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If your children fight a lot, keep this in mind ...
While it’s no surprise to see siblings bickering, it’s still a wearisome strain on parents’ nerves. When it reaches a certain degree of intensity and, above all, regularity, it may be a sign that it has become an ingrained habit, a certain mode of functioning from which there will soon be no way out. But don’t be discouraged; solutions for breaking this vicious cycle do exist.
A diagnosis to reflect on everyday conflicts
There are certainly many reasons for these squabbles, and we shouldn’t necessarily overdramatize them. Also, it’s good to let the children manage things and find ways out of the crisis. However, it is also true that a “laissez faire” attitude is not the same as indifference. With an attentive eye you can seize the right opportunity to intervene, the right moment to make children reflect on these everyday conflicts, this little war of attrition which, seemingly insignificant, can, in the long run, weaken relationships and deeply wound hearts.
Continued below.
How to break the vicious cycle of quarrels between your children
While it’s no surprise to see siblings bickering, it’s still a wearisome strain on parents’ nerves. When it reaches a certain degree of intensity and, above all, regularity, it may be a sign that it has become an ingrained habit, a certain mode of functioning from which there will soon be no way out. But don’t be discouraged; solutions for breaking this vicious cycle do exist.
A diagnosis to reflect on everyday conflicts
There are certainly many reasons for these squabbles, and we shouldn’t necessarily overdramatize them. Also, it’s good to let the children manage things and find ways out of the crisis. However, it is also true that a “laissez faire” attitude is not the same as indifference. With an attentive eye you can seize the right opportunity to intervene, the right moment to make children reflect on these everyday conflicts, this little war of attrition which, seemingly insignificant, can, in the long run, weaken relationships and deeply wound hearts.
Continued below.
How to break the vicious cycle of quarrels between your children
