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How do I handle ten month old twins seeming aggresion towards oneanother?

Adrienne - posted on 06/22/2011 ( 4 moms have responded )

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My ten month old boy girl twins often pull each others hair, poke at one another's faces, and do other things that hurt their sibling. Of course I know this is normal and that I am never going to be able to stop them from fighting but I am searching for a way to start teaching them boundaries. Right now when one pulls the other's hair I say firmly "Ouch, no hair pulling" then I pick up the hurt baby and pay little attention to the offender. This doesn't seem to be doing any good. Right now my son will look at me, reach for his sister's hair, make sure I am looking, then give her hair a good hard tug. When she screams he goes after her again, giggling. What have you done to help tamp down this type of behavior? Thanks.

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Nicole - posted on 07/14/2011

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well my girls r now a year old and still fight. Paige will pull her sisters hair and once Serenity cries paige kisses her head and rubs it. i tell them to be nice and then they rub eachothers backs but 5 min later they r taking toys or hitting eachother. i have learned to just step in when it gets to bad, and to tell them all the time to be nice.

Stacie - posted on 07/01/2011

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i think it's just a sibling thing and to keep doing what you are doing. my boys do stuff like that to each other all the time and it never bothers them that the other one is crying. we had one of the boys today bump heads with a younger kid a gymnastics class and felt really bad that he hurt the other kid. if it had been his brother it wouldn't of bothered him at all.

Glynda - posted on 06/25/2011

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I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM THE MORE I TELL THEM TO BE NIICE THE MORE THEY BEAT UP EACH OTHER I JUST FIGURED THEY WILL WORK IT OUT THERSELVES AT TIMES AND THEN IT'S TIMES THAT I HAVE TO STEP IN....

Kim - posted on 06/22/2011

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It's normal! My boys used to bite each other. I stopped that by teaching them not to bite, but to kiss instead and be nice. They don't kiss each other, but they started to bite me too. So the biting has stopped, but they still get a little rowdy but they are also older. My boys hurt each other and laugh sometimes. Depends on what kind of mood they are in. Obviously if they are cranky they don't want to be bothered. But I would keep telling them that it's not nice to do and reinforce a different positive behavior!

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