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Helpful advice please - DS 1 is sick of DS2.....and they're constantly squabbling

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Legacy · 27/11/2006 22:43

I know it sounds pretty much 'par for the course' in family life, but it is just really getting to me.

DS1 is on Yr2 (age 7) and DS2 just started school (4.2).

They used to get on well at home, but I think the school thing has tipped the balance. DS2 is pretty young and immature, and is constantly 'bugging' DS1 at playtime - pulling his coat, hanging onto him, shouting silly things at him.
Unfortunately he absolutely adores his big brother and doesn't seem to realise how unpopular it's making him!
Then at home, as soon as they're left together for any length of time they are wrestling on the sofa within minutes.

It's driving me (and DS1 I suspect) mad! It's not as if they can't go and do stuff on their own - they both have their own bedrooms, and a playroom.

We've talked to DS2 about the whole thing, to try to make him understand that he needs to give his brother some space, but he either just doesn't understand, or ignores us.

It's not possible to always do separate things with them after school, but nor can I be sitting 'over them' to make sure they behave.

Help.

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Legacy · 28/11/2006 13:55

Annie - yes, I agree, up to a point, which is why I wrote it was 'par for the course' in the first line...

But surely not ALL THE TIME?

My two just do not seem to do anything 'constructive' together - just rolling around/ racing around/ scrapping, ALL THE TIME.

I hear of other people's kids who play imaginary games together, do puppet shows, draw together, play board games etc etc but the only way my two do this is if I'm there doing it with them to keep DS2 from climbing all over DS1.
I cannot be with them all the time they are at home.

I just wonder what other people's school age kids do together at home after school?

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Legacy · 28/11/2006 14:31

Hi Anniemac
Sorry - didn't mean to sound ungrateful, it's just, as you say, it sounded a little different.

You might be right though, in terms of a phase - DS1 is taking being in Year2 very seriously (it's only an infant school, so Year 2 is oldest) so perhaps having kid brother around is cramping his 'cool style' (not that he's got any! )

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