Summer vacation is a time of both joy and frustration for parents at home with children. If you have more than one child, sibling conflict is expected during the long days of summer. If you have more than two children, sibling conflict comes with a pecking order.

How can you help the natural process of sibling conflict so it is doesn’t bring angst and dread to summer vacation?

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Kids begin to respect elders in different situations in many cultures. Kids correct themselves of their actions with gentle rebuke from their parents or elders.  To set and respect boundaries with kids is a gentle way of enabling them to respect elders, to treat them justly and learn to socialize, at the same time sense when pushing limits and to avoid abusing siblings and others.

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We understand kids go through different stages growing up.  Infants, toddlers, young kids, tweens etc. What is interesting is that life made sure that every stage brings some good, bad and ugly for parents to deal with. In the case of father’s the bad things sometimes just becomes disgusting.  Things that men are never supposed to deal with, but as supporting husbands who wants to be involved we sometimes have to get our hands dirty.

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In a more parental approach, sibling rivalry is as common as common cold, no one can deny.

Instilling values at a very young age is like building a house brick by brick. It patterns their way of life and as kids grow as young adults, they cling to it and never prefer to deviate (in adolescent years and even later).

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My middle son who is five had an accident. He cut his pinkie, really bad. We ended up having to run to the emergency room and he needed stitches. Luckily his finger wasn’t broken. We came home and went to bed at 2am. The next morning my oldest, who is 8, was on the computer playing a game, and the 5 year old wanted to play. We told the 8 year old to get off so the 5 year old could play. The 8 year old got VERY upset.

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 Recently I learnt from a local newspaper about a teenager boy who almost killed his brother, reason being sibling rivalry. It is not uncommon to find sibling sabotaged by the older child as a pre-teen. The child wreathes in pain and anguish and besides there is a continual anger and mistrust with his elder. It takes a wise parent to sense the atmosphere ebbing with the kids.

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Children are the greatest gifts to parents. They can also be likened to a seed. As small as they are, they possess the potential of a matured man. They pick up the hint of happiness, grief, jealousy, craziness from the surrounding atmosphere. The mind of a child is like a treasure chest. It can grow old but can never lose the traces of the treasures filled in them.

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