The other day, Katie and Drew were arguing about when we were playing baseball in the pool. It bothered me, but I'm not their parents. I tried to get them to stop arguing, but they wouldn't, so I was just like "alright, game over" and that was that.
But today I was thinking, where do kids learn to argue? Is it ingrained in them since birth? Are we all predisposed to have disagreements with our family/friends/whoever? Are we meant to argue?
And maybe it was just my opinions talking, but a lot of what you learn is from your parents. So, do their parents argue a lot, or are they uninvolved? Is that why the kids argue? Is it excessive amounts of Disney channel or unmonitored games on their 12 year olds' xbox?
I don't know what it is, but I can safely say that I hope things aren't arguments all the time in my family. My future family, a family of my own when I'm older.
And then, dwelling on that a bit more, we mimic who we spend the most time with. People often imitate those the spend time with, even if they don't mean to. Little phrases here, or a habit there. So it's important that we choose friends wisely. You can't choose your family, obviously (ugh, cliches), but that doesn't mean that you can't decide what behaviors you imitate.
These were just some things I was thinking about today.
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