“Help! My kids just fight like cats and dogs. They drive each other nuts (and me too) and I don’t know what to dooooooo”
Don’t worry, friend. I got you.
Sibling conflict is unavoidable. There is no mythical “perfect age gap” that prevents it and as a result of reading this will not miraculously go away. That said, as with all things in parenting, there are things we can do that can:
Help reduce avoidable sibling conflicts
Help reframe sibling conflict into learning opportunities
Help reduce the potential long term relational affects of sibling conflict
And wouldn’t life be a whole lot better if we could [at LEAST] do that?
So in an effort to keep my weekly to less than a length of a book chapter, let’s just jump into it.
Here are my three rules to raise good siblings.
