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I need help getting my 7 YO 4YO daughters to get along and stop the tattling!

Tessa - posted on 10/05/2009 ( 5 moms have responded )

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Tessa - posted on 10/06/2009

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Thank you for all of these tips! I think that also hearing that it is normal is comforting. Its going to be a long couple of years!

--tessa

Eliza - posted on 10/05/2009

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I don't have any kids that age... yet. But I do have 12 siblings... 11 of them younger! I've experienced the whole tattle-tale and the no-getting-along with some of them though. It can be irritating to deal with day after day... but what I started doing was listening... attentively. Then getting excited about what they were tattling about and over react... I'd mimic them dramatically and pretty soon they'd be laughing and see how silly they were acting. It might work. ;)

Tami - posted on 10/05/2009

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Have you tried a tattle phone? When I was a kindergarten teacher assistant we just gave the kids a tattle phone so they could get it off their chest without us teachers having to hear about it. It worked like a charm!

Shawna - posted on 10/05/2009

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When my parents told me and my sister to quit tattling on one another the fighting just got worse we never hit each other but we argued a lot. We still don't get along like our mother wants us to but you should know that it was ok for us to fight with each other and pick on each other but it was not ok for others to do that. The way my mother puts it we can act like we hate each other but when someone hurts one of us we stand up for each other. Which is what your girls will probably do and no matter how hard you push they will probably still fight. My mother tried everything she even tried tying us together at the wrist for a day and that didn't help. lol. But just know that they really do love each other and when one of them needs the other they will be there for each other. I am 19 and my sister is 18 I don't live at home anymore and when my sister and I see each other we still argue. But I love her and wouldn't not let anybody hurt her a boy just recently did and I am very mad about it and only have not done anything about it cause she has asked me not to.

TNell - posted on 10/05/2009

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I had a chat with my 4yo and 6yo lately that unless someone was hurt, in danger, or blatantly breaking an important rule they shouldn't be telling me. If that continues, I give them the consequence too, or make them deal with it. For example, if my 4yo comes and tells me that her sister is making a mess, I tell her, "well, clean it up!" and have her help...That has cut it down considerably. Unfortionately I don't think it stops until they are older... Good luck and God bless!

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