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[quote=Anonymous]Mine are 6 and 9 and have some epic fights. Most of the time they’re fine and play together well, but it can escalate quickly. They’re both pretty dramatic too, so any little thing turns into tears and screaming. They don’t act this way with anyone else ever-it’s absolutely a sibling thing for them.

Separation, immediate consequences for hitting, and making sure they have enough to do (outside time, projects, etc) helps a lot. Age helps too-they’ll get better at conflict resolution and impulse control with age.

With regard to the messes-I’ve found that allowing a certain amount of creative mess curbs the uncontrolled mess. So-it’s ok to let them get out all the sheets and work together to build a fort in a bedroom and move all their stuffies and pillows into it. I’ll let it stay up for a day or two, they may even sleep in it, and then they clean everything up. But they need to ask, and there has to be a point to it (their point doesn’t have to make sense to an adult). Making a mess just to make a mess is not ok and has consequences. [/quote]

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