How do you deal with your children who fights with each other?

@blinjk (617)
United States
September 2, 2012 12:51pm CST
In a family,some of the children always fight each other.As a parent, we must do something to stop it.There are lots of ways that parents will do.Some talks to them and ask questions about what they are fighting for just to determine who is the one who started it.Some punish them both.How about you guys? What will do when your children fights with each other?
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@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
4 Sep 12
I usually just ask them to go to different directions and not to play together. But if they fight more than the usual, like they started hitting each other, that is the time that I get really mad. I scold both of them and tell them that more than anybody else in the world, they should love each other always. I tell them that no other person aside from their family could love them more than their siblings do. There is no amount of love that siblings can give compared to friends or other people.
• India
3 Sep 12
Hi friend, i have 2 kids and they are fighting with each other frequently. We try our maximum to stop their fights and suggest them to avoid this kind of activities. I will give toys to them to avoid fighting, my kids start to play with them and forget about their fights
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
2 Sep 12
When my kids are smaller, they don't fight a lot. But now that they've grown up, they fight like world war 3 (lols) Since they only fight normally- I leave them to fight (they're not going to kill each other anyway) And after a while, they're all fine again.
@fatlex06 (895)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
I don't have any children yet but I have the power to punish my niece and nephew every time they fight. If I hear them fighting, I'll call them both and ask what happened. If I knew that both of them has a fault in the circumstance that they fight, I will let them face the wall for 10 minutes. After that, I will let them say sorry to each other and hug each other. By that, I noticed that the fights that they have had minimized. For real. I don't know if it will work in other children. But, there's no harm in trying. And I believe that oneself should not punish a child physically. :)