morning, I'm just after some advice - or even just some sympathy! - on how to persuade, encourage, teach, (BEG!) my sons, 5.5yo and almost 8yo, to play together and get along better.
Unless they are outdoors (in which case they're great), or indoors watching TV together, or wrestling (which ALWAYS ends in tears eventually) they cannot play well together for more than 20 seconds, or sometimes even be in vicinity of each other, without teasing, bickering, winding each other up and inevitably fighting. It's just constant.
Lockdown isn't helping, but even so - they rarely play together, or even separately, on their own or quietly. My niece and nephew who are 6yo and 8yo play together for hours and hours while my brother and SiL sit around reading the papers or gardening...
Where have we gone wrong???