One of THOSE mornings...

This morning has been one of THOSE mornings with the kids. A morning that has been filled with crying, hitting, not sharing and big tantrums. Normal punishment was not working. It got so bad this morning and I was so tired of the yelling and me having to tell the kids to share and be nice, that I did something that I never thought I would do.

I separated both kids, cleaned up the toys that were out, and I put ALL the toys in TIME-OUT. I have put a toy in time-out before, but never ALL the toys. I told the kids that if there were not going to play nicely with each other and share their toys, then they weren't going to play with their toys for the rest of the morning.

After a few minutes of crying, it finally worked. Silence.

No more yelling. No more crying. No more hitting. No more tantrums. They were forced to play nice together, because they had nothing else to play with.

It was amazing.
They were back to being best friends.
Back to being loving to one another.
Back to being the kids that I am used to.
Back to this.