Sibling Rivalry! Reviews

*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 ...  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 ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

As a parent of four (2 boys and 2 girls), I have seen sibling rivalry take on all kinds of forms. My two sons when they were young would not go near each other but would happily play with their older sisters yet when they got a bit older one being 12 and the other 10 they would spend all their time together and never consider spending ...  Read the complete review

Sibling rivalry is something that I can speak about from a siblings point of view. I am the eldest daughter of two. My sister is 3 1/2 years younger than me. My poor mum must have been through the wars dealing with us two. I must say though, that all the sibling rivalry problems that occured were due to me. I am 33 years old now, and would like to ...  Read the complete review

I have three girls virtually grown up now and a 12 year old boy. I find the girls get on very well in pairs but not a a threesome generally, with any combination of two of them tending to side almost subconsciously against the third. I have tried to judge for want of a better word what causes the divide but cant seem to actually put it down to ...  Read the complete review

When I was expecting my second child, me and my husband started to worry about how our oldest would respond, given that there is almost a five year age gap between our children, meaning that our oldest had the privilege of being an only child for that time. We did the usual things to prepare him; explained what little babies could do ...  Read the complete review

I have two children - a son and a daughter aged 13 and 14 and only 15 months in age between them, so they have always been very close. When they were very small, and because of the closeness in age, it was hard for us not to compare the two of them - and we found ourselves saying "well by the time C was this age, she was already ...  Read the complete review

I don't think sibling rivalry can be avoided, I don't think it matters what kind of parent you are, all children compete with each other for your attention, think they deserve more than the other, fight with each other and vy for being your favourite, its part and parcel of their immaturity as children and its just part of growing ...  Read the complete review

Many people expect sibling rivaly to subside as children become adults. However for many families (like mine), this is not the case. I am a 32 year old woman with three brothers aged 38, 36 and 23. Although I enjoy a close and almost maternal relationship with my younger brother, he has a very distant and often hostile relationship with ...  Read the complete review

If any one out there has found a sencible way to stop sibling rivalry then please let me know. Me and my brother were born 8 years apart, he is 8 years older than me so we were never very close as children because of the age gap. we never argued or didnt get along but never had anything in comon untill we got older, now we are very ...  Read the complete review

My mum grew up a lonely, only child and swore that she'd never let any child of hers repeat that experience so almost 4 years after my sister was born, I came along. I'm sure until I started to speak, at least, things were the epitomy of domestic bliss, but sooner or later the inevitable happened and my sister and I started to fight like cat and ...  Read the complete review

I have four children and i am the youngest of three children growing up there was a lot of fighting between me my brother and sister how my mum coped I will never know I was a horrid child and used to wind my brother and sister up because in my mums eyes I could do no wrong but she soon saw through me and on several occasions threatned to bang our ...  Read the complete review

Basically I am fed up with my siblings so I found a novel solution to getting on with my life. My dad used to say that the only sibling rivalry that Popeye and me had was who could lie the most and steal the most. That was because Popeye and me colluded against the real enemy, my parents from the time we were about 12. We never fought ...  Read the complete review

I'll warn you now, I've got a cold, so expect me to be snotty in every sense. I've read on this topic from the parents point of view and the elder sister point of view, so here's my younger sister version. It may or may not help parents and other siblings, I'm not sure. I am the younger sister of a brother two ...  Read the complete review

Sibling rivalry can be erradicated very easily, it's so simple it beggars belief, just don't have Children. If my parents had been wise they would have curtailed their indulgence in the baby producing epics and I would have been the third child instead of, third of six. Can you imagine the guilt trip of being a middle child, you ...  Read the complete review

My sister and I are terribly close. There is a five year age difference between us and this opinion seeks to tackle the problems that can arise as a result of a large age gap. It seems to be increasingly uncommon to have such a large age gap between two children (although not if there are more than two) and although we are now both ...  Read the complete review

I used to dream of being an only child when I was young. I am a twin and I have a total of four siblings (three brothers and a sister). I always seemed to be competing for my parents attention when I was growing up, I felt (wrongly, as it turns out) that I was somewhat neglected on the attention front. See, I was the oldest boy, born five ...  Read the complete review