Soccer Saturdays and the power of the "get along t shirt"

I have attempted to keep my kids busy.  Why?  Idle minds plus boredom equals crazy children who get into all kinds of trouble.

Cameron and Keira are the 2 who are closest in age.  The are like best friends and their own worst enemies.  Cameron played soccer last season and this was Keiras first season.  Cameron is the soccer star and Keira is searching for fairies and butterflies.  So Soccer consumes a lot of my time.  Monday and Wednesday nights Cameron has practice. Keira has practice Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Games are on Saturdays sometimes in different areas all together.  Today dad was involved and took Cam to his game.  I went the other direction with Keira.  Keiras team won their first game today!!   Mind you its the end of the season. It was a very joyous occasion.  Camerons team won as well.  We now have the rest of our afternoon to ourselves.  I am off to buy a new pair of sneaks!!  Very exciting!!

I do have to talk about something that happened a few days ago.  It involves Cameron and Keira.  Like I said they are the best of friends or they cats and dogs fighting like the cartoons from the old days in a ball of fur and dust rolling around on the floor.  I have struggled with trying to find a way for it to stop.  Time outs, go to your room and restrictions.  Nothing worked.  So I have seen this post on Pinterest, 2 kids in 1 shirt till they can get along.  My husband comes home the other night right in the middle of one of those cats and dogs moments.  He grabs each one by the hand and a light bulb goes off.  I go and get a t shirt.  Kids screaming and crying, husband asking me what I am thinking.  I start to put the t shirt over the kids heads.  They are flipping out mad now and not at each other, they are mad at me.  I calmly tell them If you work with one another this will not hurt.  Even though they are crying and carrying on I am telling them about how you are suppose to love one another you are brother and sister, you have the same blood pumping through your veins.  Now Cameron is the known button pusher and Keira is a young girl who is starting to be a little moody once and awhile.  So Cameron can get just about anyone going which is the cause of most of their disagreements.  As they start to listen to what Dad and I are talking about.  We tell them they will sit here together in this shirt for 2 minutes or until the can get along.  So at this point they are sweating, tears and slobber on their faces.  They are quiet and sitting back to back.  We set the timer and their is silence.  We watch them from the next room over and you can see it them working together and apologizing to each other.  When the timer goes off we take the t shirt off and they hug and apologize to each other again.  I wish I would of done this year ago.  For 2 days they have been nothing but kind to one another.  I keep the shirt hanging up in the bathroom as a reminder.  I love my kids and I love it even more when they get along. 

This may not work with everyone, but it sure has worked here.

Have a happy weekend and I will be posting some product reviews as I am venturing in to the advantages of probiotics.  I have found a few things that are working wonders and some that do absolutely nothing!!

Be well!!