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If you grew up with a brother or sister, then you surely have your fair share of stories about battling with them. My husband, the youngest in a house full of boys, spent approximately a year of his childhood hanging by his belt loop from a hook on the closet door. In my house the stories go back for generations. A family favorite features my mild-mannered Aunt Judy chasing her then-twelve-year-old younger sister (equally sweet and gentle Aunt Nancy around the house with a knife. No one seems to remember the offense that sparked this passionate fit of rage between sisters, but you can be sure it had something to do with, well, being sisters.
Sibling rivalry is as old as the hills, and from the parents of Cain and Abel, right on up to Dr. Phil, we’ve been trying to figure out just what makes this relationship so fraught with conflict. My own experience tells me it’s a juicy compote of personality type, competition for resources (namely the Light of the Parental Gaze, and differing developmental clocks. But whatever the causes, what experts seem to agree on is that the only sensible parental response to inter-sibling bickering is no response at all. (Unless, of course, one of them is chasing the other around the house with a knife. read more
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