Tag: cause and effect

My son is the older and usually quiet. My daughter is the younger and usually exuberant and loud. Appearances, however, can be frequently misleading. In the ten years or more that I have been a parent, I have learned not to go for the obvious. I have noticed that whenever my daughter screams the loudest, her brother invariably is somewhere near. He is either teasing, provoking, egging her on, or simply quietly saying contrary things just to get a reaction. As a sane mom of two, therefore, I have long ago set up a policy to treat them as a