How do you get kids to stop screaming and arguing with each other?

Question

I have a 5 year old and a 18 month old that are constantly screaming,running and or arguing with each other i've tried everything..please help

Answer 1

This is a fun onw, not. I used to baby-sit a couple kids around the same age. The only way for anything to work though is if you stick to it and don't give them empty threats. Tell them to stop whatever it is their doing once and make it clear that the next time there will be consequences. For example, if they're fighting over a certain toy take it away and tell them they can have it back in a day or a week, whatever you feel would work best. If they're just arguing for the sake of arguing, seperate them, if they're running sit them in time out, use a timer and tell them in -- amount of minutes the buzzer will go off and thats when they can get up. But if they try to get up before that keep resetting the timer, they'll quit when they realize it gets them no where. Be consistent and they'll learn but it may take some time. Good Luck

Answer 2

This what I do I have a 4 and 10 year and when they feud I have them stand in opposite corners.I have them stand or squat in corner as how they are, so my 4 year old gets 4 min and my 10 year get 10 min. And tell them if you can't work it out together then you have deal the consquences. So have the 5 year stand in corner for 5 min and have you 18 month stand in the corner for 1 min. I tell them also work together and not against each other.

Answer 3

Trust me, much better than when they work together against you. I care for a 2yo &4yo brothers. They are angels from me and their parents, but to their aunt (who lives with) they will take turns being a distraction and causing trouble.

I also do remember when my 2 brothers and I decided torturing each other was much more fun if we never let our parents know we were doing it. We were flung down stairs, knocked off furniture, a hand was slammed in a door at least once, and to many other things to list. Most of it, now 10 years later, our parents still don't know we did to one another. We laugh about it and about all the ways we would cover for each other, just so we would have the opportunity to exact revenge. My mother always said, if you're gonna draw blood do it outside, and if you break his arm, you have to carry him to the hospital yourselves.

Answer 4

Its sibling rivalry and natural... The bible says a brother was born for adversity. I always taught my older ones to be nice to the little ones and if they had a problem come talk to me... you cant break up every arguement either.
When my 5 and 4 yr old would argue and yell .. I would make them stand face to face... bear hug each other and they couldnt stop hugging until they said " I 'm your sister, your my brother let us love one another." They would end up laughing when saying it and it would break the tension and off they would go til the next time.

Answer 5

You wait until they're adults!

Seriously, start taking things away from them every time they fight. A toy, a favorite TV show, a trip to the store, a favorite snack, etc. You have to teach them that there are consequences for their actions and that fighting isn't acceptable.

Answer 6

Smack the loudest up side the head and tell them that is what they will get every time they start yelling. It didn't hurt me or my growth as a human being when I was growing up, nor did it hurt my friends. We all turned into pretty decent, thinking, hard working adults. Unlike the festering boils on humanity that have risen their diseased heads in today's world. In my opinion.

Answer 7

Send them to their own rooms everytime they start!

Answer 8

split them up in there rooms, then make them apoligize. or the corner shuts mine up = ).

Answer 9

keep them seperated and don't let them play together or anything for a while

Answer 10

no one knows that answer its part of there nature