Sibling Rivalry!

*What Is Sibling Rivalry?* Basically, sibling rivalry is defined as being a sort of competition or hostility between brothers and sisters. This can be due to favouritism by parents and other family members or character clashes. But generally, and in my case sibling rivalry is a natural part of growing up. *My Experiences* My review of this topic is going to be about the relationship and rivalry between me and my brother Tom. There is only 18 months between us and we are very different in personality. I am a fairly quiet person and prefer to keep myself to myself whereas Tom is extremely extrovert, loud and outgoing. I am academic, ...  Read the complete review

I am an only child. Consequently, until having my own children, I had only experienced sibling rivalry through an onlookers eyes. My best friend at school was the youngest of three girls, each separated by three years. Her sisters treated her with disdain, refused to communicate with her in school and blamed her for everything that went wrong in the family. Despite this, she adored them, and now they are all in, or approaching, their forties, all three now live over 200 miles from their town of birth, having followed the YOUNGEST to her new home! Their families are close and their children growing up together. Despite watching their rows, I was always ...  Read the complete review

Picture the scene if you will. Boy and girl are happily playing with some toys on the dining room floor. Mum comes in with a drink for each of them and places them on the floor. Mum leaves the room and the boy and girl continue playing. The girl does something that the boy doesn't like. The boy gets angry and purposely knocks over the girls drink. On hearing the commotion the mum returns to the room. The girls heart pounds hard as she hears the door open. The mum's face looks like thunder when she sees the spilt drink. The boy and girl look at each other. The mum shouts and asks who spilt it. The girl looks over at the boy and waits for him to own up. The room is filled ...  Read the complete review

I think that sibling rivalry certainly has a lot to do with the age gap that you have between children and also in these modern times of broken families whether or not both of the siblings sare the same number of parents in the family unit, in a sense I have experienced both types, I had a brothe who was only a couple of years older than me and we lived with my father and step mother (she is the person I consider my mother though as she raise us when our biological mother walked out) however Dad also had another child with her as well however there was a good nine year gap between us. In our family the sibling rivalry was always betwen my brother and me as we ...  Read the complete review

Growing up with four sisters and one brother sibling rivalry never really occurred in our household. From a very young age i was taught and so was the rest of my brothers and sisters to respect and share what we had with one another. We had our up's and downs what family doesn't and sometimes we used to have fall outs between us but that was rare. Whenever it was someones birthday yes i think we all used to get a little jealous in our heads that one of our sisters/brothers was getting all the attention that day and a stack of presents, but we never showed it and spent the day together as a family. Our mum used to get each of us who it wasn't our birthday a tiny ...  Read the complete review