2 and 4 year old fighting a lot !

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They're 2 and a half and 5 in January.

Boy and girl.

It's just a lot of fighting over toys and things on the days we are at home. It's exhausting.

They shout a lot. The little one particularly winds the older one up. I bought them a couple of toys earlier from the supermarket but little one just doesn't understand that he has his own toy and sister has her toy. He'll snatch it and run off and she'll go running after him screaming.

It's constant and I can't be on every single situation because I have stuff to do !

I tend to return items to ( usually ) my older child. I then do a time out with the little one if it was him who took the toy ( it usually is him ). It's just constant though and I can't nip every situation / be on top of every situation. It's relentless !

My two year old just winds his sister up constantly- he also pretends to be a monster and chases her around, which also makes her shout. Then yesterday my husband stupidly said ' well you can also pretend to be a monster ' so she started doing it to him now.

It's just a bit of a mad house and gets very loud. How long does this last ??

Does your little one know how to ask for a toy? We practice a lot. He wants to grab, we get him to say "turn please" and then help him wait until his sister is finished. Normally she'll give it quite quickly, if not we say that she knows it's his turn next and if she keeps it ages I then intervene and say one more minute and swap. It does get better. Just takes a fuck load of practice.

Don’t worry, it’ll only last the next 12 or so years

Little one is too young to really understand sharing or what’s naughty or not just yet (but that will come seeing as you are teaching him) the oldest is still a bit too young to understand that the youngest is too young 😂
Youll get there OP!
I only have the one but when he was 6, he came to me in a soft play and complained that another little boy had pushed him. He pointed him out and he was only a toddler. I explained to DS that he was a bit too young to understand it was naughty and that he was smaller than him and not to worry about it

Keep doing what you’re doing with teaching the youngest but try and reason with the oldest that her little brother is still very young and doesn’t understand as much as she does just yet and that as she is a big girl, she can maybe try and be a little bit patient with him