My poor kids have learned the hard way to listen to me.
My husband and I both have told our children several times not to rough house in the living room area, but every once in awhile they do.
Usually, I just remind them of the rules, and they find somewhere else to play, but this time I was in the kitchen cooking dinner while all three of my kids were in the living room wrestling over something. I did not realize what they were doing until about ten minutes later when I heard a loud crash. Supposedly, my youngest son had pushed my oldest son very hard and caused him to fall backwards into our air conditioner. The air conditioner then fell out the window. There is a porch right under where the air conditioner was, so it did not fall very far, but it did break the air conditioner. I was very upset with them, but I knew that they would learn their lesson when we did not have air conditioning for awhile. It gets to be about eighty degrees in our house during the day now, and my kids are used to having it around sixty-five degrees, so they are miserable. They have definitely learned their lesson, and they are working hard to earn some money to help replace the air conditioner that they broke. They had individually come to me and told me that they are so sorry for wrestling in the living room even when they knew that they should not have been. I love them so much, and I know that we will be getting another air conditioner soon.