When Grandma Was A Little Girl - #20

Story # 20 - The twins – a fight – and someone got stabbed, me!
Have you ever had a fight with a brother or sister? Did you get hurt in a fight by hitting them or they hit you?

My twin brother and I had a fight one day. I don’t even remember what the fight was about. Isn’t it silly that brothers and sisters fight with each other? It really is silly. I just remember that we were both really mad. Gayle had a pair of scissors in his hands and the scissors were opened wide. He ‘stabbed me in the arm’ with the scissors! It was in my left arm just above the elbow. I immediately stopped and looked at my arm and it started to bleed. I told him that now he was in BIG TROUBLE! I still wear that scar today. Looking back on that incident, I wonder what we were so angry about? Surely it was not worth stabbing a sibling with a pair of scissors. I do remember that my twin brother got in really big trouble for doing that. We were taught never to do that. I also remember that being the only girl and having three brothers wasn’t always easy. I realize now that it was just the opposite for them, have an only sister must have big a real big pain for them! I tattled a lot. It’s definitely not okay to be a tattletale all the time. It’s okay when there is something serious happening, but other than that, it’s not cool. In short, I’m sure I was a brat at times.

This reminds me of when Julie and Lisa, my two daughters were having a sibling fight one day. They were really going at it and pulling hair and hitting each other! Douglas ran out of the room and told me, “Mom! Julie and Lisa are fighting and they’re going to kill each other!” I remember just being so tired of telling the kids to stop fighting with each other and to be nice. I felt like a referee wearing a black and white stripped shirt with a whistle. I told him, “Oh let them go ahead and kill each other. I’ll have two less kids to worry about.” I said it with a very flat voice and with no emotion. I was tired! Tired of kids that couldn’t get along. Doug said, “Mom, you can’t let them do that, you have to make them stop!” Douglas was really worried about them. The next thing I knew Julie and Lisa was laughing and the fight ended.

Grandma’s advice to you grandchildren is, “We’re children of our Heavenly Father and He loves us so much. It makes Him sad when we fight. So don’t fight with your brothers and sisters. Just get along. It’s selfishness when you want your way and enforce others to do what you want. I'll love you grandchildren forever!!!”

Love ya!
Grandma Guptill
-in Washington :o)