Created with Sketch. For most parents, sibling conflict is just an additional and unnecessary source of family stress. Yet, fighting is not a sign of siblings not getting along. It is how they get ...

Nah, it’s not a big deal. Let’s play ... wind up in the same shared bedroom at the end of the day. This makes sibling fighting a paradoxically low-stakes habit, and that means all kinds ...

Siblings between the ages of 4 and 8 can have ... were able to better manage their emotions when their kids were fighting. They also reported being better able to coordinate and communicate ...

The Dad got annoyed at first but seemed to give up fighting ... birth or not. They understood that the parents’ safety was worth their involvement. If you are in a family with step-siblings ...