Disscuss: Parental response

All the articles deal at some point with the concept of parenthood and the parents’ reactions when sibling rivalry is concerned. When discussing the parental response, you can focus separately on what each author says. After analysing all the articles, we have come up with two different types of responses from parents:

The latent response - it implies that parents choose to disregard feuds between children, believing that such events are part of a social norm, a common childhood experience, a “harmless rite of passage” (O'Connor, ll. 15-16).

The active response - it implies that parents display an obvious response when dealing with feuds between their children, a response that is not necessari…

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But how should parents respond?

When writing your essay, you should consider the different opinions and decide what you think about the topic.

In this instance, you could ask yourself the following questions to find your own voice:

• Which type of response is better: the lat…