When dds are together they play loud, energetic, rough, hyper

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Dds are 3 &6 and separately they play with toys, jigsaws, draw, Lego and don't break things or be rough.
When they are together at the weekend they don't play with toys really, they just wrestle, jump about, run and crash into each other laughing hysterically and shouting but always ending in tears, hurting each other and breaking things and very loud.
They don't seem to be able to play calm together.
Is this just what siblings are like?

Yep!

Well, that's what mine are like!

Mine (DS aged 5 and DD aged 3) are exactly like this. They seem to treat each other as one huge mobile soft play area.

Yet are perfectly capable of calm play on their own.

Sometimes they do also go off on imaginary adventures together, or sit reading stories, which is lovely - but mostly it's the crazy laughing/chasing/climbing on each other/rolling about/jumping/shouting/singing. And when others come round to play they encourage them to be like that too.

Oh , so I've got to put up with this madness forever, (faints)
They do have epic my little pony games and imaginary games sometimes and dd1 will read to dd2 in the morning. But after school and weekend it's just mayhem

I have to look away TBH. Catastrophic injury always seems only moments away to me...but they seem to bounce, the little buggers.

This weekend has been bad really, bouncing on furniture and pulling on curtains and breaking a toy all through roughness and I've told them off too much but hey don't stop till someone is hurt or something is broken.

I've always been able to take them anywhere but lately when I have took both of them out they have continued the silly chasing and hyper behaviour in public and couldn't behave.

Mine are 6 4 and 3, and when all together end up going bonkers through the house. I quite like it, but I will tell them off if they damage the house/each other. My problem is the mess they make, and have to constantly stop their fun and make encourage them to tidy up.

Mine are still like that and they are 18 and 12!

I have a ds who is 11 and a half and a dd who is 9 and a half. Until 3 years ago they were able to play together very well, especially imaginative games.
But in the last 3 years, they ignore each other most of the time, or play roughly and it always ends up with ds hurting dd.

This serves me right for having been smug in the past at how well they played together.

I could have written this post ATM!

Thank you OP and everyone else for reassuring me this is normal sibling behaviour. I was seriously starting to question my sanity our parenting style.

Sounds normal to me. I have 3 dds and the older two are 13 and 12 now and do judo, so they can jump on each other with an increasing level of skill.

My 3 dds do play calmly together too, they'll all sit and do craft nicely, like 3 model Victorian girls, but it's interspersed with wilder play.

We'll thanks for letting me know it's normal now how do I cope? (Grin)

Mine are like this (except toddler ds2 who is always a whirlwind).

Dd2 will play dress up, watch tv, build castles etc. when she gets home from nursery. When dd1 and ds1 get home it's like a herd of rhinos have moved in. Then the squabbles start over books/doll/gun/outfit, dancing round, play fighting are just the start.

Left to it, dd1 and ds1 will read/draw/play games quietly for ages so long as they're in different rooms. Get two or more dcs in the same room and its chaos.

Yup - pretty normal. That's precisely why I used to take mine out every day when they were little - to use up some of that energy. If you go to woods and hills and country parks and outdoor spaces, you don't have to worry so much about if they are behaving to someone else's code or not.

My two youngest are 3.1 and 21 months. The three year old has just started rising threes and I am amazed at how different the 21 month old is on his own. He talks more, is more cuddly and actually plays with toys.

Sounds just like my 6yr old DD and 13yr old DD at home! When my 21yr old DS visits all hell breaks loose between the three of them! The 21yr old picks the 6yr old up and swings her around, the 13yr old wants to rugby tackle the 21yr old to the floor, they all pile in to each other and I just enjoy the sweet sound of siblings having fun together! Usually ends up in arguing but that's love, eh?

I need to learn to relax a little and enjoy them playing as they like no as I would choose. We do go outside a lot but it's times when I'm trying to get dinner on they get wilder and wilder and I hear ridiculous suggestions like lets see if we can jump from sofa to sofa with our eyes shut, aaaagh