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Why Your Kid Is Such a Tattletale
There’s a developmental reason behind children’s obsession with rules.
Credit.Melissa Mathieson
April 28, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET
My older daughter is obsessed with the truth. Talking to her sometimes feels like being cross-examined by the world’s smallest and cutest litigator. Once I described something as “snobby” within her earshot and she hit me with a barrage of questions, “Why is it snobby? What did you mean by that? Why did you say it if you didn’t really mean it?” Until she broke me and I told her exactly why I had said it (because something was very expensive and I was being judgmental and a little rude).
The Psychology Behind Sibling Rivalry
You can’t avoid fighting. You can only hope to contain it.
Credit.JooHee Yoon
Published Jan. 13, 2021Updated Jan. 14, 2021
My 4- and 8-year-old are closer now than they were before the pandemic I hear the sounds of giggling wafting from their bedroom several times a night. But the more time my girls spend together, the more they fight, too.
The most common battlegrounds for my kids are perceived injustices and jockeying for position. The most absurd instance of the latter was when we were waiting to get flu shots this past fall. The girls got into a brawl over who received the first shot. My older daughter “won” that argument, but it was only as she was walking toward the pharmacist’s door that she realized a shot was not actually a prize.