Jane's violent outburst of Sunday evening was followed a mere one day later by her sisters' equally strange (and hostile) approach to conflict resolution:
Claire, Margot, and their friends were at the playground yesterday, and there was an unprecedented amount of disagreement with a group of allegedly "mean girls" (most of whom we have known since birth, and all of whom are actually perfectly nice.) All of these little girls kept running to the mothers and reporting various offenses (generally described as varying degrees of "meanness") by the other crew of girls. Finally, Claire came over, flailing her arms in total exasperation, and said, "Mom, these girls are being really mean to us! They won't be nice, and we've tried everything: poking them with sticks, throwing rocks, yelling at them . . . nothing is working!"
Note to self: train children to be less violent.
