Is there a way to stop or at least reduce my 11year old son and 6 year old daughter fighting so much...I realize they have a fairly large age difference and that most is just plain old sibling rivalry but there has got to be something that won't require me to separate them their whole life.
2006-12-30 12:19:35 · 14 answers · asked by macsmom33 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
buy a game that you have to work together that they BOTH like and have them work together at that game and find topics, books, toys, games, ect that they BOTH like and invite your sons friends over and your daughters friends over and have them well i guess play and get to know each other? i hope this works but i'm not really sure. hope it goes well lol.
2006-12-30 12:29:11 · answer #1 · answered by I WANT AN IPHONE! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope no way to stop or "reduce" it. My sister and I were 7 years apart and battled...my cousins were two years a part and battled...it's "normal". My aunt would just point to the back door and tell her kids not to tattle or come in unless bones were broken and proturding through the skin or an arterey had been severed...She also made sure they knew where the bandaids were as well as ice packs. While my sister and I no longer speak (not because of the childhood fights but other things ) both of my cousins are extremely close as adults. So close they even married siblings.
2006-12-30 18:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My kids are the same age and all day they fight, I just try to take away whatever they are fighting over, like turn the tv off or take the games away, or sometimes I just have to make them go to their rooms for awhile and other times theres not much you can do just think to yourself they will grow out of it soon
2006-12-31 01:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by paula_5150 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hon, nothing but TIME will take care of it!
He will soon be with friends most of the time....she will have crushes on the friends & act nice....it is the way of siblings!!
I had 3 boys in 4 years--imagine THOSE fights!!!!
If I had a dollar for everything they broke...(sigh)...
2006-12-30 12:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my sister and i are four years apart. im 12 shes 16. my mom switched around guys so much but then she finally got stable and we really liked [well i really liked] how parenting he can be. theyll grow out of it like i did when we were the ages of 10 and 15. [i think once the older sibling has gotten mature and gone through puberty they arent so immature]
2006-12-30 17:39:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh that sitting in chairs thing was awful my dad used to make me do that with my cousin who lived with us and it was awful some how he always got the one facing away from my dad so he would make snide remarks and rude gestures and since i was younger iwould cry or pout then my dad would get mad at me please dont do that to them. i would say just let time take care of it and if there fighting is causing you problems in public dont take them anywhere say sorry iwanted to go to the park or pool etc but you to cant get along so we are all just going to stay home they will soon learn they have to get along to get what they want. or stay home all the time i guess.
2006-12-30 16:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by heather d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Dad got my brother and I boxing gloves. At first it was to teach self-defense. Then as we got older, anytime my brother and I started bickering, my father took it as excess energy and made us get out the gloves and box it out. It didn't take long for us to learn not to fight in front of our Dad.
2006-12-30 12:28:43 · answer #7 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made my son and daughter sit with me and talk about whats going on....and you can make them say I'm sorry hug each other and say I love you...they hated that. so they didn't fight as much.
2006-12-30 12:31:54 · answer #8 · answered by chocolate smoke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandmother told me that, when she was a girl, she and her brothers fought like pit bulls. If great-grandma caught them scrapping, she made them sit in chairs facing each other until they got over their mad at each other.
2006-12-30 12:30:14 · answer #9 · answered by Killertiel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me and my brother are 7 years appart and we fought ALL the time when we were younger everyone thought we would end up hating eachother but we get along well. they will grow out of it
2006-12-30 17:11:52 · answer #10 · answered by the quiet one 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋