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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They fight with each other
They fight for your attention
They fight over who gets in or out of the car first
One or the other is always taking off when you're trying to shop for groceries or socks or whatever
They won't both eat the same food on the same day
Etc etc etc[/quote]

And it's not just the toddler years! My kids are 5 and 8 and still do this!

To add another factor: my firstborn was, is and will always be a more demanding, difficult child than #2. I thought having kids 3 years apart would be easy but it was still really really difficult in the beginning for all the reasons already stated but also with a demanding, high strung child.  My point is that a child's personality can also add to stress. And you may have an easy one now but you never know what you could get with child #2.[/quote]

I wonder what the best spacing is - for reducing friction such as this - I had mine close together (22 months) but I was amazed when I was telling another mom that my boys were acting up and she said her two children drove her crazy with the bickering too.  I was amazed because she had a 9 year old boy and 17 year old girl!!!!!!!!!  So maybe there is no magic spacing.  My boys are getting along well for the most part, say 70% of the time! :)[/quote]

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