Does anyone have any advise on getthing children to get along?
By drummell
@drummell (66)
United States
June 30, 2007 9:49am CST
I have a 4 year old, Alyssa and 7 year old Kaylee...and they anything they can think of to irritate each other. For maybe 5 minutes a day they can get along. They are constantly hurting each other, yelling at each other, or just plain ole being annoying to each other. They just can't get along. I've tried several things to get them to play nice together and nothing so far, seems to work.
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@coferbox (298)
• United States
30 Jun 07
When they start this nonsense put them in different rooms to play and make them stay there - keep it up until they learn it is more fun to play with their sister than to play alone. You may have to do this for a few days and it may be hard, so be willing to stand your ground, if you give up and give in then you will have it even harder in the long run.
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@drummell (66)
• United States
30 Jun 07
I guess I'll have to be more stern on this and actually keep them in seperate rooms for longer. I've seperated them before and they just end up back in the same room. Its really hard when they're outside playing with their friends. It always seems like one of them is left out of the group. I'll have to put my foot down, harder, and keep them seperated for a longer period of time.
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@allenmamma (163)
• United States
30 Jun 07
hi coferbox I agree with you when they start arguing and fighting separate them until they learn that its not good to fight with each other. I tell my boys all the time your brothers and before you have any friends you should learn to get along with your brother and he should be one of your friends if not best friend because friends come and go but your brothers forever.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
30 Jun 07
I think I would try to keep track of what sort of things they fight over for a couple days before coming up with a way to address it. I'd look at what they're doing in those rare moments they're getting along too. if the older one feels the younger one is always tagging along and the little one feels left out; perhaps think of a project to do with the younger one while the older one has time away with her friends.
@allenmamma (163)
• United States
30 Jun 07
with young kids its really hard to get them to get a long . I have 5 boys and 1 girl. The three that are closer in age 15,13,11 oh my they argue and fight all the time and sometimes I have to make threats to get them to stop. But what I have noticed that my 11 year old always feels threaten because hes the youngest of those 3 and they tend to use their age over him. but then he can just be annoying I think they are like that until they hit 14 then they tend to mellow out and find theirs elves. With my youngest 3 1,3,5 my daughter is the 1 year old and they let her get away with murder my 3 year old is just mean and always wants his way period. I have to deal with them each on individual levels because they always want some kind of attention. Now in your case your 4 year old probably wants to play with her sister all the time and the 7 year old just wants time to herself and don't really want to be bothered with her younger sister.They will grow closer when they get older you probably
