Teenage siblings fight for many reasons. Here are just a few that made my top ten reasons why. Hope you enjoy! (:
10. They spend too much time together. Some siblings are extremely close and spend a lot of time together. Naturally, they’re going to get to a point where they’re just going to need some space. If you spend too much time with anybody for too long, you’re bond to clash heads and get into and argument eventually. The best thing to do is just give each other space to cool off for a bit.
9. Frustration. Sometimes, the sibling that the person picked a fight with didn’t even do anything wrong. If that person had a particularly stressful day then came home, ready to break, any little thing could set them off. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s a sibling and they end up getting into a fight. The best thing to do, is just walk away when you can tell that another sibling is frustrated and just wants to be left alone.
8. Taking their stuff without permission. I know that when my brothers go into my room and take something without asking me first, I get a little agitated. Especially because I’m a very private person and I don’t like it when people go into my room. A lot of people are like that so if someone does take something of theirs without asking first, they get mad. This could end in a huge fight over possessions.
7. Competition. Siblings like to have contests to see who’s the fastest, strongest and so on. These competitions could potentially end in a fight because someone thinks that the other cheated in some way or something of that nature. It seems to happen especially often when siblings are playing video games together. Somehow, someone always cheats.
6. Pressure. Say you have a family where every sibling has played basketball and each and every one of them started as the shooting guard every year that they’re played. If there’s a younger sibling who doesn’t like basketball or just isn’t good at it, they might feel like they’re going to let everybody in their family down. There’s that pressure they feel to live up to their siblings that they might lash out at them because of it. They might blame them for being so good and for setting the standards so high.
5. Jealousy. Sometimes, the big green monster just wants to come out and play. Jealousy is a natural thing to feel when somebody has something that you want. Especially if it’s a sibling. If they just got the game that you’ve been wanted for the past month, you may be a little upset and take it out on them because they have the game.
4. Hormones. Teenagers have hormones. What more is there to say. One second they’ll be best friends with their sibling and the next second they’ll be jumping down their throat because they dropped chip in their bed. It’s a natural thing that you can’t control, yet starts a lot of fights.
3. Personality clashes. Some siblings are just so different that they just don’t get along with each other. They may just not know how to meet halfway and how to get along with somebody that is so different. They may feel as if they aren’t meant to get along so they’re not even going to try to.
2. Parental favoritism. Even if they’re just imagining it, most of the time, a child feels like a parent favors a certain sibling over them. It could be as simple as the parent will let one sibling stay up later than the other one. To the one that has to go to bed earlier, the parent favors the one that gets to stay up later. This causes resentment towards that sibling which could cause a fight to break out.
1. Inequality. Now this is something I know quite a bit about. Being the only girl in the family, I get treated pretty unequally. When my brothers were my age they had a LOT more freedom than I do now. My parents excuse? I’m a girl and they’re boys. If a child feels like they are being treated unfairly compared to a sibling, then resentment builds up and the siblings end up fighting.
So there you go! Here’s my top ten list for why teenage siblings fight!
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