raising a 5 yr old girl and a 2 yr old girl would seem to be something i can relate to since I am a girl and had an older sister. My mom and dad raised us, and we are about the same yrs apart as my own girls. Whenever they cry, whine, complain, fight, get in trouble, I try to put myself in their shoes and imagine how I was at their age. I truely wish I could convey to them how silly and unimportant it is to fight over a piece of plastic, or how wrong it is to hit or push one another. "Just walk away from her" is what I seem to say some of the time. "leave her alone"..or "just play separately for a while". But apparently they would rather keep screaming until they have won. I mean, why shouldn't it be so easy for them to just play nicely. They do have dozens of toys between them. Why all the frustration?