Blackmail

Tara and I were working on her homework and it wasn't going so well. She is very hard on herself and was getting very frustrated. She finally said that she wanted to go back to Kindergarten. She started crying over all of it. She wants to be the best and can't handle it when she has to struggle. I told her to go and take a break and we will work on it again later. So then she goes upstairs.

Well, when Tara is mad, she thinks everyone should join her in being mad. She then immediately seeks out Triston to see what she can do to him to ruin his day. She catches him watching "Family Guy" which is a cartoon not meant for kids. I do not allow my kids to watch the show, I wish I could have it taken off the air but I am only one person. Instead, I lay the rules out at home and tell them that they are not allowed to watch it. I don't have a TV block or anything but maybe I should check into that. So anyways...Tara catches him and starts laying out her own demands on Triston and if he doesn't do what she wants, she tells him that she is going to tell me what he is doing.

Soon after, Triston comes running to me crying like crazy. He is trying to tell me the whole story but I can barely understand because he is so frantic and crying. What he does say is that he keeps sneaking to watch Family Guy and Tara keeps telling him what to do or else she will tell and he keeps saying, over and over, that he is sick of it and can't take it anymore. First I want to yell at him for watching the stupid show but I feel bad that he feels so bad. And then there is Tara, she is always up to no good. I asked him if he was watching it and he replies, "I was, its off now." I explain to him that he is not allowed to watch it and he replies, "I know...but." Well then Triston, don't watch it, don't do stuff you are not supposed to and then your sister wouldn't be able to do that to you.

Of course, we had to talk with both of them about what they are doing wrong. And later, as I think about this, I am shocked over both of them. Triston was hysterical and who knows what all Tara has made him do or agree to just to keep himself out of trouble and the fact that he admitted to watching it more than once, why not stop after the first blackmail? Then there is Tara, why does she thrive on kayos?