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Quote From: moose18

I'm not a parent, but when I was a kid my sister and I fought a lot more than we do now. If would even lead to fistfights. My parents would break up the physical fights, but most of the time they let us work it out. Stuff that did not work was when my parents forced my sister and I to forgive each other, or when we were punished by having stuff removed from our rooms. I think that kind of punishment has no relation to the actual fighting, so it shouldn't be used. I think you should organize a long period of time that you can have a conversation with your daughters about some of the issues they're having. Don't force anything, but stop them if they start fighting. Now that my sister and I are older, we don't fight very much; probably because we understand each other more.