232 // Listener Questions // When Siblings Won’t Stop Fighting & Finding Balance

In today’s episode we talk about how do deal with your children squabbling repeatedly and what to do when you feel like you just can’t get it together. Know you’re normal and feeling just like everyone else! We share helpful strategies and ideas for handling both situations

Time Stamps

  • 13:42 - How to help our kids have a positive sibling relationship

  • 19:17 - Sibling situation is working out a social dynamic for the real world

  • 21:50 - We learn in families how to read people

  • 21:21 - Emotional Preparing

  • 25:00 - Code words

  • 27:30 - Beware of comparison

  • 31:48 - I feel like I’m drowning

  • 37:43 - Life is a balancing act

  • 40:40 - Be kind to yourself and others

Books & Related Episodes

How to Do The Work // Nicole Le Pera

HOW TO Prepare Children for a New Sibling: a Conversation with Upbringing 

Systems and Values for Easier Days and Stronger Family Connections (Entitlement Trap by Linda Eyre and Richard Eyre)

Understanding Praise and How We Can Use It to Give Our Kids Confidence Instead of Insecurity