My kids hate each other—and I'm afraid that will never change 😢
that rather than it being more difficult, the addition of my youngest made my life so much easier. She was a built-in playmate. The kids did everything together, from playing with their dolls to ganging up on me. For years, they were everything to each other, total BFFs with no sibling rivalry in sight.
I can’t say that there’s an exact date when this all started to go downhill. But for the past few years, ever since they were around five and eight years old,At this point, they can’t be in the same room together. They can’t even. Literally. Right now, I’m sitting poolside on a holiday in Alaska with one child. In November, I’ll be taking the other to New York. I’m devastated when I see other family photos on social media, families holding hands and smiling.
When they’re apart, my daughters are delicious. They’re intelligent, they’re kind, they’re empathetic and they are so much fun. But from the hours of 3 to 8 p.m. every day, when they don’t haveand are stuck together, they’re miserable. It starts as soon as they enter the car post-school. And then we get home. One child will start singing, to the horror of the other ; or maybe one will talk too loudly, will practice the piano badly, will leave a door open that should be shut… There’s literally no end to the complaints about each other.escalates into hittingOne therapist I spoke with suggested I only intervene when I thought they’d get hurt. That failed.
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