easy child was not even a thought in our heads.
Yesterday I took most of easy child's clothes out of his drawers since he is getting too big for them and replaced them with the old clothes from difficult child. Fine. No big deal, right? Not in difficult child world!! This morning easy child is wearing one of the shirts that I put into the drawer yesterday and difficult child comes screaming at me that easy child stole his clothes. I calmly explained to him that easy child did not STEAL anything. I GAVE him the clothes that difficult child does not fit into anymore. Then he tells me that I stole his clothes and he wants them back. I told him no. He is too big for them and they fit easy child now. difficult child, as the oldest, gets all new clothes while easy child has to wear old ones. Of course, when I won't give him his way what does he do? He runs to daddy. husband told him the same thing I did.
difficult child carried on about this half an hour, having a fi at me when I went downstairs to do laundry. I said, "If you want me to really steal your clothes, that can be arranged. By law all I have to give you is seven outfits, one for each day of the week. Everything else you have is extra and I will take it away if you don't close your mouth and get yourself into even more hot water than you're already in!"
Amazingly, I have not heard one more word about it.
Just to clarify, easy child does not only get hand me downs. He gets new things, too, but alot of what he has are the things that once belonged to difficult child and were good enough to save.
Pam
Yesterday I took most of easy child's clothes out of his drawers since he is getting too big for them and replaced them with the old clothes from difficult child. Fine. No big deal, right? Not in difficult child world!! This morning easy child is wearing one of the shirts that I put into the drawer yesterday and difficult child comes screaming at me that easy child stole his clothes. I calmly explained to him that easy child did not STEAL anything. I GAVE him the clothes that difficult child does not fit into anymore. Then he tells me that I stole his clothes and he wants them back. I told him no. He is too big for them and they fit easy child now. difficult child, as the oldest, gets all new clothes while easy child has to wear old ones. Of course, when I won't give him his way what does he do? He runs to daddy. husband told him the same thing I did.
difficult child carried on about this half an hour, having a fi at me when I went downstairs to do laundry. I said, "If you want me to really steal your clothes, that can be arranged. By law all I have to give you is seven outfits, one for each day of the week. Everything else you have is extra and I will take it away if you don't close your mouth and get yourself into even more hot water than you're already in!"
Amazingly, I have not heard one more word about it.
Just to clarify, easy child does not only get hand me downs. He gets new things, too, but alot of what he has are the things that once belonged to difficult child and were good enough to save.
Pam