Comments on: Sibling Rivalry Kicks My Ass, or So I Tell 200,000 Friends http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/10/sibling-rivalry-kicks-my-ass-or-so-i-tell-200000-friends/ A San Francisco stay-at-home dad getting the hang of things. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hannelore http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/10/sibling-rivalry-kicks-my-ass-or-so-i-tell-200000-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-10076 Hannelore Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:36:58 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/10/sibling-rivalry-kicks-my-ass-or-so-i-tell-200000-friends/#comment-10076 Sweet article. I laughed very much. It's always good to say to your kids:"I love you both the same." Sweet article. I laughed very much. It’s always good to say to your kids:”I love you both the same.”

]]> By: Nan http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/10/sibling-rivalry-kicks-my-ass-or-so-i-tell-200000-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-10071 Nan Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:54:59 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/10/sibling-rivalry-kicks-my-ass-or-so-i-tell-200000-friends/#comment-10071 Great article! I used to notice that my kids would need to have a cry, and would invent any weird reason to. Seems like Boo does the same thing! Clearly, "How come *I* don't get to vomit?" is not the issue, but she can't communicate the complicated lifechanging stuff. She just needs to throw herself on the floor and have a good cry. And with someone there to help her feel okay about it, it was a GOOD cry. Even my 11-year-old is not immune. He SAYS he is not stressed about the barbaric 11+ exam, so how can he cry about it? Instead, he recently had to invent a sibling issue out of the blue. I was waiting for it, since I could see the stress building, and got into the hammock with him for a long session of tears and hugs. He was so cool afterwards, and I reminded him (and his brothers) that a good cry is a good thing. You can never be too big or macho to cry. Great article! I used to notice that my kids would need to have a cry, and would invent any weird reason to. Seems like Boo does the same thing! Clearly, “How come *I* don’t get to vomit?” is not the issue, but she can’t communicate the complicated lifechanging stuff. She just needs to throw herself on the floor and have a good cry. And with someone there to help her feel okay about it, it was a GOOD cry.

Even my 11-year-old is not immune. He SAYS he is not stressed about the barbaric 11+ exam, so how can he cry about it? Instead, he recently had to invent a sibling issue out of the blue. I was waiting for it, since I could see the stress building, and got into the hammock with him for a long session of tears and hugs. He was so cool afterwards, and I reminded him (and his brothers) that a good cry is a good thing. You can never be too big or macho to cry.

]]>