Rivalry In Family

Family is the most precious section of each person’s life. Different cultures and different nationalities have various points of views for the importance of family in person’s life. I grew up in Armenia in Christian family, and I was always taught to appreciate and conceive my family and family members. Since I was a little child, my parents persuade my older sister, my brother, and me that family always comes first in every situation. Having a big family can be joyful and gainful, but at the same time it can be very challenging. Because if there are more people in the family, it means that you have to deal with people that have various personalities and points of views. If you want to have a big and happy family, you have to have a lot of siblings. If you have siblings it is mostly impossible to not have conflicts with them. Despite the age difference between siblings, they all at least at one point of their life have faced rivalry. “Sibling rivalry is so common that we would have to regard it as normal,” says Dr. Richard Wolfson, who is a psychologist and an expert on family relationships (2, 14:1). Conflicts between siblings can be really bad and disturbing. However, parents and family members can help siblings to solve and settle their problems. Parents interfere between siblings fighting can help or hash the process of solving it. By getting a correct and educated path from their parents, siblings can tighten their relationships and straighten the bonds between their brothers and sisters.
Preparing a child before his or her sibling will born is one of the most important and sensible steps that parents can take when they are expecting a new baby in the family. When you have only one kid in the house, you give all your att...

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...young children, teenagers are more grown-up and can understand the importance of having siblings. The rivalry in teenage children can arise because of comparison and jealousy. It is perfectly normal for teenage brothers and sisters to try to compare with each other. For the girls, the fighting can be over clothing, make up, friends, and maybe even boys. The younger sibling will most likely try to copy the older sister by wearing the same color or style of clothes as the older sister. This of course will upset the older sister. However, psychologists say that these kinds of conflicts are normal between teenage sisters. These kinds of conflicts can even strengthen the relationships between two sisters. They can start telling each other secrets, sharing clothes, and become an inseparable friends.
The conflicts between boys siblings are differ from girl’s conflicts.