Raising Concord: The Sibling Squabbling Phase  With all of the
phases children go through the fighting phase has to be the most
frustrating.  It was bound to happen sooner or later. Maybe it
was bad karma for breezing through my friends Facebook posts
with an air of superiority when they posted about their
childrens' endless fighting. Maybe I was just due for some
“real” parenting after so many years of smooth sailing. All I
know is I am knee deep in the dreaded sibling rivalry phase or
as I call it, the “If you two don’t stop fighting I am going to
_________ (insert your favorite threat here)” phase.  I have no
idea why I think any of my lame threats will work when they
obviously haven’t in the past, but sometimes a mom gets so
raging mad that they say the craziest and dumbest things. Why,
just last week I unleashed one of my crazy threats to my kids
and my daughter responded with, “Mom, you know you would never
really do that!” To that I just rolled my eyes and kept quiet.
Parenting 101 tells you never to