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Covered in this Video:
- How to raise siblings who are friends
- Giving kids the tools they need to work out their arguments themselves
This Week’s Practice
- Role play or practice the skills kids need during conflict–BEFORE they are in a fight.
- Script your change: What is one small thing you’ll do differently the next time your kids are fighting? (e.g., What will you do to remain calm? Or will you ask your kids to state the problem and their feelings? etc.)
Join the Discussion
What is a common conflict your kids can role play resolving, before they are bickering about it again? How do you plan to script change for the next conflict in your house?
Suggested Reading This Week
Raising Happiness, pp. 25-29.
10 Steps to Peace handout
Weekly Thought
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.”– Pamela Dugdale
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” –Clara Ortega