Word: bickers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...were young rivals may be most likely to develop hostile or apathetic adult relationships. As I was discussing this finding on the phone with him recently, I could hear two of my daughters in the background arguing heatedly over whose turn it was to feed the dog. "If kids bicker, are they rivals?" I asked. "Are you asking this because of your siblings or your daughters?" Stewart responded. "They're that loud?" I asked. We both knew the answer. And if it's in my power to prevent another generation of painful memories of a scratched fender, I will...
...would like to report that my family travels well--that my three daughters do not bicker or pull hair or invent songs in which a sibling's name rhymes with smell-ah. And that our station wagon never veers from lane to lane as my husband peers over his shoulder to see whether the girls are cannibalizing one another in the back seat. But I would be lying. As summer approaches, I wonder whether we will survive another vacation...