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[andrewducker]

This evening, after dinner, Sophia and Gideon played together in their room with only minimal intervention, and are currently sharing some raspberries and blueberries together in a very reasonable way.

This feels very weird. It wasn't very long ago that he basically ignored her, and now they play little games together and have little conversations.

And while we're not claiming responsibility for them being good kids, we clearly haven't broken them too badly.
Original is here on instagram.

Comments

[channelpenguin]

That's great! I know you and your brothers were close as kids, and I know you nevertheless know NOT to assume that all siblings will be. But it seems your kids might :-).

My mother was an only child and NEVER understood why my sister and I didn't really hang out together after the age of about 5, maybe younger. She had wanted a sibling so much and thought we'd automatically be friends.

(Though later, Gils and I at uni were actually a bit closer and ongoing we've found that we are much more similar to each other than to the rest of the world ... Which leads to a decent relationship when we do interact - not often, but I am like that with the rest of the family too)

[andrewducker]

It's entirely possible, too, that they won't be best friends later on. They may grow apart, particularly once either of them get other friends. But for now it's nice that they can at least share some time together.

(Half an hour earlier they'd been arguing over who got to play with which toy, so it's not like they're angelically good or anything)

[channelpenguin]

But kids need to learn to negotiate, so the argument was good too!

[andrewducker]

Oh, definitely! I do think that having a sibling helps with that. Annoying though they can be.

(Although they also learn plenty of that at nursery, which will help a lot too.)