What age should sibling rivalry stop?
The other posters have given you good advice about dealing with your daughter’s very natural jealousy of her little sister. I want to add that often, sibling rivalry doesn’t stop, but it doesn’t have to tear a family apart. My oldest two boys are two years apart, and the middle two are three years apart. Depending on the day (or depending on the minute), they are either best friends or worst enemies (they are all teenagers now). There are times when they tell me that they wish their other brothers had never been born and that they never want anything to do with them ever again; then other times, I hear them talking to each other late into the night, or playing video games happily for hours. A 7 year old doesn’t have the language or emotional capability of dealing with the strong feelings she is experiencing about her sister. She does love her, but a 3 year old is incredibly annoying and frustrating, too. You can empathize with her (I know you’re angry that Susie ripped your favorite bo
