Fighting with siblings??

Oh, it's normal, unfortunately. Your daughter's a teenager now and her brother is still a kid. This makes for friction as she tries to figure out where she fits into the world. Where once, it might have been okay for her to play with her younger brother, now there's probably pressure to be more cool, and to grow up and stop playing with little kids. And of course the 7 year old won't understand it, and will keep trying to play. Then again, little brothers are notorious for figuring out exactly how to press their older sisters' buttons. They seem to get a kick out of trying to make the sister crazy!

Welcome to siblings. My brothers did this all of their teenage years. It didn't stop till they moved out and on their own. They seemed to love irritating each other and of course putting my sister and I in the middle. I doubt there is much you can do but wait it out. It might get better as they get older. The most you can do is keep after them telling them not to pick on each other but again I don't think it will do much good. Just try to deal with each incident and correct them were possible.

LOL My kids are 2 1/2 years old and 15 months old and they have been fighting since day one. I hope it does get better.

My 11 yaer old daughter fights with my 4 year old daughter non stop! The things they fight over is just ridiculous, there are some days I want to just go running down the street screaming at the top of my lungs. My little sister, well I gues at 27 she is not so little, and I used to fight all the time as kids. My mom would make us sit on the couch next to each other and not speak. That was a pretty hard thing to do. Unfortunately darcy you're going to have to deal with this until your oldest moves out and goes to college. My sister and I didn't really start getting along until she was about 14 and I was almost 21. Keep alot of Tylenol handy for your headaches!

I think the best thing you can do is make sure you discipline your daughter so that she knows she can't do that and get away with it. It's not acceptable to pick on someone like that. Just saying stop it but not giving her any consequences for her actions probably won't do much. She may even like the attention she gets from you when you yell at her. Find out why she does it too. Does she feel bad about herself, is she bored, is her brother antagonizing her? I think another thing you need to do is make sure your son is ok and not traumatized from this! Don't make a big deal of it because if you do, he'll just get oversensitive. In the real world people yell and pick on you, but you can't cry and get all emotional, you have to develop a thick skin, you know? Teach him its ok to stand up for himself and to tell her to stop it, but in the end, what really matters is how he feels about himself, not what she thinks. Maybe do something with him to help build up his confidence, like help him start a sport or hobby. I'm not an expert, but I do know my older sister was awful to me, and my parents would just tell her to stop or tell us to work it out ourselves, and that didn't work. To this day I'm still kinda mad at her, even though she apologizes...

It is normal to have sibling fights, but if it's like non-stop fighting, they should be separated with each other, or talk to the both of the, explain that what they are doing can hurt each other, can hurt mom and dad, and it's so sad to see them fighting, shouting,and picking with each other... Or better yet, give them activities of their interests, letting them forget about fighting...

oh........ not to worry.... its very normal..i used to bully my second sister... and she used to bully our youngest.. and today we sit and laugh thinking of those nice times

I think the ralationship about your children is natual.i am four years older than my young brother.I have done as your daughter.But when we became older,i never did that.On opposition,my brother protects me!