M1's Documentary

I'm loving M1 for more than just the sweet cookie sharing lately, she's producing a video documentary about sibling rivalry.

She's been filming her little sisters arguing in an effort to edit them together and show them how terrible it is. She zooms in on the sad, victimized faces. She replays the screeches "that's MINE" over and over again. It's almost like a reality TV show. She is even putting a narrative text over the screen images. She sets up a camera and brings the sad child up on her lap to ask them "how do you feel when she's mean to you?" Then she edits her own voice out of the picture, so all you see on screen is a 2 yr old saying "She mekkin me Saaad"

However...

Whenever any one of the fore mentioned little sisters comes near her on the computer, she howls at them "GET AWAY" or "LEAVE ME ALONE" or "STOP PEEKING." and they run away in tears because she was mean.

If you think that's funny, She puts the camera in a hidden place and if they don't fight soon enough she goes in there and says things like "Oh ----, did you know ----- has your Barbie skirt" then she backs out of "the scene" while they fight about it.

I am sure that REAL Reality Show Directors do that, too. But seriously, these are my kids. Why doesn't any parenting book cover this?

Q- What do you do when your kids are filming a psychological documentary about fighting and using each other as guinea pigs?

A- You keep track of the time they spend on the computer and add it to your Home School tracker software as "Art" and "Computer Sciences" so they can get school credit for it.



I know little girls can be dramatic, but Honestly. No one ever told me they were capable of harnessing the drama within others and turning it into a multimedia event.

What would you do? Come on, I know people read this. HELP me out here. I think I got her to stop instigating fights, on the grounds that it is unethical. She said it was to preserve the battery power.