While reading Chapter 6, Contact with Other Children, I couldn’t help but laugh reading the part about siblings. My two sons are 10 and 4 almost 5 in May, years old. The book says that “constructive conflict with siblings help children recognize each other’s needs, wishes, and point of view, and it helps them learn how to fight, disagree, and compromise within the context of a safe, stable relationship” (Papalia, Martorell, 2015, p.184). Last night, a very vivid memory of a fight between my two boys where one looked like he was about to drop kick the other and the other looked like he was about take a bite out of the others arm didn’t make me think that they would learn any kind of compromise or think that it is a stable relationship. At the
