Why Sibling's Fight

Sisters and Brothers fight even before the second child is born and their causes are not limited to toys and attention. Kids grow at different rates and their growth development are at different stages. Kids fighting in a household affects not only the children, but also the parents. Reasoning for kids fighting, according to KidsHealth, includes “evolving needs, individual temperaments, and special needs/sick kids” (p.1). Older siblings require their personal space while younger siblings want to play and be around them. They both require equal attention of the parents and feels their sibling get more attention than they do and when a third child or more is added to the equation, the problems increase.

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However, treat them fairly when it comes to consequences. As a fight involves more than one, every child is responsible for their action in the fight and should have consequences for their actions.

Based on the article, “Why Siblings Fight,” parents feel angry, furious, helpless, powerless, and overwhelmed just to name a few. “They worry that one or both of their children will get physically hurt, emotionally hurt, become bullies, lack empathy, have poor relationship skills as adults, and more.” Parents tend to expect what is not the reality when they have more than one child; They tend to handle situations amongst their children the way their parents handle them as a child.

Children bicker and tease each other and will go as far as stealing things from one another, breaking things, and evening challenging a belief. However, the benefits of fighting with your sibling, according to the Center of Parenting Education, include “learning to deal with power struggles, manage conflict, resolve differences, be assertive, and negotiate and