High Noon: In Defense Of Bickering

My son and daughter like to bicker with each other. It’s always been a mild form of pestering, poking and finger pointing. Kind of like how Congress works with each other. So, it hasn’t been the quality of the bickering that was wearing me down, but rather the sheer quantity of it. I was just plain tired of hearing them constantly pick at each other over every little inane thing. And I let it get to me. I turned their bickering into anger and stress, and they couldn’t understand why I was getting so mad for what was really rather innocuous behavior on their part. One day a few weeks ago, I read an article in Newsweek magazine titled “In Defense of Bickering” , and all sorts of lightbulbs went off in my head. Just like that, I was a changed dad/ Idaho Dad , A Family Runs Through It. More here .

Question: Did you bicker with your siblings?