Fight Club

Sophia (7) and Phoebe (6) have been fighting really bad the last month or so. Reaching the end of our rope as parents and sick of the yelling, we said to heck with it! When they started in on each other we ignored it, and even if hitting started, we ignored it. Then it escalated to full on girl cat fight yesterday, and we let it happen. We didn't have to get involved and when the "fight" was over they were done and walked away and we had no more problems the rest of the night. Today the same thing happened. Phoebe started hitting, I let it continue. They got into another horrible cat fight and Sophia practically has a black eye to show for it (Phoebe can THROW DOWN, it's kinda scary). Once the fight was over the 3 of us had a good talk and I think they realize this hitting thing isn't so great. Time will tell if letting them smack the crap out of each other has taught them that talking it out or walking away are the better choices. *heavy sigh*

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  1. AdrianDecember 8, 2013 at 11:29 PM

    Good for you for letting them fight it out. Hopefully it will work and they'll figure out that talking is less painful.

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  2. AdrianDecember 8, 2013 at 11:32 PM

    Although if they don't, I guess they will learn to fight... which may also be a useful skill someday.

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