Siblings Without Rivalry How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

by Faber, Adele; Mazlish, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9780393342215
• ISBN10: 0393342212
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-09
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Already best-selling authorswith How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds tothe battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figureout how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings WithoutRivalry. This wise,groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope withconflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible forchildren to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor andunderstanding-much gained from raising their own children-Faber and Mazlishexplain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to helpchildren channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how totreat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate freshthoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals,this edition also includes a new afterword.

Author Biography

Adele Faber Elaine Mazlish, whose books on communication between adults and children have been translated into more than thirty languages, are the authors of the classic bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk.

Table of Contents

We'd Like to Thank	p. xiii
How This Book Came to Be	p. xv
Authors' Note	p. xxi
Brothers and Sisters-Past and Present	p. 1
Not Till the Bad Feelings Come Out	p. 15
The Perils of Comparisons	p. 51
Equal Is Less	p. 67
Siblings in Roles
If He's "This," Then I'll Be "That"	p. 89
Freeing Children to Change	p. 98
No More Problem Children	p. 111
When the Kids Fight
How to Intervene Helpfully	p. 127
How to Step In So We Can Step Out	p. 146
Helping Children Resolve a Difficult Conflict	p. 148
Making Peace with the Past	p. 179
Afterword	p. 193
Coping with Young Rivals	p. 204
Home Alone	p. 223
More Ways to Encourage Good Feelings Between Brothers and Sisters	p. 231
Brothers and Sisters, After All	p. 241
Additional Reading That May Be Helpful	p. 249
For Further Study	p. 253
Index	p. 255
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