Posted on October 29, 2007 in latest news
Parents are always trying to grapple with the constant nagging and bickering of their children. However, sibling fights are natural and should be taken in the right spirit.
Conflicts between children do not cause permanent rifts between families but they can give parents a tough time. Few suggested tips to manage sibling rivalry are listed below.
Tips to handle toddler fights:
- Separate your children to avoid such conflicts. Organize activities in different rooms and keep them apart till they show an improvement in their behavior.
- Distract them and engage them in different activities if the cannot cooperate with each other.
- Get another kid, maybe your nephew to make them distracted and form a threesome to play or engage with.
- Try involving yourself in their game and break things up before it gets unmanageable.
- If they are fighting over a particular object then keep it away or try teaching them how to play with it.
- Probably it is sleep that is causing them the anxiety and irritation which finally culminates into a fight. So make them go for a nap.
- Give them time to cool off by making them watch a family movie or any religious story that delivers moral lessons.
- Threaten to call the other parent for greater consequences or punishments to follow.
- Put them on a restriction or cancel an outing or gifts they were looking forward to.
Don’t lose your calm. Just remind yourself that kids at this age do not have the skills for group play. It is the parents responsibility to instill the seeds of togetherness and harmony in them and it is for them to explain that fighting and hitting is a bad habit.
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