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Ending Sibling Fights

A Step-by-step Approach

By Elizabeth Pantley

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Do your kids bicker and fight over everything? Are your nerves wearing thin? Read these step-by-step approaches to help you restore order to your family, so that you can enjoy being together

Situation

My kids' fighting drives me crazy! It's usually over some extremely important issue, like who gets to use the red Lego piece. (Never mind that there are 15 more just like it in the box!) I get so tired of the yelling, screaming and threatening – not to mention what goes on between the kids! Please, I beg you, give me some ideas to put an end to this bickering.

Step 1: Think About It
Most of us brought our second baby home from the hospital along with visions of our children becoming life-long friends. (Some of us even had a second child specifically so that our first would have a playmate!) When our children fight, it not only grates on our nerves, it tugs on our hearts. The most important advice I can give you is this: Calm down and relax. Keep a level head and view your kids' arguments in a realistic way. The fight over the red Lego, as intense as it may seem, will be over and forgotten by the time one of them realizes he needs a blue one. Kids fight for lots of reasons. They fight because they don't want to share, because they want parental attention, because they each have a differing view about what's fair or simply because they have to share the same space, day after day after day. The vast majority of sibling battles are not destructive to the relationship between the children. All this considered, there are ways to survive sibling fighting. And there are ways to reduce the number of fights, and the severity of them, as well.

Step 2: Take Away the Audience

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