When you have a boy and a girl to raise, ensure that when the time comes to have cherry bookcase for their many books that you will be buying and accumulating during the years that they are growing up, you have a separate bookcase for each of them. That way, you can minimize the spats and quarrels of the kids with one another.
It will also be a practical move, so you may not experience the great trouble you had with the kids when they could not agree on the storage of their toys before when they were smaller. Remember, last time you had to rush to the furniture store to buy a second toy box for your girl when she could not stop crying because her brother will not allow her the use of the only toy box you had then. The same thing can happen with the childrens bookcases if you do not prepare two units ahead of time.
Having two separate bookcases for the boy and the girl will also make it easier for you to look for any particular book later, any time the boy or the girl may ask. It should be much easier and much faster for you to react to the request if the books are sorted out in different bookcases.
The little quarrels are normal, as long as kids are kids. You remember having your own spats with your kid brother then not so long ago. At that time of your boyhood, it seemed that your biggest enemy was your little brother. He seemed to be too unreasonable then in his demands for almost anything.
Now that you are both grown up as adults with your own children too, you and your kid brother are the best of friends. You both laugh when the ruckus of the quarrels of your kids sometimes interrupt your coffee session with your kid brother, visiting you for the weekend with his family. He lives now in Las Vegas while you have decided to stay put in your parents house in San Francisco.
You regularly exchange weekend visits with your brother and his family, but more with you going over to his place in Las Vegas because you are one casino addict adding to the coffers of the casinos there.
Of course, that is only one of the reasons you visit your brother often; the more compelling reason maybe the closeness you have with your brother now after your endless spats before because of your books and kids bookshelves being mixed up, as little boys are wont to do. It took your Mom then a lot of refereeing in your fistfights as if both of you were world-class boxers then.
Your Mom, now out there somewhere after she died not long ago, must be smiling now that you have found peace with your kid brother. She can perhaps believe you now that you are in Las Vegas not for the casinos, but because you want to assure your brother that in spite of the fights over the books and the bookcase for kids you had when you were little boys, he is your best friend, more than just being a brother.
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