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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 10 and 12 year old boys.  DW always laments that they aren't best friends like she was with her sister.  I have a different barometer on this based on past experience.  My older brother and I fought viciously.  Somehow, my parents managed to stay out of it for the most part.  Eventually, we started to get along when he hit high school age and I was in middle school.  We became best friends once he went to college and still are 25 years later.  How your kids are now is not a reflection of how they will be with each other in the future.  Keep saying that to yourself.[/quote]

I am not going to talk to them all day long!  If they aren't bleeding and nothing is broken, they can have at it.  I have a few rules.  Stop means stop, no means no, etc.  No hitting in the head.  No purposely trying to hurt someone.  No kicking.  No spitting.  "You are playing to rough" needs to be honored.

They will be expert team players and negotiators some day.

PS - they sob hysterically when I try to separate them.  When they were really little, when I sent the perpetrator to time out, the other would go and join in a show of solidarity.[/quote]

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