I had a sibling, we didn’t get along all that well, he was the person with whom I got into the most physical fights, and we didn’t hit each other every 5 minutes, or anything remotely within extreme hyperbole range of 5 minutes, at any age I can remember, and I believe not at any age at all. We were kind of far apart in age for that, though… so I have to fall back on the fact neither did anybody else I knew then or now. That is an insane level. You wouldn’t have time to do anything else. And we definitely wouldn’t have done anything like that anywhere where our parents could do anything about it… even though in most cases the correction would have been more like a disapproving remark, only sometimes sharp disapproval, than physical restraint or any kind of punishment.
I don’t think “every 5 minutes” is to be interpreted literally. After all, that would imply the siblings sleep in shifts so that one is always able to hit the other. (Or that they are in a constant boxing match throughout their waking hours to compensate for the lack of hitting during sleep.)
Most days, my children (3 and 5) have periods of the day (usually toward the evening) in which they have exhausted their patience for trying to talk it out and they hit each other at least every five minutes, unless we keep them separated. They also have periods in which they reason, empathise, and negotiate better than many adults I’ve met. The latter periods are rare, but getting more frequent with age.
My wife has been worried about the amount of hitting, so we have talked to child psychologists about it, and they claim it is well within a couple standard deviations. That doesn’t have to mean anything, of course, but the data on this is sparse, as one could imagine.
I had a sibling, we didn’t get along all that well, he was the person with whom I got into the most physical fights, and we didn’t hit each other every 5 minutes, or anything remotely within extreme hyperbole range of 5 minutes, at any age I can remember, and I believe not at any age at all. We were kind of far apart in age for that, though… so I have to fall back on the fact neither did anybody else I knew then or now. That is an insane level. You wouldn’t have time to do anything else. And we definitely wouldn’t have done anything like that anywhere where our parents could do anything about it… even though in most cases the correction would have been more like a disapproving remark, only sometimes sharp disapproval, than physical restraint or any kind of punishment.
I don’t think “every 5 minutes” is to be interpreted literally. After all, that would imply the siblings sleep in shifts so that one is always able to hit the other. (Or that they are in a constant boxing match throughout their waking hours to compensate for the lack of hitting during sleep.)
Most days, my children (3 and 5) have periods of the day (usually toward the evening) in which they have exhausted their patience for trying to talk it out and they hit each other at least every five minutes, unless we keep them separated. They also have periods in which they reason, empathise, and negotiate better than many adults I’ve met. The latter periods are rare, but getting more frequent with age.
My wife has been worried about the amount of hitting, so we have talked to child psychologists about it, and they claim it is well within a couple standard deviations. That doesn’t have to mean anything, of course, but the data on this is sparse, as one could imagine.
Sure, I read every 5 minute as hyperbole. That would be a continuous brawl. Also, lot’s of variation of course.