Sibling Fight

My younger sister and I had a fight last Sunday afternoon, just after lunch time. Well, it all started with our nephew, and eventually, the two of us end up fighting.

What happened is that our nephew wanted to return to our house after changing some clothes (he's so wet because of playing). Then my sister was really annoyed and didn't want him to be back. She was teasing him "Dili na ka mubalik" (You're not coming back). Even if our mother was already telling our nephew that he could come back and play again, my sister and our nephew were so noisy arguing. So that's the time I butt in.

I told my sister to shut up and let it be, but she won't. I told her she doesn't have the right to make such decision, and she talked back to me, blah blah blah, and we were the ones arguing now. She ended up locking herself up in our room, crying. At the same time, I ended up crying while putting my son to sleep in our parent's room (since my sister was in our room). I was thinking, both of us don't have the right to make such decisions, because we're just living in our parent's house, it's not really our home, the final say is still from our parents.

So two hours have passed, and my sister and I were not talking with each other. Well, for me, I can live with it, not talking to anyone for one whole day. I'm used to that. But my sister can't. I'm the only one who can understand her, and the one she always ran to everytime she has a problem. So I guess that's the reason why she came to me after that very silent two hours and apologized.

I felt sorry for what happened. I mean, I don't know if it was right for me to get involved with their argument, but I can't stand it if our nephew will end up crying again, and make our brother-in-law mad and blame everything to his son (for being so thick-headed). I don't want him to end up like our niece, Cecil, whose been forbidden to come in house when she was still little, because my sister kept making her cry everytime she's with us. Did I do the right thing? Having a fight with my sister to protect our nephew?

Well, not that I'm not used to it, fighting my sister (i mean). We had fights before ever since I can remember. Sibling fights are inevitable, especially if the you have a very close relationship with your siblings. But the question is, did I have the right reasons to fight over with my siblings? Am I on the right direction to discipline my sister and instill good values? Our mother didn't make a fuss about our fight last Sunday, and just left us alone. Does that mean I was right? I don't really know.