Siblings Without Rivalry
Siblings Without Rivalry
By Faber, AdeleJoint Author Mazlish, Elaine
If you have more than one child and want to understand the rivalry and bickering and arguing - AND gain insight on useful, practical ways to improve your children's relationship with each other - then read Siblings Without Rivalry. What makes this book so valuable is that the powerful ideas are presented in a very down-to-earth, easy-to-read format that you'll enjoy.
Are you tired of your children fighting over everything big or small? Are your nerves frayed at their ends? Are you spending too much time settling your children's' arguments? Siblings Without Rivalry teaches parents all these different techniques to help children help themselves solve their sibling problems without violence and parental intervention. When investigating the problem of sibling rivalry, the culprit and the root of the problem comes from parents' attitudes toward their children.Are you a parent that has labeled your children? Sometimes parents attach a label to their children without realizing it and the consequences are creating excessive pressure on the children to play a certain roll that they have no desire to but continue to act it out in order not to hurt the parent. Children want to be heard and adults must first learn to listen and acknowledge the children's' feelings.
When children are mad or angry, it is important that we help them describe what they are feeling and let them know that it is alright to be mad, sad, angry or disappointed. However it is not acceptable to hurt the person with whom they are having conflict.
The whole idea of this solution sounds like it was conceived in some
fairy tale but it works about 90 percent of the time to reduce the tension
between the fighting children in our family. After the tensions have subsided
between the siblings, the parents suggest the children find a solution
to
their problem and they actually come up with some creative things.
Faber & Mazlish have integrated numerous real live scenarios they have encountered from parents who have participated in their seminars over several years. Two years ago I purchased a book from the same authors, "How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and How to Listen so Kids Will Talk" which brought a lot of peace and sanity between parents and children. As our family expanded, the conflicts and bickering between siblings started to increase and with the help of Siblings Without Rivalry they are now on the decline. An excellent book that all parents should read.
Siblings Without Rivalry
By Faber, Adele
Joint Author Mazlish, Elaine
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