Conflict on the home front! Resolution in the heart!

Kole and Jaydn were having a conflict this morning and I decided to use my "physical" consequence trick! Jaydn was bossing Kole around and calling him"Slave" then he hit him on the back. Kole then yelled "Slave butt!" at him. I had not been around to hear or see this so when Jaydn came to me to "tattle" as is Jaydn's style...I called Kole up to hear his story(*which, by the way is not the one I just spelled out here). I had Kole do 3 sets of 10 push ups, 10 sit ups and 10 jumping jacks...then hold up the wall for 30 seconds and sent him off to write 10 lines"I will not call my brother bad names.". I then called Jaydn up because his story did not match Kole's story. Jaydn got the same physical consequence for hitting his brother. I then called the 2 in and told them they needed to get their story straight and could NOT leave my room until they came up with an agreement on what exactly happened, they would NOT get to watch Iron Man tonight if this did not get accomplished! It took them all of about 15 minutes of arguing and play acting out what happened before they came to me with an agreed story...which, by the way, was not the story that either of them had given me. Funny how boys make up their own versions of what happened and they think they can get the other in trouble and then " Bang!" The whole plan backfires on them. I lovingly hugged each one and thanked them for their honesty...FINALLY...and sent them downstairs to eat breakfast. This whole process took about 35 minutes and let me tell you sometimes when I think it is too much trouble to deal with things like this and just ignore them I am tempted to do just that...ignore it but this morning I am grateful that I was prompted to follow through with these boys. I see that calling them on their bad behavior is very important and I am reminded that this is a huge part of my job as their mother. I am grateful that we can have these lessons in life to teach us how to endure to the end. The result is fabulous! So hang in there frustrated moms there is always a solution waiting for you and if you listen to the still small voice telling you what you should do and actually follow it you will be surprised at how easily conflict is resolved without anger.