Most parents with infants will attest to the fact that the one constant in the home are sibling fights. One minute the children are playing peacefully, and the next they are involved in a world-war-two-like fight. Not only do these battles give you a headache, but they could also harm their special relationship.
I remember an aunt of mine whose solution to sibling fights was to give each one of us a kiboko or stick, so that the stronger one wins and the boundaries are set. Looking back on those incidents, I believe that it could potentially have become a fatal way of dealing with the situation.
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