Sibling arguments...FFS I can't stand anymore!

[shadypines]

Ding ding round 1, in the blue corner is DC 15yrs and in the red corner premenstrual DD 12yrs.

Scenario - DD sat at desk in DS bedroom playing game on PC, small alarm clock on desk and time display on PC. DS lay on his bed revising for GCSE exam in same room. DS asks DD the time, DD seems unable to oblige and WW3 erupts (again). FFS

If they get to the age of 18 and I can kick them out and I maintain my sanity it will be nothing short of a miracle.

Give me wine, lots of it, and a dark room...soundproofed

I feel for you Shady; I'm just about to open the red wine. Fighting & bickering constantly with chopsticks poked in eyes, scratches, nips, pinches. In fact, can't think of physical torture they haven't yet inflicted.
Some say Age 20 brings change... Let's hope.

Pour me a large glass Brookville please

No help, sorry, but just want to say I feel your pain. My two are horrendous for bickering and fighting with each other.

Oh God, pass some over here!

My two are in the middle of A' levels (ds) and GCSEs (dd). They've never been bosom buddies since dd learned to talk and began to resent being bossed around by ds, but the last few weeks have been just hideous. I have to keep them apart in different rooms in case they kill each other. And even when I think they've called a truce and are mucking around together, it quickly degenerates into WW3. They seem to be going out of their way to deliberately piss the other off.

Whoever said a two-year age gap was a good idea? Someone whose kids hadn't reached public exam age, I presume.

Oh God I have the same but with 3. All seems to stem from 14 yo DS1 who delights in pissing people off. DD is a hormonal 12 yo and poor DS2 who is a cute 10 yo keeps getting caught up in the middle of it (and tbf fights a good fight!). They have been driving me stir crazy this evening-especially since DS1 now thinks he is old enough to argue with me! Argggghhhhhhh! Sometimes wish I could just wake up in 8 yrs time and find they have all moved out!!

It's very upsetting when they seem to delight in cheesing each other off.

I was wondering if such provocation was actually normal until I came across this thread.

I have ds1 (9) calling the others idiot, plankton, moron. God. His younger siblings go bonkers in protest at his verbal attacks.

DD (7) deliberately kicking and prodding ds2 (4) until he screams in frustration.

DS3 (20 months) bellows like mad if he feels any injustice on anybody's part.

Roll on the summer holidays.

In case anyone revisits... I'm still on the red wine...But have also purchased Sibling Rivalry by the folk who wrote How to Talk so your Kids will Listen etc. If there's anything groundbreaking we haven't all tried I'll post it here. Now for some Breaking Bad as.. er... detox.

God help me, mine are only 6 and 2. I'll be in bits before they leave home.