Is it normal for siblings to fight all the time? It’s absolutely constant. How do I stop this? They’ve started hitting each other (not hard) but it’s awful. We had a day out at the weekend and they were constantly whacking each other with their coats and pushing each other. Nothing I did or said made any difference.
Lately they’ve started parenting each other so for example they’ll scream ‘don’t run in the car park!’ at the top of their lungs or ‘we’re going out your coat on’. It’s worse than it sounds, everything is shouted or screamed in an aggressive tone. This isn’t usually how we speak to them (unless we’ve already told them 100 times to stop hitting each other etc).
Meanwhile DS3 is very polite, placid, calm. Sits at the table nicely eating breakfast, says please and thank you. The complete opposite of the other two who are 9 and 7 years old. Is just an age thing??
What do I do?????
I’ve threatened to stop their activities eg football but it makes no difference (and frankly it’s more of a pain for me because we then have to spend more time listening to the fighting at home). I’ve talked to them about it. Asked them to stop (and when they’ve calmed down talked to them again), also tried to separate them but it’s not always possible.
Is this normal?? It’s generally the 9 year old trying to wind everyone up. He doesn’t listen and will keep doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over.
Help! I’m at my wits end