Siblings without Rivalry
Have you had enough with your kids fighting, arguing and taunting each other? Is your toddler acting out whenever you’re with the baby?
Join this 6 week workshop to reduce conflict, generate goodwill among your children and stop being their referee.
The goal of this workshop is to help you help your children learn how to live together
During each session, you will learn and practice specific skills that help reduce friction and make harmony possible
What we’ll Discuss
Helping Siblings Deal with Their Feelings About Each Other
What happens to brothers and sisters when their hostile feelings about each other are ignored or denied? Four specific methods for helping children express their negative feelings to each other without doing damage
Keeping Children Separate and Unequal but Still be Fair
How siblings react when they are compared to each other – unfavorably or even favorably. Effective alternatives to comparisons. How siblings feel about always being treated equally. Ways to treat children unequally and still be fair
Siblings in Roles
Why brothers and sisters are often cast, and cast each other, into different roles. A look at how powerfully these roles affect their relationships with each other. Skills that free each child to become his or her most whole self
When the Kids Fight
What can you do when fighting breaks out between the children? An exploration of commonly used strategies that backfire. A chance to practice the skills that reduce rage and motivate children to work out their own solutions
Probelm Solving
A method for helping children deal with the problems they can’t work out for themselves. A simple approach that enables adults to sit down with the young combatants so that they can move toward resolving their conflicts
A Final Review
Time to review and consolidate your skills. Exercises give you practice in applying everything you learned to potentially explosive situations. Finally, an opportunity to take a second look at your own adult sibling relationships from your new perspective
You also Get
A copy of the “Siblings without Rivalry” bestselling book by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlisch
A special workbook to practice, write your goals, thoughts and follow your own individual progress
