“Being in constant competition for parental attention”. A major cause to sibling rivalry.

It can be observed that parents of two children are usually fed up with their children’s arguments about silly things.

One of the main reasons for this is that the competition among the children for the attention of the parents.

A three-year-old child paints a beautiful picture in the day-care center and the mother praised them for it and now the older sibling is threatening to tear it up. Why? It’s not because the older sibling is the younger one’s enemy, it’s just because they’re jealous of the praise.
That feeling of jealousy that a child begins to feel, especially in their teens, when a child feels the need for parental attention the most and then, when compared to their younger sibling, becomes irritable and begins to flare up their temper judging the younger siblings, leading to a lifelong rivalry between the siblings. This is an important point for parents, because both the child needs the same attention and the parents undoubtedly do it to the fullest. It’s just that the teenage child needs a different kind of attention, because that’s the age of a child’s modulation, that’s the age of a child’s life direction. And the right way of caring for the child at this age can be done , with a proper conversation between the parents and the teenage child , which will make them feel a little more important in the home and in front of their parents.

Shriya Gautam.🧡

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