Of Sibling Spats And Bonding Through Bickering

Siblings squabble, whether more or less! It’s inevitable, and it’s a rare day when a parent of more than one child, with not too much age difference between them, isn’t bombarded with high-pitched complaints and treated to an unearthly rumpus because one child is bugging the other and the other either retaliates or yowls for Mama (or, like my son, sagaciously does both). My brother teased me unstintingly when I was little, whether by pulling my braid, inventing stories featuring him as the he...