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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an only and he doesn’t act like this at all.  Because we don’t allow that behavior.  Meanwhile I know plenty of kids with siblings who kick, punch, yell at and throw things.  Because their parents don’t do anything to mitigate that behavior. [/quote]

PP here, I am one of three kids and my older brother was a nightmare and terrorized me and my younger brother.  Hittin, kicking, throwing things, etc.  My parents didn’t do anything to change that behavior, and it followed him into adulthood.  Guess which two siblings still talk to each other?[/quote]

+1 the most difficult and violent kid I know is the oldest of three who has rage and control issues and is constantly terrorizing her younger siblings as well as my kid because she really struggles to manage her emotions especially around jealousy and competition (she also may have ADHD or similar though I'm not a professional so I don't know -- I just know what I see).

TBH I do judge her parents sometimes and partly because they decided to have two more kids knowing she is like this and I think actually they could have spent more time addressing what are obviously serious issues with her but they wanted to have other kids and now they give those kids a lot more positive attention which only makes the behavior of the eldest worse because she's constantly negatively compared to her younger siblings.

Poor behavior in kids has little if anything to do with number of siblings in my experiencem. It's specific to the child's personality combined with how well the parents meet that specific child's need for guidance and attention and behavioral correction.[/quote]

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